20:00 · Doors open

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20:30 · Introduction with Nele Möller

Nele Möller will give an introduction to the forest stream research project and to live audio

Nele Möller is a Brussels-based artist working primarily in sound, performance and writing. Her research-based practice focuses on acoustic ecologies, environmental histories, and intersubjective relations with humans and more-than-humans. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA Brussels. Her research project, ‘The Forest Echoes Back’, oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by monoculture plantings, climate change and an adherent bark-beetle outbreak, and explores how to retrace and react to these ongoing changes using field recording, live-audio-streaming, listening, and mimicry as the central methodologies.

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21:00-22:00 · Vocal Performance by Loré Lixenberg

Loré Lixenberg is a vocalist, and sound artist who uses the voice as material, physical, comic, and political. Trained in classical music, she turned its discipline inside out, creating works like SINGLR, VOXXCOIN and BIRD that fuse opera, noise, social experiment and new technology. Her performances inhabit a zone between composition and voice theatre, where breathing becomes choreography and sound becomes argument. A listening ecologist, Lixenberg works with the social, environmental and digital resonances of sound. She collaborates closely with composer Frédéric Acquaviva, co-directing La Plaque Tournante, a space for radical sound and visual art.

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22:00-23:00 · Mix and reading by Nele Möller

Nele Möller will mix the live streams and readings about place specific, to share (con)texts and stories

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23:00-00:00 · Electronic music performance by Mort Drew

Mort Drew will perform alongside the live audio feeds mixing original compositions built from samples of previous live transmissions into the sounds from the field transmitters. Drew is interested in listening practices in relation to empathy, to develop connections to sites and environments that we may not pay particular attention to. Their listening practice has developed alongside their work with the artist cooperative Soundcamp building and working with Streamboxes for live environmental sound transmission. Within the cooperative they use the term ‘flat listening’ to describe a considered anti-hierarchical approach to listening. Using stereo omni directional to transmit live audio, like those in the thuringian forest stream, we can listen in simultaneity to situations and sounds away from ourselves.

Mort Drew is a sound artist and creative technician working on flat listening and collective broadcasting through experimental ecological radio practices. Their work explores ephemerality, activist radio, and alternative modalities of being with one another, working primarily with live field transmitters and prototypical tools. Through residencies, exhibitions, and workshops, they create networks for sonic exchanges that challenge traditional broadcasting hierarchies using the live radio space as a conduit for anti-colonial and anti-capitalist solidarities and strategies. Mort is the founder of Trans Activist Radio Group and co-founder of Associació So a new sound art collective based in Catalunya. They have developed works for Sonic Acts (NL), Radio alHara (PL), S AM Swiss Architecture Museum (CH), Southbank Centre (UK), Amgueddfa Cymru (UK), FLUCC (AT), Cafe OTO (UK), CLB Berlin (DE). Mort is currently co-director of the artist cooperative Soundcamp. They release experimental ambient electronic music under the name gravemere.

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Midnight · Guided deep listening exercises with Sharon Stewart

Drawing on Pauline Oliveros’s concepts of Deep Listening and Quantum Listening, Sharon Stewart’s session will gently guide participants into full-body listening—attuning to and collectively responding to the layered temporalities and realities emerging within the space, shaped by Nele Moeller’s sound piece and the accumulated vibrations and listening of the day—moving toward collectively entering the expansive spacetime of the dream realm.

Sharon Stewart is an artist and researcher whose practice integrates field recordings into sound design for dance, theatre, and her own artistic projects. She facilitates workshops that support participants in cultivating deeper reciprocal relationships with their surroundings and within their communities. At the core of her work are creative listening practices that foster nonverbal connection, mutual trust, and openness to dialogue with the land. As a senior Deep Listening® facilitator for the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer, Sharon carries forward the legacy of Pauline Oliveros, IONE, and Heloise Gold, drawing on full-body, attentive listening practices that include meditation, movement, dream listening, and the creation and performance of text scores. She is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Sonic Studies and founder of Hands-on Piano, a piano studio based in Alteveer, Arnhem.

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01:00-07:00 · Sleeping time

Slow mix through different live audio streams

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07:30-09:30 · Awakening mix, electronic music with Roberta Miss

Roberta Miss will perform an Audio Essay DJset sourcing interviews and texts by Maren Morgan and Jake Marquez, who through their work ‘‘Death in the Garden’, question the human role and the consequences of capitalism on Earth. At a time of climate crisis and mass extinction, what does it mean to acknowledge and accept death, to practice dying, to try to control death, and to look at death not as an end, but as an alchemical space of transformation? Holding onto the notion of recording the field and listening to the earth, how can these questions and conversations emerge in a DJ mix for an audience?

