Latest revision as of 18:03, 21 November 2024

Sounds from Earth @ NDSM
Name	Sounds from Earth @ NDSM
Location	H&D Studio, NDSM-plein 127
Date	2024/12/07
Time	11:00—13:30
PeopleOrganisations	Hackers & Designers, dianaband, Hee-Ju Lim
Type	[[]]
Web	Yes
Print	No

After 2 wonderful weeks in Korea during which H&D, dianaband and Hee-ju developed 'Sounds from Earth,' the workshop is now finally coming to Amsterdam! Are you between 10 to 100 years old? Join us at our NDSM studio for this special hands-on worldbuilding workshop!

Sounds from Earth is about world-building, live-action role-play, and working with simple electronics. We invite participants to co-create a fictional story while building a network of small electronic objects. The purpose of the network is to (re)connect to and communicate with our environment. It will be a 'sounding' network and allows us to communicate beyond the use of words and to interact with approach “nature” not as something to dominate and extract from but as something we are part of and live with and we need to relearn to attune to.

The workshops are open to participants with different technological abilities and of various ages, from teenagers to elders and everything in between. We will bring our imagination together to connect to the environment and other-than-human entities through non-verbal communication. Inspired by natural networks of communication such as mycelium, we ask ourselves how we can enter into meaningful exchange with the world around us and achieve a deeper sense of interconnectedness.

What information do we collect around us, what is legible, and what do we understand, interpret, and project meaning onto? What is lost in translation? Can we get comfortable with the miscommunications and the unknown?

Lore

Together we are a forest!

it doesn't matter what shape we have in this forest or what sounds we make, we are all interconnected into a chaotic polyphony. We each have our own personality but make sense as a whole. The wind is a vital force in our ecosystem and accompanies us through our cycles. Its unpredictable nature maintains our community, it's bringing us the energy we need in mysterious ways.

An echo in the wind brought us a rumor: the wind could become still, which would threaten our unique ecosystem's equilibrium... and sooner than we can imagine... we know that, because we attune to the wind and to each other in our own unique way . We do so with the help of symbiotic companions that help us channeling messages of the wind and carry our worries and hopes for the wind to consider.

The wind doesn't understand words, only maybe intentions through sounds, vibrations and blows, that is how we send and interpret messages.

Our companions are made of extracted minerals and oils transformed into components that we found discarded from others in our ecosystem...

When the wind blows with a certain strength and in a certain direction, we come together to send our wishes to the wind.....

Workshop Details & Sign up!

Time: 11:00-13:30
Price: 5,00 (free for accompanying parents) + if you join the workshop you get free entrance to our event at OCCII in the evening!
Capacity: 20 participants
Sign up by sending an email using this link. Information you share with us will be used only for communication and discarded after the event. More in our Privacy text :)

Background

Sounds from Earth is a collaborative project between the Netherlands and South Korea, involving Hackers & Designers, dianaband, and Hee-ju. It explores the ecological impacts of modern technology, from large data centers that harm local habitats to fiber optic cables that affect marine life through heat, turbidity, and risks like sea life entanglement. The project also examines the environmental damage caused by deep-sea interventions and terrestrial mining for materials like lithium and cobalt, used in tech devices, highlighting their role in resource depletion, geopolitical tensions, and unequal wealth distribution.

Sounds from Earth is supported by The Cultural Participation Fund. The Cultural Participation Fund aims to encourage and increase participation in the arts and culture.

