“Mapmaker, mapmaker, show me a map so that I may hear the world”
To know the Arctic rather than believe in the Arctic requires an ontological politics that makes space for the land, the climatic and hydrological processes taking place on that land, and the beings who choose to inhabit it. Through the Arctic Auditories project, we...
Countering the A-V Litany with Maps
After nearly five years of joint planning, doing, retreating to cabins, of lost microphones, lemon risottos, soaked shoes and jackets, frostbitten fingers, harbor porpoises and tern attacks, of listening, drawing, reading, presenting, recording,...
Flowing, flushing, freezing, streaming – Experimental Audio Zine Workshop
Photo by Martha Steinmetz Experimental Audio Zine Workshop 23-25 May, Tromsø Kunstforening, Music Academy organised through Arctic Auditories and developed by Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne A group of twenty people. Different backgrounds, a shared interest in...
Experimental Audio Zine Workshop
23-25 May, Tromsø Kunstforening, Music Academy Flowing, flushing, freezing, streaming: Listening at the intersection of human interference. How do we attune to our surroundings and care for the lives in it?How do we negotiate with beings that communicate in...
Merging with Water
On 30 April 2025, Arctic Auditories organized the online workshop “Merging with Waters” together with the Environmental Humanities Research Group (UiT). The aim of this workshop was to provide information about the current research processes and invite participants to...
Merging With Water – Arctic Auditories Workshop
Amid the winter snows and flurries of March in Tromsø/Romsa the Arctic Auditories-team prepares for our fourth workshop - Merging With Water on April 30th 2025 at 14:00-17:00 (CET). Our friends in the UiT Environmental Humanities research group, and invited guests,...
Floating
Among our project group, the idea of floating—immersing our more-than-human bodies of water back into the sea to experience its aqueous multiplicity unmediated—had long been a topic of conversation. Within feminist embodied phenomenology, the bodily logic of gestation...
Sound Stream: A Journey
I first encountered live online sound streams around the same time I started to explore the many forms of online soundmaps (that are discussed in the previous blog). In 2006, I hung a microphone out of the window of what was then the offices of Creative Research into...
On Soundmaps by Angus Carlyle
Me and soundmaps go back a long way. I’ve been avid – and frequently critical - consumer of these modalities of aural cartography for several decades. I have integrated exploration of soundmaps into my teaching, in recent years running workshops with the wonderful MA...
Notes from the Borealis Festival, Birgon 2024
My name is Paula Ryggvik Mikalsen, and I hold a postdoc position connected to Arctic Auditories situated at the Institute for Gender and Women's Research at the University in Tromsø. I had the pleasure of attending the Borealis Festival in Birgon/Bergen, and I wanted...