This project aims to explore from the perspective of artistic practice the emerging field of ecoacoustics and its potential to foster interspecies communication within a community of aware listeners. Rooted in a personal history of ecological engagement the project seeks to answer critical questions about human alienation from natural environments and the possibilities for appreciating and understanding nonhuman music.

 

The research is structured around three interconnected components:

 

1.Theoretical Exploration: This segment integrates ecoacoustics with decolonial theory, challenging anthropocentric and colonial perspectives in ecological studies. Outputs will include academic papers, a series of podcasts, and an online platform for sharing research findings.

2.Educational Workshops and Public Engagement: These activities will utilize creative listening and narrative techniques to raise awareness and knowledge about the sound complexity of ecosystems among diverse audiences, including children and adults and to build a community of aware listeners. 

3.Field Research and Documentation: Focused on the listening modalities of the soundscapes of European rural communities, this part involves documenting traditional ecological knowledge and practices related to acoustic ecology through interviews and archival research.

 

Through a combination of workshops, public presentations, field research, and theoretical inquiry, this project aims to promote the concept of acoustic communities, where humans and nonhumans coexist and communicate in a shared sonic environment. By emphasizing the importance of listening, imagination, and ethical engagement with the environment, the research aspires to contribute to a deeper understanding of ecological interdependence and the cultural significance of nonhuman sonic complexity. It started within a community, the Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit in Berlin, where stages of the work have already been publicly presented in different ways (2022 and 2023, see documentation below). Another public presentation was at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, as part of the symposium "Time to Listen” (scroll down to see the documentation of my session) in August 2023. 

 

Also an episode of a podcast has been recorded for "seee radio", listen to it here (or read the transcript).

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Here you can find a documentation of the project in 2022-2023.