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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?

At the end of the semester we are exhibiting 45 sound artistic positions of students at the whole sound department of Bauhaus University. The exhibition starts with a vernissage on 10th of July 2025 in front of Marienstraße 5 in Weimar. The exhibition spans different spaces and formats – from immersive multi-channel compositions, sound sculptures and reflective listening stations to interventions in public spaces and radio broadcasts.

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.

In the third “Sonic Talk” of the Semester on 24th of June, Kathy Kennedy will present her work with singers and radio. These works feature improvisation, vocal exploration and team building.

In the second “Sonic Talk” of the Semester, Florencia Curci and Tatiana Heuman will present their artistic research project “Siestaria”. It revolves around listening as a method for accessing transitional states between sleep and wakefulness, and for reimagining rest and dreaming as ways of resisting the logics of urgency and optimization.

The renowned neuroscientist Wolf Singer will be a guest at the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at 7 pm. With his public lecture on ‘Oscillations, waves and interference as the lingua franca of the cerebral cortex’, he will open the new lecture series ‘Sonic Talks’, which will focus on rhythm, sound and healing in the 2025 summer semester.

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.