Reserve a mattress for the sleepover here – the event itself is free, with no registration required

Phonic Somnia is a long durational listening event initiated by Nele Möller that takes place over the night of April 5, starting at 18h and ending at 12h on the morning of April 6.

We will gather to listen and think with a live audio stream from a bark beetle-infested site in the Thuringian Forest in Germany. The forest stream was installed in the summer of 2023 to transmit the changing acoustic environment of the forest, which is slowly disappearing as a result of the beetle infestation.

We will start to listen with the sunset and end after the dawn chorus the next day–the two moments when the forest soundscape is the most active. Together, we will explore what it means to listen collectively, remotely, consciously and subconsciously through different modalities of sound and time.

The forest stream will run throughout the whole duration of the event, while different performances and talks will interact with the live acoustics of the forest. You are welcome to join us for the entire event or parts of it. Please register if you want to participate in the sleeping part of the night (from 01h00 until the morning). We only have a limited number of sleeping places.

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