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Diffractive Ensembles: Silence as a Thread for Listening
Diffractive Ensembles: Silence as a Thread for Listening speelt op donderdag 3 september 2026 om 11:00 in Mediamatic (Dijksgracht 6, 1019 BS Amsterdam). Gratis. sound, ecology, art-science.
- Datum
- donderdag 3 september 2026
- Aanvang
- 11:00
- Locatie
- Mediamatic · Dijksgracht 6, 1019 BS Amsterdam
- Prijs
- Gratis
- Tickets
- mediamatic.stager.co ↗
- Soort
- Lezing
- Genres
- sound, ecology, art-science, workshop
- Zaal
- Panorama Studio
Over Diffractive Ensembles: Silence as a Thread for Listening
The workshop invites participants to attune to the thresholds between what is audible and what remains structurally silenced within our oceans. Where research notes become scripts, guided listening exercises build temporary acoustic territories and indirect listening forms strategies for sensing the ocean beyond what is heard. The workshop unfolds through four interconnected cases that explore conditions of silence across microbial, embodied, toxicological, and infrastructural scales. Throughout the day, participants will move through transscalar modes of listening. Beginning with a single drop of water, participants explore how microorganisms challenge listening itself. Unable to hear them directly, they experiment with observation, traces, and indirect sensing as forms of microbial listening. Over sensing the frequencies of bubbles with the whole body, approaching toxicity as a metabolic listening score, and following a sound file through kilometres of submarine cables crossing the ocean floor. Together, these exercises invite participants to reflect on how questions of rights, memory, territory, voice, and evidence shift across these scales, and how oceans connect them through their sonic and material layers. The workshop concludes with a collective recording and listening session where participants share their sonic traces, narrative scores, and sensory encounters. These contributions form the basis of a collaborative, multimodal, diffractive counter-cartography that develops into a digital radio platform. The project Diffractive Ensembles: Silence as a Thread for Listening was incubated within TBA21–Academy's OCEAN / UNI Sound Ecologies, and supported by Ars Biologica (Budweis 2028, CZ). Guided by Raquel Ledo Doval, Denisa Půbalová, Pablo Torres Gómez, and Nina Blume.
Line-up
- Raquel Ledo Dovalact
- Denisa Půbalováact
- Pablo Torres Gómezact
- Nina Blumeact
Over Mediamatic
Mediamatic is een kunstcentrum op de Dijksgracht in Amsterdam-Oost, opgericht in 1983, dat zich toelegt op interdisciplinair onderzoek en experimentele praktijken op het snijvlak van kunst, wetenschap en ecologie. Vanuit het pand Biotoop Dijkspark — aan het water van het Oosterdok — combineert de organisatie tentoonstellingen, langlopende artistieke residencies, workshops en performances. De programmering is breed en beweegt zich tussen speculatief werk, ritueel, dans en participatieve workshops, met een sterke nadruk op duurzaamheid en sociale urgentie.
Veelgestelde vragen
Hoe laat begint Diffractive Ensembles: Silence as a Thread for Listening?
Diffractive Ensembles: Silence as a Thread for Listening start op donderdag 3 september 2026 om 11:00 in Mediamatic, Dijksgracht 6, 1019 BS Amsterdam.
Wat kost een ticket voor Diffractive Ensembles: Silence as a Thread for Listening?
Diffractive Ensembles: Silence as a Thread for Listening is gratis toegankelijk.
Waar is Mediamatic?
Mediamatic ligt aan Dijksgracht 6, 1019 BS Amsterdam.
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