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Uncharted sonic spaces: accessibility, collaboration and exploration in the context of Sound Arts

Plenary Session
21 August 2025
11:00 - 12:00 hrs (GMT + 7)
C501

Professor Dr. Teresa Carrasco

Head, Sound Arts department at the Hochschule der Künste in Bern 

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This lecture aims to explore alternative approaches to accessibility in music education through sound arts. It advocates shifting away from traditional classical paradigms to create new spaces for imagination, creative exploration and artistic innovation. This approach adopts sound itself as a central medium for artistic expression. It is grounded in the premise that accessibility must extend, enabling the participation of individuals from diverse backgrounds and interest, bound together by the ability to create, communicate, and transform through sound. Anchored in the principles of diversity and inclusion, the framework prioritizes collaborative creation as a pedagogical and artistic strategy. Key practices include collective listening sessions, group recording projects and collective authorship of sound-based compositions and performances. These pursuits foster shared responsibility for artistic outcomes and encourage learning through dialogue, reflection and mutual exchange. 


Public spaces are engaged not only as sources of sonic material but also as unconventional performative spaces, where environmental settings, urban resonances, and site-specific acoustics are reimagined as instruments in their own right. Interaction with these spaces foregrounds the social, political, and ecological dimensions of sound, revealing its capacity to operate simultaneously as aesthetic medium and critical discourse. 


Within this paradigm, Sound Arts are understood as a transformative process—one that reshapes not only creative practice but also perception, consciousness, and interaction. Participants undergo a shift from passive hearing to active listening, developing heightened sensitivity to sonic detail and spatial nuance. 


This transformation expands the scope of artistic practice while fostering reflective, inclusive communities attuned to the interplay between sound, society, and environment. The transformative potential of sound art lies in its ability to reconfigure how we listen, create, and inhabit the world, positioning sound as a dynamic agent of cultural and ecological engagement.

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