Practice × Theory Sessions: Sonic Ecologies and Climate Change

How do sound, listening, and musical practice shape our understanding of ecological crisis? What forms of environmental knowledge emerge through sonic experimentation, immersive storytelling, and attentiveness to more-than-human worlds?

In this session, we gather artists and scholars working at the intersection of sound, ecology, and climate studies to explore how sonic practices can illuminate environmental transformations, histories of extraction, and future imaginaries. Through performance, reflection, and open conversation, we examine how listening becomes an ecological method.

Rather than assuming a fixed boundary between theory and practice, the session treats their interaction as an active site of experimentation. It invites participants to reflect on how practice operates within, alongside, and sometimes against academic structures, and how artistic work can open alternative ways of thinking, teaching, and researching across disciplines.

Guests:
Maarten Stragier, Michelle Agnes, Jacek Smolicki, Kyra Sims

Graduate Student Presenters:
Darcy Copeland, Marisse Cato, Stephen Early

Guest presentations and graduate student presentations will be followed by open conversation with all attendees.

Moderators:
Irene Newman Jimenes, Lucie Bai

This event will also be livestreamed via Zoom. Zoom link will be available via Eventbrite RSVP.