[Commlist] Workshop: Listening In, Sounding Out: Resonances of Future Pasts

*Workshop: Listening In, Sounding Out: Resonances of Future Pasts 
(Dresden, 06.05.-07.05 2023).*

Public Workshop and lecture about difference, the history of sound, and 
the future of speaking and listening in cooperation with the Center of 
Disruption and Societal Change of the TU Dresden  (TUDiSC) and Schaufler 
Lab@TU Dresden.

Organized by Nelly Y. Pinkrah and Michelle Pfeifer at the Chair for 
Digital Cultures, TU Dresden.

Taking place at Festspielhaus Hellerau, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 56, 01109 
Dresden @*Studio B*, Seitengebäude West 01.OG Nordseite

More info at:

_https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/news/listening-in-sounding-out-resonances-of-future-pasts-organized-by-nelly-y-pinkrah-and-michelle-pfeifer-hellerau-may-2023 
<https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/germanistik/digitalcultures/die-professur/news/listening-in-sounding-out-resonances-of-future-pasts-organized-by-nelly-y-pinkrah-and-michelle-pfeifer-hellerau-may-2023>_

Please register at (michelle.pfeifer1 /at/ tu-dresden.de) 
<mailto:(michelle.pfeifer1 /at/ tu-dresden.de)> / (nelly.y.pinkrah /at/ tu-dresden.de) 
<mailto:(nelly.y.pinkrah /at/ tu-dresden.de)>

This workshop asks about places of difference in the history of sonic 
technologies to pose questions and engage different possibilitiesabout 
the future of speaking and listening. As we live in a present with a 
particular imaginary of and relationship to the future (as indicated by 
predictive technologies, climate catastrophe, or financialization), we 
address digital media technology as world-making. We start from the 
proposition that digital media technology is part of the infrastructures 
that provide the conditions of possibility to speak and be heard in the 
first place, to organize and collectivize, and to articulate struggles 
for liberation. At the same time, we want to address how those (sonic) 
infrastructures exist within and operate through extractive capitalism, 
market interests, the nation-state system, and means of oppression. 
Within these tensions, we explore possibilities and formulations of 
listening and speaking and the meanings we assign to the voice and ask 
how these practices are transformed through a present and future 
determined by ubiquitous computation.

Animated by the curiosity in how different groups of people have 
historically defined and used their voice, have produced or filtered out 
noise and engaged in their soundings we will address, among others, 
phenomena such as pervasive consumer technologies based on voice and 
speech recognition, dialect recognition of asylum seekers' testimonies, 
apps used by trans folks to train and transform their voices, and 
assistive technologies innovated and used by disabled people. These 
phenomena and practices point to the materiality of the voice and sound, 
their entanglements with the body and technology, and the cultural 
meanings we assign to the voice and open the following questions:

Given that the voice is a central concept for liberal understandings of 
personhood, testimony, presence, and agency, how are these 
understandings reformulated when speech is refused, when sound is 
distorted? How do we study what is often seen as incomprehensible? How 
might sonic technologies and practices reinscribe racialized, gendered, 
and otherwise discriminatory designs? This workshop will bring together 
scholars in media studies, sound studies, technology studies, 
musicology, and design to ask these questions. Taking place at Hellerau, 
built in 1911 and initially used as a theater and school of Rhythmics, 
and during the festival of contemporary music, the workshop thus also 
explores the role of space and place-making in the history of sound and 
its archives by looking at the literal and symbolic resonances that 
reverberate in the archive and the history of technology.

*Program*

_Saturday, May 6_

10:30-11:00 Arrival and Coffee

11:00-11:30 Welcome: Michelle Pfeifer & Nelly Y. Pinkrah

11:30-12:30 Maren Haffke «Dresden Hauntology»

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:00 Cassius Adair «Sounding Trans»

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17 Performance Lecture by Pedro Oliveira «At the Edge of a 
(unnatural) Boundary»

17-18 Break

18-19:30 Keynotes by

  Nina Eidsheim

«Metaphor as Method: How Metaphors Shape the Listening to Voice»

  &

Alexander G. Weheliye

«Good Days: R&B Music in the Frequencies of the Now»

_Sunday May 7_

10.30-11:00 Arrival and Coffee

11:00-12:00 Luca Soudant «Trans*formative Thinking Through Sound: 
Gender, Sound, and     Queerness Beyond the Human»

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-14:30 Miriam Akkermann «Tracking the ephemeral. How documenting 
the past can        shape the future»

14:30-15:15 Final Discussion

16:30 Performance Esmeralda Conde Ruiz «24/7 – The Performance» @ Großer 
Saal

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