This audio paper explores choric settings of generic voices as a vehicle for contemplating and deconstructing concepts of Being and subjectivity. 

It is through knowledge of the art-form and skilful weaving of networks of symbols, that creatives can dictate the terms of storytelling and thus exert their power over the audience.

This audio paper narrates through the experiences and ambiences of Russian aggression to which Ukrainians relate a long history of Russia’s imperial statehood.

The sound of the slogans at the demonstrations touches the body, it is impossible to hide from. The vulnerability revealed through this touch creates immediate affective responses pointing at the limitations of sonic support and solidarization.

Operating rooms are typically noise filled environments, where polyrhythms and polyphonics of human and non-human sounds collide. In this paper the operating room soundscape is used for relational ethnographic exploration, framed in critical affect theory, and brings together insights from medical sociology and sound studies. 

In the audio-paper »Fear of Weakness: Songs to Agitate the Man«, artist Morten Poulsen builds on his project »Boys Will Be…« (2022), in which he met with young cis-men to have conversations about vulnerability, intimacy and masculine norms