09. – 11. July
Berlin 2026
Workshop
Saturday, 11 July 2026
14.00 – 17.00 / Studio I
WORKSHOP
Airchoir
With Anouk Kellner
Language: English/ French
Access to the workshop is limited to 12 participants
Admission: 10€ / 5 €
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In this hands-on workshop, we create a performative listening situation in which sound is not understood as representation or mere production, but as a field of presence – an event in which listening and sounding emerge in real time, continuously shaping one another. Together, we explore how perception, attention and relation take form in shared space.
In this workshop, listening, sound-making and performance are approached as a collective, active practice that extends beyond conventional musical frameworks and inherited ‘barricades’. Attending closely to perception and sensory experience, we explore forms of listening in which meaning arises not primarily from composition or structure, but from sound’s material presence and from the relational dynamics between perception, intention and attention.
Through cycles of experiment and reduction, we explore different modes of listening. Reduction here is not a pursuit of purity or neutrality (since the moment a sound appears, it is already entangled in contexts of memory and culture), but instead opens a space to notice how poetic and political meanings emerge through sonic experience.
Participants are invited to bring a sounding object—an instrument, found materials and everyday objects, their own voice (or nothing at all)—as well as a recording device (a Zoom recorder, smartphone, tape recorder, or any other device). Together, we will explore how these objects can be detached from their familiar functions, histories, and associations. In doing so, they become less fixed musical tools and more open, unstable materials through which new forms of attention can emerge.
Everyone is welcome, whether experienced in sound practice or simply curious to explore. The workshop offers a space for collective experimentation, openness, and care. It encourages participants to try things out, listen closely, and discover together, learning from one another through shared attention and play.
Anouk Kellner is a sound artist and composer based in Belgium. Working across sound art, experimental music, installation and performance, she creates poetic sonic environments that explore sound as both material and relational phenomenon. Her practice is rooted in the idea that listening and sound are shaped by the systems and networks through which they emerge and circulate. Through processes of deconstruction and reduction, Kellner makes these underlying interdependencies perceptible, inviting listening to become an intentional activity. In doing so, she explores diverse modes of listening and the ways we relate to space, to one another, and to sound itself. Through performances and installations, she investigates the relational nature of sound and its poetic potential.