Sonic Talks is a lecture and presentation series at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, hosted jointly by the Professorships of Experimental Radio and Acoustic Ecologies & Sound Studies, frequently in cooperation with Media Theory and History of Science. The series brings artists, composers, and researchers to Weimar to share their practice and thinking across sound, listening, and radio understood as expanded, ecological, and more-than-human fields.
This page documents past editions.
Summer Semester 2026
Curtis Roads & Brian O'Reilly — opening the summer semester, composer and researcher Curtis Roads appeared alongside video artist Brian O'Reilly, presenting work at the intersection of granular and microsound synthesis and audiovisual practice (Point Line Cloud).
Kate Donovan — "Conglomerate Bodies of Radio" — artist and researcher Kate Donovan drew together several strands of her work, moving beyond conventional ideas of broadcasting and reception to unfold radio as a collective, relational, and ecological practice.
Winter Semester 2025/26
Prof. David Howes — "Sensory Studies 2026: Sensorial Revolutions in the Design Arts" — anthropologist and legal scholar David Howes (Concordia University, Montréal) spoke on the field of sensory studies, focusing on how perception, design, and social practices transform one another. Held in cooperation with Media Theory and History of Science, in connection with the Real.Sense.Lab.