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-After 2 wonderful weeks in Korea during which H&D, dianaband and Hee-ju developed and facilitated first iterations of the workshop, Sounds from Earth is now finally coming to Amsterdam!
+After 2 wonderful weeks in Korea during which H&D, dianaband and Hee-ju developed 'Sounds from Earth,' the workshop is now finally coming to Amsterdam!
-Join us at our NDSM studio''' for this workshop, which is open to participants from 10 to 100 years old!'''
+'''Are you between 10 to 100 years old?''' Join us at our NDSM studio for this special hands-on worldbuilding workshop!
-[[File:Bottlefactory.jpg|thumb|photo from Sounds from Earth at Bottle Factory in Seoul in September 2024]]
+[[File:SfE-5.jpg]]
+Sounds from Earth is about world-building, live-action role-play, and working with simple electronics. We invite participants to co-create a fictional story while building a network of small electronic objects. The purpose of the network is to (re)connect to and communicate with our environment. It will be a 'sounding' network and allows us to communicate beyond the use of words and to interact with approach “nature” not as something to dominate and extract from but as something we are part of and live with and we need to relearn to attune to.
-A program of sound explorations will take place in the evening at OCCII.
+The workshops are open to participants with different technological abilities and of various ages, from teenagers to elders and everything in between. We will bring our imagination together to connect to the environment and other-than-human entities through non-verbal communication. Inspired by natural networks of communication such as mycelium, we ask ourselves how we can enter into meaningful exchange with the world around us and achieve a deeper sense of interconnectedness.
-Sounds from Earth is a series of workshops about world-building, live-action role-play, and working with simple electronics. We invite participants to co-create a fictional narrative while building a network of small electronic objects that facilitate (re)connection to and communication with our surroundings. The sounding network explores communication beyond the use of words, allowing to approach “nature” not as something to dominate and extract from but as something we are part of and live with and we need to relearn to attune to.
+What information do we collect around us, what is legible, and what do we understand, interpret, and project meaning onto? What is lost in translation? Can we get comfortable with the miscommunications and the unknown?
-=Context=
-Sounds from Earth is a collaborative artistic exploration between the Netherlands and South-Korea, Hackers & Designers, dianaband and Hee-ju, that aims to create a space to critically and imaginatively address the ecological impact of user technologies: from the construction of large-scale data centers that damage or even erase local habitats, to the fiber optic cables that impact the marine environment through heat, turbidity (during cable burial), risk of fatal entanglement of sea life and the introduction of artificial substrates into the ecosystem. Interventions into the deep-sea environment as well as terrestrial mining used to source materials such as lithium or cobalt for chips and other components inside our communication devices and network infrastructures are exhausting the earth and are the cause of geopolitical tensions and asymmetrical distribution of wealth and power.
-The workshop is developed over different iterations, during which participants join in co-creating new collective imaginaries and narratives around alternative, regenerative formats and devices for networked communication and eco-conscious interfacing with our environments. The workshops are open to participants with different technological abilities and of various ages, from teenagers to elders and everything in between.
-In this workshops we will bring tools, skills, and pedagogies together to explore our relation to the environment through non-verbal communication with other-than-human entities. Inspired by natural networks of communication such as mycelium, we ask ourselves how we can enter into meaningful, reciprocal dialogue with the world around us and achieve a deeper sense of interconnectedness.
-What information do we collect around us, what is legible, and what do we understand, interpret, and project meaning onto? What is lost in translation? Can we get comfortable with the miscommunications and the unknown?
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 =Lore=
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 =Workshop Details & Sign up!=
 * Time: 11:00-13:30
-* Price: 5,00 (free for accompanying parents) + if you join the workshop you can come for free at occii in the evening!
+* Price: 5,00 (free for accompanying parents) + if you join the workshop you get free entrance to[[Sounds from Earth: an evening of open source sound experimentations @ occii | our event at OCCII]] in the evening!
 * Capacity: 20 participants
 * Sign up by [mailto:info@hackersanddesigners.nl?subject=%5B%20SOUNDS%20%20FROM%20EARTH%20%%5D232&body=Hello%2C%0A%0APlease%20sign%20us%20up%20for%20the%20SOUNDS%20FROM%20EARTH%20workshop%20on%20the%207th%20of%20December.%0A%0AMy%20name%3A%20%0AMy%20age%3A%20%0AMy%20preferred%20pronouns%3A%20%0AMy%20access%20needs%3A%0A%0AMy%20Parent's%20Name%3A%20%0AMy%20MyMy%20Parent's%20preferred%20pronouns%3A%20%0AMy%20Parent's%20access%20needs%3A%0A%0AKind%20regards%2C sending an email using this link]. Information you share with us will be used only for communication and discarded after the event. More in our [[Privacy|Privacy text]] :)
+=Background=
+Sounds from Earth is a collaborative project between the Netherlands and South Korea, involving Hackers & Designers, dianaband, and Hee-ju. It explores the ecological impacts of modern technology, from large data centers that harm local habitats to fiber optic cables that affect marine life through heat, turbidity, and risks like sea life entanglement. The project also examines the environmental damage caused by deep-sea interventions and terrestrial mining for materials like lithium and cobalt, used in tech devices, highlighting their role in resource depletion, geopolitical tensions, and unequal wealth distribution.
-Sounds from Earth is supported by [https://cultuurparticipatie.nl/ The Cultural Participation Fund].
+Sounds from Earth is supported by [https://cultuurparticipatie.nl/ The Cultural Participation Fund]. The Cultural Participation Fund aims to encourage and increase participation in the arts and culture.
-The Cultural Participation Fund aims to encourage and increase participation in the arts and culture.
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