Climata - A Hub for Sound and Ecology

June 2021

Founding Artists: Siri Austeen, Nicholas John Jones, Sarah Kazmi, Margrethe Iren Pettersen, Lasse-Marc Riek, Elly Stormer Vadseth, Geraldine Vanspauwen, and Maria Wang Kvalheim
Collaborators: Goethe Insitut Norway, Gruenrekorder
Design: Anton Benois, Joar Glosvik, Nicholas John Jones
Web Development: Joar Glosvik

Climata - A hub for sound and ecology is a projected open-access database of field sound recordings relating to environment. The hub is intended to be global, flexible and responsive, and its range of formats and content will develop over time in response to community suggestions.

We hope you will enjoy listening to its recordings from around the globe, and we also actively welcome your contributions: your own sound recordings can be included by following the simple instructions that introduce each section of the hub.

Climata - A hub for sound and ecology launches with a selection of sonic exercises developed by participants in PRAKSIS’s seventeenth residency, Climata – Capturing Change at a time of Ecological Crisis.

R17’s participants were Siri Austeen (NO), Sarah Kazmi (PK), Margrethe Iren Pettersen (NO), Lasse-Marc Riek (DE), Elly Stormer Vadseth (NO), Gustavo Valdivia (PE), Geraldine Vanspauwen (BE), and Maria Wang Kvalheim (NO). Their specialisms including sound arts and technology, video, installation, performance, scenography, poetry, anthropology, art history and philosophy. Responding to Covid-19 restrictions, this residency was conducted entirely online.

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From the Climata hub

Climata - A hub for sound and ecology is developed by PRAKSIS and the residents of Climata – Capturing Change at a Time of Ecological Crisis in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Norway. The residency explored acoustic ecology, bio-acoustics and soundscapes and was run by PRAKSIS together with Lasse-Marc Riek and the Goethe Institut. It included collaborations with the Norsk Teknisk Museum (The National Museum of Technology, Norway) and Gruenrekorder.