Monai De Paula Antunes

"Ideally, when we listen to radio we are listening to a listening medium. Radio listens through its microphones to the world, to human voices, to the environment." (Hildegarde Westerkamp, 1994:89)

This class will explore the plurality of experiences involved in radio-making in connection to ecological thinking. 'Radio' may sound anachronistic, but we will consider it in an expanded sense - not purely as a broadcast medium, but as an embedded aspect of contemporary (tele-)communications (mobile phones, WiFi, GPS, etc), and also as a natural phenomenon.

Learning basic audio production, and analogue and digital radio-making skills, we shall practice listening and "storying otherwise" (Haraway) by experimenting with different sound technologies and radio ecologies, with a special consideration for radio-making as a collective practice and shared listening experience.

Classes will include discussions of texts and artworks, workshops and exercises, field trips, and a final live-radio session to encompass the projects developed over the course of the semester.

Sessions will take place at the FHS Potsdam/Potsdam University, at the floating university, Prinzessinnengarten, and other urban green spaces in Berlin. (More details in the first session).

#listening #storytelling #bioacoustics #radio art #radio ecosystems #living archive #ecological thinking #collectivity