Action Pyramid

𝒜𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒫𝓎𝓇𝒶𝓂𝒾𝒹 “Benim için bu daha çok yakından dinleme eylemiyle ilgili: Fark edilmeyene kulak vererek, küçük ölçeklerde titreşen ama bize varlıkların nasıl birbirine bağlı olduğunu hissettiren o küçük anlara dikkat kesilerek neler öğrenebileceğimizi keşfetmek.” Sanatçılar, @deriinbulat ’ın sorularına Temas Bölgesi’ni bağın içinden nasıl yorumladıklarını anlatarak yanıt verdi. – “For me it’s more about the act of listening closer. Exploring what we can learn by attuning our ears to the unnoticed, by paying attention to the smaller moments that resonate on tiny scales, but with which we can sense how things are interconnected.” The artists responded to @deriinbulat ’s questions by sharing how they interpreted Contact Zone through the vineyard. #actionpyramid #barbarestudio #contactzone #temasbölgesi

I'm so pleased to be finally taking part in a Reveil broadcast with @sound_camp this year. Making the trip down to London this weekend to attempt to set up a hydrophone live stream from a pond, I'll also be on site and pondside Saturday 2-5 to demo some hydrophones and chat freshwater sounds with folks if that floats your boat. Big thanks to @froglifers for the invitation! And to @liamazzari for the equipment lend. It's a great programme too, take a look (link in bio) Soundcamp / Reveil is a recurring work of the Soundcamp Cooperative with Stave Hill Ecological Park (TCV) and the Acoustic Commons network. Streams for the Reveil broadcast, which circles the earth on live audio streams at daybreak on dawn chorus day, are part of the live soundmap project operated by Locus Sonus Vitae at ESAAIX, Aix-en-Provence. They also come from independent projects and the environmental sound community at radio.earth.

A few images from my time at the end of last year in Colombia and Panama attending the @lwcurrent Tropic residency programme with a further two weeks spent on the remote Pacific coast in the Nuqui region.  These areas where tropical rainforest meets both the Caribbean and Pacific oceans are some of the most biodiverse on the planet. It has been a long held dream of mine to experience these types of environments first hand and I feel very privileged and humbled to have been able to meet and learn and listen in such beautiful places. Big thanks to some incredible folks out there including guides Wilberto @ecosoundscape and Sonia, facilitators Andres @hydroskeleton , Joha @joha.capurgalove and Reu @draw.reu along with the amazing hosts of Nacho @ibedialnatural , Gladis and family in Armila - Guna Yala indigenous territory, Panama.  I'm still processing the richness of this special time, all the incredible and varied sonic and cultural encounters, as well as what it meant for me to be over there. I've yet to even properly delve back into my sound recordings and notes but I'm certain this time will be informing some future work in some shape or form. I'm resisting doing one of those end of year summary posts (it was a really pretty stacked one for me) but I feel very fortunate to have had such an amazing 2025.  Wishing you all the best for the coming year!

A big thank to all the DIY enthusiasts who attended our workshop with Mathias Arrignon and Action Pyramid at Listen Gallery. It was a real pleasure to meet you and to see you persevering in assembling your hydrophone. We were amazed how you were trying something new, and sometimes… yes failing at doing something else… but most importantly how you were learning from the experience in a friendly atmosphere! We hope we did spark a new taste for DIY projects and that you’ll continue to practice your skills in using a soldering iron! Talking about these tools, we are happy to announce that we did donate 8 soldering iron kits that were used during this workshop to the Glasgow Tool Library ( @glasgowtoollibrary ), a community run library providing affordable access to tools and equipment for your home, garden and hobbies. We thought it would be great to make those tools available for a greater number of people, so we are encouraging you to consider hiring some tools from them! And last but not least, we also want to share an online document with a selection of DIY resources that is available in @listening.as.porosity link below the bio. We will try to update it with some new projects, knowledge bases and crafty ideas to keep you stimulated! @mathias.arr.tk @actionpyramid @listengallery

It’s been a jam packed and insanely special three days for the @listening.as.porosity project here with @mathias.arr.tk @actionpyramid @meliarog and @colinelachiver . What an amazing group of artists and people! Here’s some snippets from the excellent programme curated by Mathias… it all kicked off with the DIY hydrophone workshop, then listening session on quadrophonic setup and concluding with a public symposium on critical/ethical field recording practices. To the people who came to each event and those who came to all, thank you! Thank you for being so kind, so generous and so supportive of this project but also this space. For being so present in seeing, hearing and feeling. I know I say it a lot but I don’t take this work for granted, it’s truly an honour to be part of this space with you! I also said it during the events but all the equipment at Listen has been donated throughout the years and thanks to Mathias we now have a subwoofer and quadrophonic system for artists to use, what a dream come true!!!! This means even deeper listening futures together 🥹 And last but not least thank you to the super chefs and staff at @palmtreekitchen for the delicious food and always being so good to us xxxx The love is real!!!

