Get stuck into hands-on sessions and collective experiments led by artists! These workshops spark new ways of thinking through sound, writing, and embodied research – from art criticism and radio-making to composition and guided excursions.

The longest-running workshops include Feedback Loops, focusing on critical writing and reflection, which explores how thought and language can take sonic form through an audio essay, broadcast by Echobox Radio. The Spatial Sound Course at the Rijksakademie, led by artist and educator Ji Youn Kang, provides an in-depth investigation into the relationship between sound and space, bringing together artists, composers, and researchers to experiment with acoustic phenomena, live performance, and immersive listening environments.

There is also a series of short, one-day workshops open to all, such as A Poetics of Testimony and Witness by Ayesha Hameed, which explores how poetry can carry the pressures of community, war, and speculative futures; Redistributing Solidarity by Joachim H. Ben Yakoub and Reem Shilleh, which examines memorial restitution and how sound can carry memories of past communities and political work; and Public Attention by Roman Tkachenko, a sound-based session on collective rhythm, sonic togetherness, and grassroots forms of resistance. Also, pantea, selected for the Sonic Acts’ The Walls Have Ears residency, hosts Attunements: Listening, Writing, Walking, a multi-lingual exploration of how languages flow through us.