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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.

Das Medea Lab der Universität Malmö ist ein transdisziplinäres Kollektiv von Forschenden und Künstler*innen, die sich durch Experimente, Installationen und Interventionen mit kulturellen und gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen auseinandersetzen. Die aktuellen Projekte beschäftigen sich mit Themen wie interstellarer Weltraumforschung, künstlicher Kreativität, der Politik des Zuhörens, Hauntologie, kollaborativem Songwriting und transmedialem Geschichtenerzählen.