Applied/Experimental Sound Research Laboratory

Preparing analogue sound sources for the ÆSR Labs Presentations on April 23 and Die Lange Nacht der Forschung on Friday, April 24. https://aesr-lab.uni-ak.ac.at/labs

“Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottom of your feet become ears.” — Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditation V (1974) On March 28th, we walked into the bunker beneath Yppenplatz and listened. With skin, bones, breath. We recorded the walls. We whispered to water. Together with @initiative_erinnern_in_zukunft and the Shhh… community. This is what collective listening looks and sounds like. next dates:18.4./ 25.4./ 2.5., always 9:30 am - 12:30 pm This is Shhh… Listening with Waters — a co-creative practice of deep listening, memory, and what the city carries beneath its surface. Join us for the final gathering: Undercurrents – What Waters Remember Listening Walk & Sonic Ritual Fri 8 May · 16:30–20:00 Meeting point: Brunnenpassage · Free entry → [email protected] Undercurrents – What Waters Remember is a cooperation between Brunnenpassage, Initiative Erinnern in Zukunft , Sinopale: International Sinop Biennale, ÆSR Lab, within the frame of Klima Biennale Wien. 🎥 Video: @senemkahramann 🎵 Music: Cosmo Sheldrake — Bodies of Water #Undercurrents #DeepListening #BrunnenpassageWien #KlimaBiennaleWien

ÆSR Outcomes. Closing event of the Applied/Experimental Sound Research Lab On 23 April 2026, from 14:00 to 19:30H, the ÆSR Lab at Rustenschacherallee 2, 1020 Vienna, will present key findings from three years of applied and experimental sound research – featuring open labs, artistic contributions, a sound walk and a panel discussion. About the ÆSR Lab The ÆSR Lab (Applied/Experimental Sound Research Lab) is a modular sound research laboratory at the interface between art and science. As an infrastructure equipped with precision instruments and state-of-the-art technology, it promotes interdisciplinary research and artistic creation and supports the development and testing of new technologies. The ÆSR Lab has been realised over the past three years by the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Support Art and Research) in cooperation with the Artistic Research Center (ARC), the Institute for Composition, Electroacoustics and Sound Engineering (IKE) at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and the Phonogram Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The public closing event “ÆSR Outcomes” offers insights into current artistic productions and research findings, an opportunity to test and listen to various technologies, a search for “sonic ghosts”, and an open discussion on further use and integration into local networks. Programme on 23 April (14:00 to 19:30H): from 14:00H: Open Labs – Material & Restoration / Mobile Lab / Listening Stations 15:00 - 16:00H Presentations: “Sonic Art. Sound as Material in Artistic Practice” 16:00-17:00H Sound Walk: “Ghost Hunt” with Angélica Castelló 17:30–19:00H Open discussion: Sound (art) research in institutions and communities 19:00–19:30H Presentation: Wave field synthesis Where: Rustenschacherallee 2, 1020 Vienna Admission is free and no registration is required. The event will be held in German.

(En/De) A warm thank you to everyone who joined us for the previous session of "Shhh... listening to water" for your presence, attentiveness, and the ways you allowed yourselves to drift, listen, and connect. 🫶🏽💧 We would love to welcome you again in our next workshop, to continue listening, sensing, and unfolding together. ✨ 📅 next dates: 28.3. /4.4. / 18.4./ 25.4./ 2.5., always 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Shhh... Listening with Waters is taking place in the frame of Undercurrents — What Water Remembers, an artistic project in cooperation between Brunnenpassage, Initiative Erinnern in Zukunft, Sinopale: International Sinop Biennale, and ÆSR Lab, within the framework of Klima Biennale Wien. video: @senemkahramann ________________________________________________ Ein herzliches Dankeschön an alle, die bei der letzten Session von „Shhh... Listening to Water“ dabei waren — für eure Präsenz, eure Aufmerksamkeit und die Art und Weise, wie ihr euch dem Treibenlassen, dem Zuhören und der Verbindung geöffnet habt. 🫶🏽💧 Wir würden uns freuen, euch auch bei unserem nächsten Workshop wieder willkommen zu heißen — um gemeinsam weiter zu hören, zu spüren und zu entfalten. ✨ 📅 Nächste Termine: 28.3. / 4.4. / 18.4. / 25.4. / 2.5., jeweils 9:30–12:30 Uhr Shhh... Listening with Waters findet im Rahmen von Undercurrents — What Water Remembers statt, einem künstlerischen Projekt in Kooperation zwischen Brunnenpassage, Initiative Erinnern in Zukunft, Sinopale: International Sinop Biennale und ÆSR Lab, im Rahmen der Klima Biennale Wien. video: @senemkahramann