Pleased to present another third of ´Listening as Porosity’: Action Pyramid Tom Fisher is a sound artist and musician working primarily under the name Action Pyramid. His projects vary from site-specific sound installations for galleries and museums, to experimental radio works, documentary film and music. His creative practice involves using sound and composition to facilitate a reconsideration of our surroundings, examining the relationship between ourselves and the nonhuman, and our part in the wider ecologies of landscapes. With a multitude of recording techniques, often aimed at exploring and re-interpreting the seemingly unnoticed and unheard elements of our surroundings, he looks to present compositional and spatial expressions of these acoustic phenomena in a way that attempts to offer up alternative perspectives regarding perceptions of scale, hierarchical bias and the interconnectedness of living things. His work has been featured at LUX, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Cafe OTO, The Grant Museum of Zoology, London Transport Museum, Project DIVFUSE, Cody Dock (UK), Musée Réattu, Bibliothèque Nationale de France & Jardin des Plantes (FR), the Fjuk Art Center and Husavik Whale Museum (IS), as well as on BBC Radio 3 & 4, Resonance Fm, Radiophrenia, and as part of Archipel Festival (CH) & Open City Documentary Festival (UK). He is the recipient of Phonurgia Nova Award 2021 in the Field Recording category. He has also led numerous workshops in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University College London and University of the Arts London and participated in artist residencies at RIVERSSSOUNDS (Online/Ukraine/Romania), Fjuk Arts Centre (Iceland), and BioArctica (Finnish Arctic). @actionpyramid @listengallery @listening.as.porosity

PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM Mathias Arrignon, Action Pyramid and Mélia Roger 6 DEC, 2:00PM to 5:30PM To conclude “Listening as Porosity”, the symposium organised by artists Mathias Arrignon, Action Pyramid and Mélia Roger will provide a space for public reflection on the practice of field recording in a contemporary context. Oscillating between its rich potential and its more problematic aspects, the symposium will foster a stimulating critical discourse around the ethics, aesthetics and politics of listening. Through readings, short listening sessions, debates and guided exercises, this event will offer a rare opportunity to learn, unlearn and imagine together a more thoughtful and inclusive practice of field recording. Discussions will address themes such as postcolonialism, extractivism, community collaboration, collective listening, accessibility through DIY resources, inclusivity, ecological awareness, the interaction between the documentary and the imaginary, and listening at different scales. While providing an ideal opportunity to share ideas from sound studies and other disciplines, the symposium will remain convivial and accessible, focusing on topics and approaches that resonate beyond expert circles. The aim is to find a balance between critical depth and open, collective exploration, where curiosity, reflection, and shared experience can come together. Registration •Please register via Eventbrite by following the link in the bio of @listening.as.porosity or @listengallery . •If you are unable to attend, please contact the organiser so that your place can be given to someone else. @mathias.arr.tk @actionpyramid @meliarog @listengallery @colinelachiver @studiocosmogram @creativescots

IMMERSIVE LISTENING SESSION Mathias Arrignon, Action Pyramid and Mélia Roger 5 DEC, 6:30PM to 9:30PM Opportunities remain too rare to listen to field recording pieces together in the same space. The setting for this “Listening as Porosity” evening will be very special: a 4-channel sound system will be installed to offer a slow immersion into a rich variety of places, an ambulation whose sonic coordinates will be unfolded by artists, punctuated by moments of exchange over a free shared meals at Listen Gallery. Mélia Roger will present Dear Phonocene, an audiovisual piece inspired by scientific research on acoustic enrichment and its role in ecosystem restoration. Action Pyramid’s Materials Unknown will share an assemblage of unfamiliar sounds from water bodies, soils, and plant matter, encouraging listeners to navigate the interplay between perception and imagination. Mathias Arrignon’s Brief elegy to the pale will reflect on the allure and loss of Arctic landscapes, using field recordings gathered during an expedition to Svalbard archipelago. Free registration: • Please register via Eventbrite by following the link in the bio of @listening.as.porosity or @listengallery . • If you are unable to attend, please contact the organiser so that your place can be given to someone else. @mathias.arr.tk @actionpyramid @meliarog @listengallery @colinelachiver @studiocosmogram @creativescots

