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In autumn and winter 2024/25, the KoosMic permanent listening station was established on the island of Koos near Greifswald, in a coastal peatland area managed by the Michael Succow Foundation and scientifically monitored by the Greifswald Mire Centre. The station was initiated by Udo Noll and set up together with students from the Department of Acoustic Ecologies and Sound Studies, Bauhaus University Weimar under the professorship of Kerstin Ergenzinger.

Sonic Ecologies is a sonic and performative platform presenting a collaborative concert that investigates the ecological, generative, and disruptive dimensions of listening. In the interplay between sound, body, and environment unfolds a speculative rehearsal for more attuned modes of being: listening as a practice of transformation, negotiation, and care. How many voices can we truly attend to at once? What new patterns emerge when we shift how—and with what—we listen?

Zum Ende des Semesters präsentiert der gesamte Sound-Bereich der Bauhaus-Universität 45 klangkünstlerische Positionen von Studierenden. Die Ausstellung beginnt mit einer Vernissage am 10. Juli 2025 vor der Marienstraße 5 in Weimar. Die Ausstellung erstreckt sich über unterschiedliche Räumen und Formate – von immersiven Mehrkanalkompositionen, Klangskulpturen, reflektierenden Hörstationen bis hin zu Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum und Radiosendungen.

Flow Follows Concrete Follows Flow, a sound piece for public space unfolding as a walk across Weimar. Available via the Echoes.app - Plattform.
Through sound maps, graphic notations, installations, and subtle interventions, we explored how the city flows, reflects, and responds to presence.
We invite you to walk with us, following Weimar’s threads of water—along narrow lines between the visible and the hidden, the infrastructural and the perceptual. Pull the thread. Leave a trace.

Im dritten „Sonic Talk“ des Semesters am 24. Juni präsentiert die Klangkünstlerin Kathy Kennedy ihre Arbeiten mit Sänger*innen und Radio. Im Zentrum ihrer Praxis stehen Improvisation, vokale Erkundung und kollektives Musizieren.

Beim zweiten »Sonic Talk« des Semesters am Dienstag, 10. Juni 2025, 19 Uhr, stellen Florencia Curci und Tatiana Heuman ihr fortlaufendes künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt »Siestaria« vor. Darin sind Ruhe, Träumen und Zuhören Möglichkeiten des Widerstands gegen die Logik der Dringlichkeit und Optimierung. Sie erkunden in einer angeleiteten kollektiven Siesta rhythmische Formen der Ruhe.

Der renommierte Neurowissenschaftler Wolf Singer ist am Dienstag, 27. Mai 2025, 19 Uhr, zu Gast an der Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Mit seinem öffentlichen Vortrag über »Oszillationen, Wellen und Interferenzen als Lingua Franca der Großhirnrinde« eröffnet er die neue Vorlesungsreihe »Sonic Talks«, die sich im Sommersemester 2025 mit Rhythmus, Klang und Heilung beschäftigt.

Klanglabor Marienstraße 5: 11.12.2024 19h

The event focuses on the methods of digital sound synthesis based on auditory distortion products, often called combination tones. The lecture discusses these synthesis methods' historical and technological contexts, while the concert demonstrates their aesthetic extension.

The performance lecture will provide an engaging talk around speculative research processes and their application to the field of plant bioacoustics. One enters into a sonic interactive relation, by humans with non-human beings (plant life), activated through acousmatic wave signals emitted by plants to create electronic patterns of sounds composed by humans and emitted by machines. Plants emit sound waves at relatively low frequencies of 50–120 Hz. Experimenting with patching and modulation by tracking these sonic lines of data can indeed lead to a unique sonic experiences that tap into the universe’s musicology.

A participatory workshop-performance inspired by Hildegard von Bingen, which explores the figure of the “singing herbalist”, and the correlation between voice-work, self-expression and the practice of Herbalism. Combining experimental voice and breathing techniques with the holistic root principles of herbal medicine, this workshop aims to help anyone who would like to be assisted by herbs on their path to finding their voice, whether for singing or speaking their truth. No previous knowledge of the voice or of herbs is required.