💧👂🏼💧 UNDERCURRENTS — What Waters Remember Listening Procession and Collective Sonic Ritual Fr 8.5., 4.30-8pm What does the memory of water sound like? The artistic project ‘Undercurrents — What Water Remembers’ explores the city’s waters as resonant spaces of remembrance. The project emerges from the co-creative workshop series ‘Shhh… Listening with Waters’ (October 2025 – May 2026). Rooted in Deep Listening as a political practice, the artistic team — Çiğdem Borucu, Graziele Sena da Silva, Susana Ojeda, and Zuzana Ernst — together with participants, explores water as a carrier of memory, knowledge, and movement. The site-specific focus lies in Vienna’s Brunnenviertel. The artistic work invites participants to attune to invisible underground currents that connect us to the greater water being. In collective listening sessions, voices, sounds, and stories of the neighborhood are gathered — from the market to hidden waterways and the bunker beneath Yppenplatz. These fragments flow into a growing Listening Archive and form the basis of a site-specific sound composition that brings the unheard to the surface. The public listening procession and sonic ritual on May 8, 2026, leads across Brunnenmarkt across Yppenplatz toward the ‘waters that remember’. As an Anti-Fascist Day of Remembrance, it marks a gesture of vigilance against erasure. ‘Undercurrents’ understands collective listening to subterranean currents and concealed histories as a shield against authoritarian narratives and as an invitation to perceive memory as a living, relational process. 📆 SAVE THE DATE: "Shhh... Zuhören mit Wasser" workshops: Kokreatives Labor im Rahmen von Undercurrents Sa 14.3. / Sa 28.3. / Sa 4.4. / Sa 18.4. / Sa 25.4. / Sa 2.5., jeweils 9.30-12.30 Uhr Fr 8.5., 16.30-20 Uhr Undercurrents– Woran Wasser erinnern: Listening Prozession & Klangritua // Undercurrents — What Water Remembers cooperation between Brunnenpassage, Initiative Erinnern in Zukunft, Sinopale: International Sinop Biennale, and ÆSR Lab, within the framework of Klima Biennale Wien.

Prototypical Wavefield Synthesis tests with 56 speakers and two subs at mdw Klangtheater. Very convincing holosonic image! Proud of our 4-inch and 12-inch speaker designs.... Cheers to @faitalpro and @innosonix !

Sound Transmissions – ELAK Werkstattkonzert Sunday 01.02.2026 18:00 Klangtheater @ Future Art Lab Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien works by Fabian Deutsch, Luca Heinrich, Jakob Henneken, Jakob Jelinek, Marija Jociute, Moritz Kolmbauer, Rainer Kremser, Leonie Kudler, Bo Leiter, Gabriel Neumaier, Jan-Eirik Olsen, Rozina Pátkai, Martin Rupp, Sara Sacoto, Markus Sepperer, Simon Spielhofer, Maksym Uvarov, Pehbowen Zheng Kuo and the Sonic Scratch Ensemble artistic and technical supervision by Florian Bogner, Angélica Castelló, Katharina Klement, Patrik Lechner, Maja Osojnik and Thomas Grill

Another big milestone for the ELAK Sound Projection Lab, part of the @aesr_lab research project: The design of our loudspeaker enclosures for @faitalpro 4FE32 drivers has arrived at a final result. We are starting the prints of 256 enclosures from PETG for indoor use and 32 enclosures from Greentec Pro for mobile use. The speakers will be powered by @innosonix LP2 amps.

✨ Thank you, Yuri ✨ We’re grateful to Yuri Tuma (@ytuma ) for guiding us through a thoughtful and inspiring course, and to all participants for their engaged presence throughout. 🎧🌿 Together, participants explored how listening can shape the understanding of planetary connections — from urban soundscapes to interspecies communication. Through theory, artistic practice and shared discussions, the course opened up new ways of thinking about sound and ecology. Thank you, Yuri, for creating a space that invited reflection, exchange, and curiosity. And thanks to everyone who joined and contributed to this experience. The lecture was part of the ÆSR Lab - Applied/Experimental Sound Research Laboratory. ÆSR Lab is a collaborative project between the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Artistic Research Center (ARC) at the Institute for Composition, Electroacoustic, and Sound Engineering (IKE) at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and the PhA - Phonogram Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Yuri Tuma is co-founder and artistic co-director of the Institute for Postnatural Studies. Pictures: Manu Drexler #YuriTuma #AESRLab #SoundEcology

The current courses for the coming winter semester are available from today at https://aesr-lab.uni-ak.ac.at/teaching. We look forward to welcome you! 🔊🔊🔊

Greetings from Tirol ⛰️ Our mobile Lab is currently on a research trip in Innsbruck where Ricarda Denzer is working on her project connected to Gedenkort Reichenau.

JOIN US at Angewandte Festival! ÆSR Lab - Applied/Experimental Sound Research Lab presents its MOBILE LAB at Angewandte Festival on 26. of June. The MOBILE LAB will be located at Oskar Kokoschka Platz in the parking area in the courtyard. Start 18:00H: students from the Digital Art department will use the lab as part of Nicolaj Kirisits seminar „Sonic Fiction“ and present their sonic interventions. PLEASE NOTE: the planned „ELAK Sommerkonzerte“ event, which were set for Wed. 25th has to move from Angewandte Festival to Klangtheater @ Future Art LAB, mdw - University of Music and performing Arts, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien