Sound Stories: Activating Community Voices in a Collaboratory (2023-25)

Sound Stories: Activating Community Voices in a Collaboratory is a year-long public composition experiment at the University of Minnesota to explore individual and communal resonance and resistance through sound.

The project invites an inter-generational community of participants from diverse occupational, disciplinary, immigrant (settler ancestry included) and artistic backgrounds to play with home-made sound visualizers.

It starts with a basic experimental environment constructed in the physical space of The Hub - a Cymatic or sound visualization room - to learn how community members resonate, envision, and adapt to their environment and to each other in the face of acts of silencing.

This multi-sensorial environment will use the emerging science and art form of Cymatics - the study of the visible effects of sound and resonance - in order to explore our everyday experiences with sounds and their invisibilising by authoritarian regimes.

September 2023-July 2024. Sign up here to participate!

Project Collaborators: Zoe Cinel, Nida Sajid

Supported by: The Hub Residencies, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota