
What makes sound political? What does it mean to engage with sound as a political tool? This workshop at HKU and Hogeschool Utrecht in collaboration with Residenties in Utrecht and Creative Coding Utrecht explores sound as a political medium – how it can mobilize, unsettle, connect, and transform, resonating beyond the concert hall or gallery space. Sound propagates and entangles; listening demands presence and empathy. Together, we will reflect on the difference between making work about political issues and making work for them – moving from representation to intervention. This workshop creates a space for shared inquiry and experimentation, asking how artistic practices such as deep listening and listening-with might engage in the subtle negotiations of care, responsibility, and attention that shape our shared ecologies. And perhaps, in listening together – as in protest – we might begin to hear the possibility of collective action taking shape in sound.


