Sonic Tuesdays
Sonic Tuesdays is the Klanglabor's ongoing evening series at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar — a regular gathering point for listening, performing, presenting, and thinking together through sound. The series runs across each semester, hosted in the Klanglabor (Marienstraße 5, Weimar) and equipped with a multichannel Genelec system. What holds the programme together is the room, the sound system, and an audience that comes to listen carefully; what varies is the form. Across a semester, sessions might take the shape of concerts, multichannel diffusions, extended listening evenings, lecture-performances, radio pieces, open workshops, artist conversations, or experimental formats that don't yet have a name.
The series is programmed jointly by the professorships of Acoustic Ecologies and Sound Studies and Experimental Radio, with regular collaboration from the campus radio Flurfunk and from colleagues across the wider sound community at the university. Two evenings each semester are reserved for student-led contributions through an open call, opening the curation to proposals from across the Bauhaus-Universität.
The summer semester 2026 programme has so far included a "Wetlands" evening with Lefteris Krysalis and Miga; a long listening evening on Parmegiani and Xenakis; Radio of War, Radio of Peace, drawing on talks and radio-art productions from the Tactus Festival 2025; a concert and open workshop with Curtis Roads, accompanied by Brian O'Riley; a presentation of audio walks; and an evening with Kate Donovan. Upcoming sessions include a Doepfer modular synthesis workshop (26 May), Audio Investigations and the Politics of Listening (2 June), the !RRATIONALE / ALOGOS — Procession of the Unutterable intervention developed for the !RRATIONALE festival (9 June), and two student-programmed evenings on 23 June and 7 July. The semester closes around the Summaery (9–12 July) with a mini sound-festival in collaboration with Flurfunk and the Strömungen / Currents programme. Earlier editions of the series have hosted, among others, the talk-performance Oto Aulos by Marcin Pietruszewski and Lukas De Clerck.
All sessions are free and open to all.
