Listening Room

PROGRAMME

08:30–09:30 The Sounds of Human-Robot Interaction
Hannah Pelikan, Stine S. Johansen, Sébastien Le Maguer, Ilaria Torre and Georgios Diapoulis
3 min 41 sec loop

The robotic soundscape consists of many layers, from the consequential motor sounds to semantic utterances. This sound collage contextualizes the experience of robot sounds, demonstrating the challenges of designing for this soundscape.

09:30–10:40 Love unto Death: The Multispecies Aesthetics of Birdsong and Bird Extinction in Indonesia
Nils Bubandt and Sanne Krogh Groth 
17 min 25 sec loop

Audio paper published in Seismograf (vol. 33, 2025). Following bird trainers, owners, and referees at Indonesian songbird competitions, this audio paper investigates the awkward and “non-innocent care” that links multispecies love to extinction in the Asian Songbird Crisis. Nils Bubandt, professor of anthropology, Aarhus University is PI of the project Aesthetics of Extinction, in which the two authors collaborate.  

10:40–12:00 Public Intimacy
Sylvain Souklaye
39 min 7 sec loop

1. ”Solitary Venice” (8’22) is an expression of Venice at 4 am without tourists, without locals, just the city’s emptiness, the nagging brutality of the sea, a dysfunctional ticket machine, and patient seagulls.

2. INVISIBLE BODY (RAW NOISE) (10’) is a bodily and sonic lover letter to my bones, muscles, and skin. More importantly, through this piece, I question what their purpose will be outside, in the real world.

3. ”Be Happy, or Die” (20’35) is a sonic experience that explores the consequences of digital dogma and the ultra-connected, yet disconnected, nature of humanity among minorities, outcasts, and individuals with diverse bodies and minds.

12:00–13:00 Sonic Maze: Drawing as Sound
Federica Ciotti
A drop-in activity introducing a sonic-drawing surface responding to pressure. Visitors are welcome to try it and experience how hand gestures shape the sonic response through headphones.
13:00–14:30 Sounds from the Prisons of Note Project 
Áine Mangaoang and Lucy Cathcart Frödén 
21 min 50 sec loop

1. Ostraka: Fragments of Sonic Citizenship at Sites of Exclusion (14’58)
Audio paper (forthcoming with Seismograf) featuring field recordings from the Prisons of Note project (University of Oslo) and recordings from the Manus Recording Project Collective (Australia) and Pfft Ensemble (Scotland). Written by Áine Mangaoang and Lucy Cathcart Frödén. Narrated and produced by Lucy Cathcart Frödén.

2. Unheard by Most (3’52)
Sound work produced by musicians incarcerated in Cork Prison, Ireland, using field recordings from the Prisons of Note project. The musicians’ names have been censored by the prison. Music Teacher/Facilitator: Hannah Healy.

3. Og jeg strikker (3’)
Short audio documentary about Venjas Harem – a band who first met in Oslo Prison. Featured musicians: Venja Ruud Nilsen, Liv-Randi Hannasvik, Hege Renate Johansen, Thale Valla, Laila Mjeldheim, Tanya Anita Moreno Lindahn. Produced by Lucy Cathcart Frödén.

14:30–16:00 GLYPHE
Florence To
8 min 55 sec loop

I.
Logographs form functions,
variables of transition.
Generating feedback systems,
freeze and delay, positions in time.
A depicted form of nature.

II.
Layered echoes spiraling into form.
The symbol inherits motion, yet stands still.
Eyes trace the static glyph to find the pulse beneath.
Language, a fossil of breath.

III.
The eye converts line to memory.
The curve, a stored emotion.
Code becomes reflection, recursive, not exact.
The glyph, once sacred, rendered by machine.

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