PRESENTERS
Anthea Caddy is an artist and researcher whose work explores spatial energy, its propagation, and its interaction with materials. Through large-scale installations, performances, and interventions, she employs specialised loudspeakers and amplification to map space and reveal hidden spatial phenomena. By working with audio technologies, she investigates how sound waves interact with architectural and natural environments, treating sound as both a sculptural and performative medium that questions the political and social structures embedded in space. From immersive installations in galleries to outdoor performances that transform landscapes into resonant bodies, her work challenges conventional listening and expands spatial awareness.
www.antheacaddy.net
Marcel Cobussen is Full Professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy at Leiden University (the Netherlands). He studied jazz piano at the Conservatory of Rotterdam and Art and Cultural Studies at Erasmus University, Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Cobussen is author of several books, among them Engaging With Everyday Sounds (OBP 2022), The Field of Musical Improvisation (LUP 2017), Music and Ethics (Ashgate 2012/Routledge 2017, co-author Nanette Nielsen), and Thresholds. Rethinking Spirituality Through Music (Ashgate 2008). He is editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies (Bloomsbury 2020, co-editor Michael Bull), The Routledge Companion to Sounding Art (Routledge 2016, co-editors Barry Truax and Vincent Meelberg) and Resonanties. Verkenningen tussen kunsten en wetenschappen (LUP 2011). He is editor-in-chief of the open access online Journal of Sonic Studies(www.sonicstudies.org). His PhD dissertation Deconstruction in Music (Erasmus University Rotterdam 2002) is presented as an online website located at www.deconstruction-in-music.com.
Mario de Vega is an artist working with sound as a psycho-physical material. He has been guest artist and lecturer at City University of Hong Kong, Universität der Künste Berlin, Rijksakademie Amsterdam, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Technische Universität Berlin, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, Kyushu University, écal, and Centro among others. Since 2020, he is a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
https://mariodevega.info
Nele Möller is an artist and PhD researcher at LUCA/KU Leuven. In her research-based practice, she focuses on acoustic ecologies, environmental histories, and intersubjective relations with humans and more-than-humans. Her research project, ‘The Forest Echoes Back,’ oscillates around the development and ecological impact of the spruce monoculture dominating the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by climate change and an adherent bark beetle infestation, using field recording, live-audio-streaming, listening, and mimicry as the central methodologies.
https://nelemoeller.info/
Karl Salzmann is an artist and researcher based in Vienna, Austria. His work explores sound in performance, conceptual and installation art, focusing on its visual, social and cultural dimensions. He holds a diploma in Digital Arts from the University of Applied Arts Vienna and a PhD from the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2024. Since 2023 he is head of the ÆSR - Applied/Experimental Sound Research Lab. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at ACFNY New York, Kunsthalle Bratislava and Kunsthaus Graz. He received the Erste Bank Art Prize (2017) and the Austrian State Grant for Media Art (2019).
www.karlsalzmann.com
Salomé Voegelin is an artist and writer engaged in listening as a socio-political practice. She works from the relational logic of sound to focus on the in-between and the liminal, where different disciplines can meet to find undisciplined new knowledge possibilities. Voegelin writes articles and papers, books, texts and text-scores for performance and publication. And is concerned with Designing a Sonic Planet: taking the invisible and relational as a starting point to employ musical and sonic sensibilities to re-imagine the world from its indivisibility. She is a Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
www.salomevoegelin.net