20:00 · Doors open

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20:30 · Introduction with Nele Möller

Nele Möller is a Brussels-based artist working primarily in sound, performance and writing. Her research-based practice focuses on acoustic ecologies, environmental histories, and intersubjective relations between humans and more-than-humans. For Listening Other·Wise, Möller will further develop and expand the concept of collective, slow, and long-durational listening to explore questions of simultaneities
and entanglements of different places. Central to the concept are the relationships between various states of consciousness and how they influence our listening response-abilities. Together with Möller, we will get an insightful experience of place- specific (con)texts and stories accompanied by a livestream from the Thuringian Forest.

Nele is currently working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA Brussels. Her research project, The Forest Echoes Back, oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by monoculture plantings, climate change, and bark beetle outbreaks, exploring how to retrace and react to these ongoing changes using field recording, live audio streaming, listening, and mimicry as the central methodologies.

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21:00-22:00 · Vocal Performance by Loré Lixenberg

Loré Lixenberg is a vocalist and sound artist who uses the voice as material, a medium, and in comedy and politics. Trained in classical music, she turned its discipline inside out, creating works – like SINGLR, Voxxcoin, and BIRD – that fuse opera, noise, social experiments, and new technology. Her performances inhabit a zone between composition and voice theatre, where breathing becomes choreography and sound becomes argument. A listening ecologist, Lixenberg works with the social, environmental, and digital resonances of sound. She will be
presenting a vocal performance at Listening Other·Wise.

Lixenberg’s performative projects explore the intersection of voice, politics, economy, and technology. These include PRET A CHANTER™ (a live fashion-opera), Panic Room – The Singterviews (a series of sung interviews), SINGLR (a real-time operatic dating app), Voxxcoin (a blockchain-based opera exploring fiscal exchange), and LETHE (an opera film about death rituals). Her piece theVoicePartyOperaBotFarm[myMuseIsMyFury] won the Phonurgia Nova international sound art prize in 2021. In 2017, she founded The Voice Party – a hybrid artwork that functions as both a political party and an opera. In 2019 and 2024, she turned electoral participation into a durational performance, by standing as a candidate in the UK general elections. She co-directed La Plaque Tournante – the Berlin-based art space and hub for historic and contemporary avant-garde sound, text, and performance – with Frédéric Acquaviva. This was awarded the Berlin Senate Prize for Best Project Space in 2017.

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22:00-23:00 · Mix and reading by Nele Möller

Nele Möller will mix the live streams and readings about place specific, to share (con)texts and stories

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23:00-00:00 · Electronic music performance by Mort Drew

Mort Drew is a sound artist working on ‘flat listening’ and collective broadcasting through experimental ecological radio practices. For Listening Other·Wise, they will perform alongside the live audio feeds, mixing original compositions built from samples of previous live transmissions into the sounds from the field transmitters. Drew is interested in listening practices relating to empathy, developing connections
to sites and environments that we may not pay particular attention to. Their listening practice has developed alongside their work building and working with live environmental sound transmission streamboxes with the artist cooperative, Soundcamp. Within the cooperative, they use the term ‘flat listening’ to describe a considered anti-hierarchical approach to listening. Using stereo omnidirectional to transmit live audio, like those in the Thuringian Forest stream, we can listen in simultaneity to situations and sounds away from ourselves.

Mort Drew is a South London-based sound artist. Through residencies, exhibitions, and workshops, they create networks for sonic exchanges that challenge traditional broadcasting hierarchies using the live radio space as a conduit for anti-colonial and anti-capitalist solidarities and strategies. Drew is the founder of Trans Activist Radio Group and co-founder of Associació So, a new sound art collective based in Catalunya. They have developed works for Sonic Acts (NL), Radio AlHara (PS), SAM Swiss Architecture Museum (CH), Southbank Centre (UK), Amgueddfa Cymru (UK), FLUCC (AT), Cafe OTO (UK), and CLB Berlin (DE). Drew is currently co-director of the artist cooperative, Soundcamp.

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Midnight · Guided deep listening exercises with Sharon Stewart

Sharon Stewart’s work explores creative listening practices that foster nonverbal connection, mutual trust, and openness to dialogue. In her contribution to Listening Other·Wise, she refers to Quantum Listening – an essay by Pauline Oliveros, who describes the act as simultaneously listening in as many ways as possible, and changing and being changed by the listening. Stewart’s deep listening session will gently guide participants into full-body listening; attuning to and collectively responding to the layered temporalities and realities emerging within the space, and moving towards collectively entering the expansive spacetime of the dream realm.

Sharon Stewart is an Arnhem-based artist and researcher whose practice integrates field recordings into sound design for dance, theatre, and her own artistic projects. She facilitates workshops that support participants in cultivating deeper reciprocal relationships with their surroundings and within their communities. As a senior Deep Listening® facilitator for the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer , Sharon carries forward the legacy of Pauline Oliveros, IONE, and Heloise Gold, drawing on full-body, attentive listening practices that include meditation, movement, dream listening, and the creation and performance of text scores.

