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A participatory art and radio project centered on the ecological crisis and its perception

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.

Research visit from Malmö University's Medea Lab