Muzofil Association

Contemporary Saltworking

Lecture

The Muzofil Association presents contemporary saltworking as practised at salt field N19 in the Lera area. The contribution focuses on current salt production practices and an understanding of seasonal labour within the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park.

The presentation includes a screening of the short experimental documentary film SALTforSALT by Hana Vodeb, offering insight into the working processes and conditions of contemporary saltmaking. The event concludes with a poetic performative eavesdropping surprise, prepared in collaboration with the association at the initiative of the Cona Institute.

The Muzofil Association presents contemporary saltworking as practised at salt field N19 in the Lera area. The contribution focuses on current salt production practices and an understanding of seasonal labour within the Sečovlje Salina Nature Park.

The presentation includes a screening of the short experimental documentary film SALTforSALT by Hana Vodeb, offering insight into the working processes and conditions of contemporary saltmaking. The event concludes with a poetic performative eavesdropping surprise, prepared in collaboration with the association at the initiative of the Cona Institute.

Muzofil Association

A voluntary, non-profit and independent association of individuals united by an interest in musical creativity and research. It operates across culture, humanities, arts, social sciences and other music-related fields, fostering the development of musical awareness among individuals and communities.

Authors: Muzofil Association
Photo: Matej Tomažin

YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN

Peripatetic lecture
Sounding in Silence: Non-verbal Sound Games in the Rhythm of Opposites and Contradictions

Sounding in Silence: Non-verbal Sound Games in the Rhythm of Opposites and Contradictions

A peripatetic lecture explores intentionality, rhythm and the paradox of experiencing sound and silence while walking.

Discussion
The Slovenian Reception of John Cage – Meaningful Silence

The Slovenian Reception of John Cage – Meaningful Silence

The lecture traces the ambivalent reception of John Cage in post-war Slovenian music and his resonance in alternative and interdisciplinary practices.

Discussion
The Culture of Listening

The Culture of Listening

A conceptual walk from physics and psychoacoustics to sound ecology addresses noise, the right to silence and the social responsibility of listening.

Discussion
Ethnography of Silence(s)

Ethnography of Silence(s)

Drawing on ethnographic research into exodus, memory and belief, the lecture examines silence through power, trauma, resistance and collective identity.

Performative Lecture Keynote
no signal

no signal

A performative lecture uses sound, poetry and text-scores to rethink “no signal” as an opening for hearing silence and the silenced differently.

Keynote speech
(De)coloniality of Sensing

(De)coloniality of Sensing

The coloniality of perception shapes the world, while artistic practices dismantle it through decolonial experience.

Lecture
Screaming Air

Screaming Air

A performative lecture exploring the sonic intrusion of cicadas as a signal of climatic, perceptual and cultural shifts.

Discussion
When the unspeakable is brought to light …

When the unspeakable is brought to light …

Dark soundscapes reveal overlooked urban relations, exclusions and ecopolitical tensions.

Lecture
Beyond the Audible

Beyond the Audible

A performative lecture exploring vibroscapes, ecotremology and modes of listening beyond audible sound.

Discussion
Walking-with the Saltworks

Walking-with the Saltworks

Salt-making reveals human–element cohabitation through walking, listening and crystallisation.