Category: The Art of Resonance

The Art of Resonance: Mark Peter Wright

From November 2024 onward, the research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
26 March 2025 16:00

Mark Peter Wright is an artist, researcher and writer working at the intersection of sound arts, experimental pedagogy and critical theory. His book Listening After Nature is published by Bloomsbury, 2022/23. Wright’s practice investigates relations between humans and animals, geographies and technologies, observers and subjects. Ongoing questions include: how does environmental sound convey complex geopolitical meaning? How can technology be practiced with an eco-critical sensitivity and how might listening operate beyond the human? Working between the field and lab, site and gallery, he is committed to amplifying forms of power and poetics within the creative use of sound and documentary media. In addition to his own practice-based research he collaborates extensively. With Helena Hunter he works under the name Matterlurgy on cross disciplinary projects and exhibitions. With Salomé Voegelin he co-convened Points of Listening, a series of public events exploring listening and sound-making as an artful form of pedagogy. With Angus Carlyle he works on projects and performances that explore the relations of listening and recording, nature and aesthetics, site and studio.

The Art of Resonance: Christina Hazboun

From November 2024 onward, the research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
24 April 2025 16:00

Christina Hazboun is a Sonic Agent, surfing soundwaves in search of ear-gasms, exploring music and sound in space, time and society. Her multifarious adventuring through music and sound manifest through an intersectional web of activities aimed at amplifying the voices of the underheard from the SWANA and the global majority via poetic and research based texts, audio/sound collages, workshops, and curation with a focus on music industries, gender diversity and digital connectivity. Her main sphere of activity focuses on increasing the appearance and audibility of new sounds and music from West Asia, North Africa and the global south sharing hybrid, diverse and powerful voices with those who come with an open ear.

In collaboration with the research project Transnational Solidarity (Mohanad Yaqubi, KASK School of Arts).

The Art of Resonance: Juliette Volcler

From November 2024 onward, the research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
6 March 2025 16:00

Juliette Volcler is an independent researcher, writer, sound artist and gardener. Her work focuses on the history of sound and radio art, the uses of sound by states and industries in public spaces, and the way those two fields intertwine. She considers and practices critical listening as a way to advance social justice. She published Extremely Loud: Sound as a weapon (The New Press, 2013) and Contrôle: Comment s’inventa l’art de la manipulation sonore (La Découverte / La rue musicale, 2017). In her latest book, L’orchestration du quotidien : design sonore et écoute au 21e siècle (La Découverte, 2022), she raises the political question of listening in the 21st century through an investigation into sound design and its current development as a tool for social engineering. This book invites readers to make a shift in the way they listen to everyday life, and to awaken a critical ear.

The Art of Resonance: Kate Carr

From November 2024 onward, the research cluster THE ART OF RESONANCE (KASK & Conservatory Gent) is organising a series of informal listening sessions with international artists and researchers, with an eye (and ear) to cultivating a sonic sensibility and relationality.

Herculeslab — KASK & Conservatorium / School of Arts Gent
20 February 2025 16:00

Kate Carr’s practice explores the encounters, textures and technologies entangled with field recording using movement, objects and experimental recording techniques. She creates intimate, delicate and hybrid soundworlds which centre the interactions and collectivity which generate soundscapes. She works across composition, performance and installation. Everything from vibrations caused by cars and footfalls, to overheard murmurs, public speeches, music in public space, and the roar of distant sporting events has found its way into her compositions, and live performances. Inspired by the layers, minglings and silences in our collective soundscapes, Carr is interested in composing works probe the soundscape for clues as to how we negotiate living together. She is particularly focused on hybrid soundscapes: where forest meets town, nuclear power plant meets wetland, booming car stereo meets residential street.

In collaboration with the departement Autonomous Arts at KASK & Conservatory School of Arts.