Shortwave Collective is an international group of 10 creative practitioners from various backgrounds and disciplines (sound and radio art, activism, social science, media and artistic research) brought together by an interest in feminist practices and the radio spectrum. As a collective, we have a desire to learn together and to open a space to learn together-with-others as equal non-experts. We spend time in each other’s company making, testing, listening and sharing; sometimes ‘failing’, but more often laughing our way into serendipitous results that lead us to new practices and new situated ways of listening. Part of our feminist ethos is ‘learning through doing’. This is a way to de-mystify aspects of technology, which enables us to share our experiences more easily with each other, and with others. The collective’s approach aims to create an inclusive, collaborative, tech-based learning environment, one which acknowledges and attends to gendered education gaps and one that purposefully removes potential hurdles, such as unexplained components lists that assume knowledge.

https://www.shortwavecollective.net/

Alice Eldridge is an interdisciplinarian with an interest in how sound organises systems. Her research integrates ideas and methods from music, cognitive science and ecology to advance theory and methods in the emerging discipline of ecoacoustics, as well as to create experiential soundscapes and ecosystemic music.  Alice holds a BSc in Psychology, an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, and a PhD in Computer Science and AI. She is currently a Professor of Sonic Systems at the University of Sussex where she is joint director of the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab, co-director of the Experimental Music Technology Lab and a fellow of the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme

https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p127749-alice-eldridge

Zeynep Toraman is a composer and scholar from Istanbul, Turkey, living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her practice-based research explores the ways in which texts (in the broadest sense of this word) can interact with one another within the larger framework of musical compositions, by way of thinking of her own library as an archive, and enfolding autobiography, poetry, fiction and history within her works.

Past and recent collaborators include Lauren Cauley, ELISION Ensemble, Ensemble Linea, Quatuor Diotima, Distractfold Ensemble, Ensemble Adapter, Amie Weiss and Nicola Barbieri, Noam Bierstone, and the Wet Ink Ensemble. Her music has been performed at festivals such as Darmstadt Ferienkurse, Summer Academy Schloss Solitude, IRCAM ManiFeste and Wet Ink Large Ensemble Reading. Her research has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Zeynep taught at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and she completed her PhD in  Music Composition at Harvard University in 2023, where she studied with Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku and John Hamilton.

https://zeyneptoraman.com/

Salomé Voegelin is a writer, researcher, and practitioner engaged in listening as a socio-political practice. She works from the relational logic of sound to focus on the in-between and the liminal, where different disciplines meet in the contemporary crises of climate and public health, and where feminist, decolonial, and postanthropocentric realities can engender different and plural knowledge possibilities. She published numerous articles and papers, texts and text-scores for performance and publication, and is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence (2010), Sonic Possible Worlds (2014/21), and The Political Possibility of Sound  (2018). Her most recent publication Uncurating Sound: Knowledge with Voice and Hands, Bloomsbury 2023, moves curation through the double negative of not not to ‘uncuration’: untethering knowledge from the expectations of reference and a canonical frame, and reconsidering art as political not in its message or aim, but by the way it confronts the institution.

Voegelin’s practice engages in participatory, collective and communal approaches: since 2008 she collaborates with David Mollin (Mollin+Voegelin) in a practice that reconsiders socio-political, architectural and aesthetic actualities and sites from the blindspots of a leaky vision, and the possibilities of sound, things, voices and texts. Between 2014-2022 she co-convened PoL, Points of Listening, with Mark Peter Wright. A monthly series of events which engaged communal listening and sound making in relation to current issues such as hearing diversity, sonic pedagogy, care, ecology, gender and technology. It is regenerated, Post-COVID, as a collective and applied design project: Designing a Sonic Planet, taking the invisible and relational as a starting point to employ musical and sonic competencies and knowledge to re-imagine the world. Voegelin is a Professor of Sound at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. She is the PI (Principle Investigator) of the UK research council funded project the Sounding Knowledge Network.

www.salomevoegelin.net

@soundwords_sv

Gilles Aubry is active at the interface between sound and visual arts, experimental music and academic research. As an artist, he creates installations, films, performances and radio pieces exploring sonic materiality and listening processes in relation to affect, coloniality and power. As a researcher, he completed a PhD (2020) on sonic pluralism, embodiment and ecological voices in Morocco, engaging with aural histories and sound practices through artistic collaboration.

www.earpolitics.net

When I started to make electronic things I knew almost nothing about how they work, but with simple solutions, I managed to make usable instruments anyway. For instance, I used a speaker as a relay, where a transistor should have been used. Because of knowing little, I used my creativity in a none efficient way, I invented things that already existed. But I feel proud of these inventions, for instance, the Relay the Vactrol and the Phase Locked Loop. Nowadays I know much more about electronics, but I still want to work the same way as when I started.

https://gijs.gieskes.nl/