How to live together in sound?
Towards sonic democracy

Full Schedule

Monday, 12. October 2026

10:00 – 10:30
Opening / Arrivals

Welcome

10:30 – 11:00
Project team gives symposium introduction

Session 1

Socio-material, socio-political conditions that organize listening – chair: Alex Arteaga

11:00 – 11:20
11:20 – 11:40
Listening as Resistance: Sound, Storytelling, and Cultural Archives Across Ecological and Urban Systems → abstract
11:40 – 12:00
Listening past Irritation: Mosquitoes and the Limits of a Sonic Democracy? → abstract
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break

Module Presentation

13:30 – 15:00
Shared Listening: Social engagements with(in) urban environments → abstract
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break

Session 2

Composition as Social Practice – chair: Petri Kuljuntausta

15:30 – 15:50
Composing Ways of Being Together: A Co-Creative Laboratory Along the Nieuwe Maas → abstract
15:50 – 16:10
Making a Composite out of Differences That Remain Different → abstract
16:10 – 16:30
Break

Session 3

Care and Politics – chair: Jan Schacher

16:30 – 17:15
Sounding Care: Listening as Infrastructure for Solidarity → abstract
17:15 – 18:00
The Grain of the Crowd: Voice, Noise, and the Sound of Assembly → abstract
18:00 – 19:00
Break

Outdoor Walk

19:00 – 21:00

Tuesday, 13. October 2026

Module Presentation

09:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break

Session 4

Others and Infrastructures – chair: Jaana Erkkilä-Hill

11:00 – 11:45
Listening and Sounding at an Angle: Infrastructures of the Unheard → abstract
11:45 – 12:30
TAO and the Refusal Direction: AI Alignment and Abliteration as Sonic Practice → abstract
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break

Module Presentation

15:00 – 15:30
Coffee Break

Session 5

More-than-human Others – chair: Alex Arteaga

15:30 – 15:50
Listening at the Boundary of Meaning: Feral Roaming with Křivoklátsko → abstract
15:50 – 16:10
To Settle, To Release: Sonic Ecologies of More-than-Human Belonging → abstract
16:10 – 16:30
Break

Session 6

Vibration and Dislocation – chair: Alex Arteaga

16:30 – 17:15
Dislocation, Not Silence: Onkyō and Unspoken Condition of Sonic Democracy → abstract
17:15 – 19:00
Break
19:00 – 22:00
Symposium Dinner→ reservation here

 


Wednesday, 14. October 2026


Module Presentation

09:00 – 12:30
Sensitive practices of reflective co-involvement. An enactivist approach to living together (in sound) → abstract
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break

Session 7

Witnessing, Co-existing – chair: Jaana Erkkilä-Hill

13:30 – 13:50
Mediated Listening in Documentary Encounters: Toward Non-Extractive Sonic Co-Existence → abstract
13:50 – 14:10
Sound and Research-Creation (SnRC): Trans-Positioning Artistic Research through Sound → abstract
14:10 – 14:30
Mobile Sonic Citizenship: Probing the Boundaries of Urban Democracy
→ abstract
14:30 – 15:00
Break
15:00–16:00
Plenary: discussions and conversations
16:00
Symposium ends

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