09. – 11. July
Berlin 2026
Workshop
Saturday, 11 July 2026
14.00 – 17.00 / Studio I
WORKSHOP
Airchoir – A Space of Listening Bodies
With Anouk Kellner
Language: English/ French
Access to the workshop is limited to 12 participants
Admission: 10€ / 5 €
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, and how architecture and environment actively co-compose sonic experience rather than simply frame it.
Our playground is Airchoir, a specially developed system of ventilation and electronics that sets 26 metal and wooden organ pipes into vibration, while inflatable elements expand and contract like breathing bodies. Through pulses of air, resonance, and iterative experimentation, we enter shifting modes of listening. Reduction here does not aim for purity or neutrality — every sound is already entangled in cultural memory and contextual association — but instead opens a space to notice how poetic and political meanings emerge through sonic experience. A sonic body forms through air, resonance, and subtle interference, where individual voices merge, drift apart, and continuously reconfigure across space. Sound is approached not as fixed composition, but as vibration, breath, and relational presence — a shifting field shaped through movement, proximity, and listening.
Participants are invited to bring an instrument, sounding objects, their voice — or nothing at all — and to loosen them from habitual functions, histories, and iconographies. In doing so, they become fluid, unstable materials: less fixed musical tools than shifting forms through which new modes of attention, relation, and presence can emerge.
Everyone is welcome, whether experienced in sound practice or simply curious to explore. This is a space for collective experimentation, openness, and care. We make room for trying out, listening closely, and discovering together — learning from one another through shared attention and play.
Anouk Kellner is a sound artist and composer based in Belgium. Her artistic practice often combines classical musical instruments with modern technology, bringing together composition, sound sculpture and performance. At the center of her work is the subjective experience of time.
She has a particular interest in the church organ, which she reinterprets in recent projects through electronic controls and sculptural structures. This results in immersive sound worlds in which she explores a range of sonic textures and narrative layers. Alongside her sound art projects, she is also active as a DJ, including on Kiosk Radio in Brussels, where she is known for experimental and atmospheric sets.