Projects & Research

Radio.Earth.Weimar

Radio Weimar is an ongoing teaching, mediation and artistic research collaboration by Kerstin Ergenzinger and Udo Noll (radio.earth & radio.aporee), connecting students and staff of the Bauhaus University Weimar's sound department with the international, participatory radio art project radio.earth. Through solar-powered listening stations and mobile units, the project explores attentive, long-term listening as a way to experience local environments, ecological relationships, and the lives of fellow beings — sparking conversation, awareness, and exchange across communities and disciplines.

Here are highlights of projects and research conducted at the chair of Acoustic Ecologies and Sound Studies.

Irrational Numbers: Sonification and Intervention

ALOGOS is an ongoing research and compositional project on the sonification of irrational numbers and the politics of the unmeasurable. The Greek alogos names a double meaning: "without ratio" and "unspeakable." When the Pythagoreans discovered that the diagonal of the unit square cannot be expressed as a ratio of whole numbers, incommensurability entered the world as both a mathematical fact and a political problem — a wound in the order of measure that, according to legend, cost Hippasus his life and was bound under a vow of secrecy.

Sonic Tuesdays

Sonic Tuesdays is a weekly programme of listening, encounter, and collective inquiry hosted at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Each session takes a different form: extended listening evenings, artist conversations, open workshops, radio art, and collaborative performances. The series runs across the summer semester, drawing together guests, students, and practitioners from music, sound art, and acoustic research. Free and open to all.