WorkshopOn Rythming / Sonic Kitchen workshop contribution

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies (IKK) University of Copenhagen (KU)

Concept

Sounds are situated. They can neither be separated from the event of their happenings, nor from our own experiences of them. One of the challenges for researchers of sound is understanding how the different dimensions of this situatedness can be more fully addressed.

This workshop will develop a working concept of rhythming to get even closer to the complex physical, material, spiritual entanglements of sonic experience and research. How does transdisciplinary work on rhythming enrich sonic thinking?
Different kinds of embodied acts are key to rhythming. It’s through engaging multiple perspectives of hearing and sounding that we can perceive the temporal, spatial, corporeal, poetic forces making up everyday practices and relations.

The workshop gathers together a diverse range of researchers and practitioners, notably historians, anthropologists, artists and cooks. We will share aspects of our expertise, research questions and working methods through talks, and we will engage in collective exploratory experiences. Through this multimodal event, participants are encouraged to thus

• revisit their own experiential, theoretical and sensual engagement with/on rhythming, and to

• probe how new epistemologies, desiderata or sonic artefacts of/on rhythming may emerge in the space-time of the workshop.