The second part within FIBER Festival’s Reassemble lab explores the potential of (spatial) sound experiences to investigate and sense ecological processes and landscapes in transformation. With Sound Ecologies we boost interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, designers and researchers, in order to raise awareness or make experienceable the invisible effects of the Anthropocene. The programme provides a combination of lectures, workshops, and fieldwork to support group research and work development.
The content of the programme is both technical, situated and theoretical, moving between working with software, data, field research and discussing and designing with ecological knowledge. Within Sound Ecologies we will focus on investigating a context and a related case: the area around the Borssele nuclear power plant.

In one particular part of the Netherlands, a small beach outcrop in the Zeeland peninsula, sound stitches all narratives together. Both onshore and offshore, vibration moves with, between and through everything that exists. Against a backdrop of windmills and the Borssele nuclear facilities, and situated at one of the world’s economically most important waterways, the place emits a constant humming, a grunting, a grinding.

Participants will immerse themselves in this technocratic landscape and ask questions like: What is transition in a place that is never static and where time is non-linear? Can we attune ourselves to the complexity of realities unfolding? Who is vibrating, how can their tune be detected, and how can their story be told?

Thursday 28/10 | 13:00 – 15:00 CEST
Saturday 30/10 | 11:00 – 12:00 CEST

Participation: Free (online)

This is a collaborative river understanding workshop. Semi fictional, half reality. We, the All River Species Act Organisation, take you on a journey through legal frameworks, AI and indigenous philosophies to recognize and relate to non-human life, in order to better know the river. You will travel to a river near you, there you will be guided by our river spirits through a series of experiences which will expand your and our understanding of what a river can be.

Through your responses and work in the field you will become better acquainted with rivers and contribute towards the All Rivers Species Act project, helping to expand our understanding of rivers globally.

For this workshop we encourage participants to find a river that they can easily access during the festival. If you are not able to access a river please look out for a man made body of water or a place where a river or body of water used to exist near you.

Participants will need a way to document their river experience in either sound, video or image – a smartphone is ideal, a sound recorder or camera would also be good.

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Part 1
28th October 13:00 – 15:00 CEST online presentation.

Collaborative river understanding. We will guide you through our research processes in the creation of the All River Species Act, delving into collaborations with GPT2, grappling with legal frameworks and learning from some indigenous philosophies. We will introduce our river spirits and guide you through preparation for the river field trip.

Part 2
Rivers Field Trip  (time and place determined individually by participants)

You will choose a time and travel to a local river.  Once there you will be guided through a series of river interaction experiences and documentation processes. The field trip can be undertaken at any time between Part 1 and Part 3.  All field trip material will be provided in session 1. There will be prompts for gathering documentation of your river experience so ideally participants have a recording device such as a smartphone, camera or sound recorder.

Part 3
30th October 11:00 -12:00 CEST online

The final session will be a collaborative exchange.  An opportunity to share experiences, feedback to the group about your river and contribute to the ongoing All River Species Act project.