A listening session into ‘the field’: our current resident Nele Möller will bring recordings from her own practice and that of others that raise the question: what actually is a field recording?

Nele Möller (she/her) is a Brussels-based artist working primarily in sound, performance and writing. Her research-based practice focuses on forest conversations, historical nature inscriptions, critical field recording and listening practices. Currently, she is working towards a PhD in the Arts at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts Brussels. Her research project ‘The Forest Echoes Back‘ is embedded in the artistic research cluster ‘deep histories fragile memories‘ and oscillates around the Thuringian Forest in Germany, which is severely impacted by climate change and an adherent bark beetle infestation. Since 2023, she has been producing ‘Listening Fields’ at the free radio station Radio Panik in Brussels. Besides that, she performs under the pseudonym Kimberly Clark and has released recordings on Futura Resistenza and RDS Rec.

Second Sundays is a monthly series initiated by Q-O2. Each session a new guest is invited to share an insight into their own listening, playing and speaking about a selection of sound and music that is important to their thinking or practice. The sessions try to put value on listening to recorded music in a social setting as a space for discussion. Each session is paired with a cocktail-of-the-month, as decided by the invited guest.

Cocktail of the month: Field tonic