Roberta Miss, alias Nur/Se, has extensive experience in the field of sound as a DJ in clubs, art centres and self-managed venues. Her DJ sets are carefully crafted and constructed by layers of sound where clarity and confusion, heaviness and lightness, colour and darkness interact, creating narrative mixes for dancefloor or for more intimate listening such as the radio. She draws on her background in print media for a common methodology—rooted in sourcing, sampling, and reproduction—and a fundamentally political DNA, where the acts of printing and activism are historically intertwined through tools like pamphlets, newspapers, and slogans. In her mixes she navigates through sound universes as broad as techno, spoken words or field recording, media samples, slogans, speeches, etc. exploring different listening dynamics and sonic narrative territories often linked to current issues and activist struggles. linktr.ee/roberta_miss

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09:30-10:30 · Performance by Karen Willems

Karen Willems sees nature as the greatest inspiration in her work. For her performance including percussion and objects, she is considering listening as in an improvisation, like a conversation with the glacier stream.

Karen Willems is an artist, musician and player. From the child with the marching drum grew an unconventional drummer, percussionist, composer, and musician. Karen Willems is active in various fields. Her expressive, physical drum and percussion technique brought her to Yuko, Zita Swoon Group, Mauro, Zwerm among others. With her project Inwolves she took the first steps towards the discovery of the essence of her own music. Her solo project ‘Terre Sol’ elaborates on this. Her aim is to find music in which she could find herself as a spiritual being as well as a creative artist. She is concerned with the essence of her own work, the perception of her own personality and the further development of sound as an art of fusing different aesthetics and genres. For the Belgian, jazz is also a communicative form of music that seeks dialog and discourse in order to discover new things and explore the unknown, For that reason, Willems has added a "Four" to her "Terre Sol" in order to set out as a quartet of four in search of the essence of contemporary, improvised music and to move sure-footedly along the borderline between jazz and improvised music, pop and rock, experimental music and musical avant-garde.Willems is also active in theatre, dance, and contemporary music productions, and has collaborated with Ultima Vez (Invited), ChampdAction (Hold Your Horses, Vokal Trakt), Platform K (Sculpture), Bl!ndman [drums] (Herman Kolgen – Train Fragments), Kopergietery (Buzz), Antigone (Gemislukt)

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10:30-11:00 · Round table and discussion

After the night's experiences, participants are invited to share their thoughts.

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11:00-14:00 · Ongoing live streams

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14:30 · Lecture performance by Nina Emge

As the Saturday afternoon aims to draw words and reflections from bodily experiences of the evening, Nina Emge will propose a weaving together of mixed sounds and texts, and perhaps also some short interviews where the exchange between structure and potential would allow us to think about how the listening practices can help to think about socio-political relationships; about common spaces and synchronicity.

Nina Emge is an artist based in Zurich who reflects on the social dimensions of sound, voice, silence, and listening practices. Emge's work focuses on issues such as decentralization, shared working methods, and redistribution. This is evident both in her installations and drawings, which reflects her research and archival work, and in the production processes of her artworks. Emge is an active member of the Transnational Sound Initiative. Emge's work has been exhibited at the Halle für Kunst in Lüneburg, the Lagos Biennale, Biennale Son, WAF Vienna, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunsthalle Bern, Istituto Svizzero Rom, Istituto Svizzero Palermo, Frac Bretagne + Centre culturel suisse de Paris, Uferhalle Berlin, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Helmhaus Zürich, and other national and international institutions. Emge is part of the Art in Space and Time chair at ETH Zurich.

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15:30 · Lecture by Leah Bassel

Leah Bassel (she/her) is Professor of Politics and International Studies at Coventry University, UK. Her research interests include the political sociology of migration, intersectionality and citizenship. Leah’s books include The Politics of Listening: Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life (Palgrave, 2017), and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain co-authored with Akwugo Emejulu (Policy Press 2017). Before pursuing an academic career, Leah was an emergency outreach worker in Paris where she provided humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers and created a circus camp project for refugee youth.

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16:30-17:00 · Closing discussion of the programme

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Landscape image: Mort Drew by Lucien Mc Sally 2024
Vertical image: The Black Forest Project, Nele Möller.
B&W image: Listening through Bert Theis’ F.M.1, F.M.2, F.M.3, F.M.4, F.M.5, 1999 installation at MUDAM Luxembourg. Photo made by David Berg.