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01:00-07:00 · Sleeping time

Slow mix through different live audio streams

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07:30-09:30 · Awakening mix, electronic music with Roberta Miss

For Listening Other·Wise, Roberta Miss presents an audio-essay DJ set that draws on quotes from Maren Morgan and Jake Marquez, probing human agency, ecological grief, and the entanglements of capitalism on a rapidly shifting planet. Her set unfolds as a speculative gesture, asking: How might we cultivate new modes of listening to the Earth amid climate collapse? And how might we acknowledge the sadness that accompanies this moment in order to work through our collective grief?

Roberta Miss aka Nur/Se is a Brussels-based artist and DJ whose work bridges sonic experimentation and printmaking. Through montage, sampling, and narrative layering, she uses sound as a medium for transmitting political ideas and exploring contemporary struggles. Her mixes weave techno, spoken word, and field recordings into shifting listening landscapes. She has performed across clubs, cultural spaces, festivals, squats, and radio. Recent projects include QO2’s Oscillation Festival (2023), Club Antena at M HKA (2023), and a mix for L’Internationale Online (2025). She is a co-founder of the feminist collective Poxcat and teaches at ESA Le 75.
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09:30-10:30 · Performance by Karen Willems

Karen Willems is an artist and musician working with the aim of deeper connection and intimacy through music. During Listening Other·Wise, she will focus on nature as the greatest inspiration in her work. Together with Willems, we will experience the act of listening as an improvisation, going into a conversation with the sound of a glacier. Therefore, music is experienced as a communicative form that seeks dialogue and discourse in order to discover different perspectives on forms of listening.

Karen Willems is a Belgian jazz musician who is active in various fields. Her expressive physical drum and percussion technique brought her to Yuko, Zita Swoon Group, and Mauro, Zwerm, among others. With her project Inwolves, she took the first steps towards the
discovery of the essence of her own music. Her solo project, Terre Sol, elaborates on this. Willems is also active in theatre, dance, and contemporary music productions, and has collaborated with Ultima Vez (Invited), ChampdAction (Hold Your Horses, Vokal Trakt), Platform K (Sculpture), Bl!ndman [drums] (Herman Kolgen – Train Fragments), Kopergietery (Buzz), and Antigone (Gemislukt).

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10:30-11:00 · Round table and discussion

After the night's experiences, participants are invited to share their thoughts.

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11:00-14:00 · Ongoing live streams

Listening moment without extra activation

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14:30 · Lecture performance by Nina Emge

Nina Emge is a Zurich-based artist who reflects on the social dimensions of sound, voice, silence, and listening practices. Emge's work focuses on issues such as decentralisation, shared working methods, and redistribution. This is evident in both her installations and drawings, which reflect her research and archival work, and the production processes of her artworks. For Listening Other·Wise, she will create an
interweave of mixed sounds, texts, and short interviews to discuss how listening practices can contribute to thinking about sociopolitical relationships, common spaces and democratic cohabitation.

Nina Emge is an active member of the Transnational Sound Initiative. Her work has been exhibited at the Halle für Kunst in Lüneburg, the Lagos Biennale, Biennale Son, WAF Vienna, Kunsthalle Zürich, Kunsthalle Bern, Istituto Svizzero Rom, Istituto Svizzero Palermo, Frac Bretagne + Centre Culturel Suisse à Paris, Uferhallen Berlin, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Helmhaus Zürich, and other national and international institutions. She is also a member of the Art in Space and Time team at ETH Zurich.

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15:30 · Lecture by Leah Bassel

Leah Bassel explores listening as a social and political practice, in contrast to the more common focus on voice and speaking. Her Book, The Politics of Listening: Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life, draws on cases from Canada, France and the United Kingdom, exploring: minority women and debates over culture and religion; riots and young men in France and England; citizen journalism and the
creative use of different media; and solidarity between migrant justice and indigenous activists. Analysis across these diverse settings considers whether and how a politics of listening, which demands that the roles of speakers and listeners change, can be undertaken in adversarial and tense political moments. Bassel argues that such a practice has the potential to create new ways of being and acting
together, as political equals who are heard on their own terms.

Leah Bassel is Professor of Politics and International Studies at Coventry University, in the UK. Her research interests cover the political sociology of migration, intersectionality and citizenship. Bassel’s books include The Politics of Listening: Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life (Palgrave, 2017) and Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain (Policy Press 2017), which was co-authored with Akwugo Emejulu. Before pursuing an academic career, Bassel was an emergency outreach worker in Paris, where she provided humanitarian assistance to asylum seekers and created a circus camp project for refugee youth.

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16:30-17:00 · Closing discussion of the programme

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Landscape image: Mort Drew by Lucien Mc Sally 2024
Vertical image: The Forest Echoes Back Project, Nele Möller.
B&W image: Listening through Bert Theis’ F.M.1, F.M.2, F.M.3, F.M.4, F.M.5, 1999 installation at MUDAM Luxembourg. Photo made by David Berg.