[SOLD OUT] DIY microphone and hydrophone workshop Mathias Arrignon and Action Pyramid 4 DEC, 6PM to 9PM Opening the “Listening as Porosity” series at Listen Gallery, this free workshop invites 15 participants to build their own DIY field recording devices. Led by Mathias Arrignon and Action Pyramid, the session will guide attendees through making a stereo pair of lapel microphones and a hydrophone. Participants will leave with the devices they have built, along with digital learning materials to continue exploring DIY projects independently. Details •⁠ ⁠Free admission – donations encouraged •⁠ ⁠Please arrive 10 minutes early •⁠ ⁠Devices use 3.5 mm mini-jack connectors and require Plug-in Power •⁠ ⁠Bringing a recorder and headphones is welcome but not required Registration •Please register via Eventbrite by following the link in the bio of @listening.as.porosity or @listengallery . •If you are unable to attend, please contact the organiser so that your place in the workshop can be given to someone else. @mathias.arr.tk @actionpyramid @meliarog @listengallery @colinelachiver @studiocosmogram @creativescots

“Listening as Porosity” is more than an event… It is an attempt to create a shared space where we listen, learn, and imagine together for a few minutes, a few hours, a few days, or perhaps even longer. Within Listen Gallery, Mathias Arrignon, Action Pyramid, and Mélia Roger will open their ways of listening, and above all their common attachment in field recording and in its potential to evoke ecological awareness while sparking empathy and critical thinking. Together, we will try to echo the lived reality of making field recordings: traveling elsewhere, near or far, alone or together, with one or two microphones, or with devices shaped by our own hands. Along the way, pauses will invite us to stop. To feel that places are not backdrops but relationships, living archives, reservoirs of memory, fragments of ourselves returning through sound. Listening becomes a form of belonging, a way of shifting our corporeality, and each resonance helps us understand where and how we are in the world. Even in silence, something is always waiting to be met. @mathias.arr.tk @actionpyramid @meliarog @listengallery @colinelachiver @studiocosmogram @creativescots

From 4th to 6th December 2025, Free admission + donations strongly encouraged Listen Gallery, Glasgow G2 8JX “Listening as Porosity” is a three-day public programme imagined by Mathias Arrignon, Action Pyramid and Mélia Roger, focussed on relational field recording practices, and hosted at Listen Gallery. Holding an immersive listening session, a technical workshop, and a concluding public symposium, the event will create an engaging and participatory environment where audiences can experience and reflect on sound in its ecological, cultural, and emotional dimensions. At the heart of “Listening as Porosity” lies the idea of field recording beyond mere documentation, approaching it instead as a porous practice where sound, memory, and imagination interweave. What lies behind the act of playing a recording of a lively forest to a deforested area? Can we scale down our listening to hear the murmur of the soil or the quiet breath of an aquatic plant? Why does the sound of a glacier collapsing create such an emotional resonance in us? How does it feel to use a microphone that you have assembled with your own hands? Why do we record and why does it matter? “Listening as porosity” opens up a carefully crafted space for collective listening, reflection, skill-sharing and encourages the possibility of learning, and mostly unlearning. BOOKING LINK check @listengallery OR @listening.as.porosity link in bio OR shorturl.at/MB9MQ LIST OF EVENTS • DIY MICROPHONE & HYDROPHONE WORKSHOP THURS 4 DEC, 6-9PM • IMMERSIVE LISTENING SESSION FRI 5 DEC, 6:30-9:30PM • PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM SAT 6 DEC 2025, 2-5:30PM ARTISTS Mathias Arrignon @mathias.arr.tk Action Pyramid @actionpyramid Mélia Roger @meliarog VENUE Listen Gallery @listengallery VISUAL DESIGN Coline L’Achiver @colinelachiver Studio Cosmogram @studiocosmogram “Listening as porosity” is supported by the Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals programme @creativescots

Thank you to everyone who joined us on 19 September for the special event 🎶 remnant horizons 🎶, sound performances by felix taylor and Action Pyramid, for and with Crossness Nature Reserve, performed at TACO! (@tracey_aint_coming_out ) At first, we were guided through a meditative listening session by artist and composer felix taylor (@__felixtaylor ), evoking the ebb and flow of the Thames tides as they enter the marshes of Bexley 🌊 Following that, Tom Fisher, aka Action Pyramid (@actionpyramid ), led us on a sound journey, weaving together the voices of Crossness – human and more-than-human alike. The hydroponic sounds of the reserve’s water bodies, the insects populating its plants, activists’ voices, planes, construction work, and birds all came together, highlighting the ongoing struggle to protect the site from further industrial redevelopment 🏭🌾 During the evening, visitors also had the last opportunity to experience Sarah White’s exhibition,🌱 a small call for an ever 🌱, a poignant photographic depiction of the life fighting to survive and thrive within the reserve. We know this is not the end – the seeds planted over the past three years will continue to grow 🌼 🎶 remnant horizons 🎶 was a part of Beneath the Pavement, the Marshes, a three-year artistic research programme bringing together artists, ecologists and activists, with local ecological and community groups working in North Bexley, to explore the ground beneath our feet.