Becoming Fireflies @ lac o le mon

an invitation from Silvia Maglioni, Nikolay Oleynikov, Alessandra Pomarico, Graeme Thomson

Firefly Frequencies is a radio platform that brings together artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, activists, theorists and other collaborators from many different countries. For us radio is first and foremost a place of gathering where multiple voices can meet, mix, transform. A membrane, a communal body that perpetually reinvents itself through different modalities and temporalities, through the dimensions of creation and care and the shared powers of reception and receptivity.

We founded Firefly Frequencies towards the end of 2020 as a site of learning and unlearning, a fugitive dwelling place that asks us to attune ourselves as much to the material body of sound and to the sounds and silences of bodies as to the contents of what they express and transmit. A place that interweaves music, sound-art, poetry, storytelling, live performance, conversation, readings, radical politics and the co-construction of alternative knowledges and pedagogies.

This gathering at Lac o Le Mon from the 10th to the 13th of August will focus on practices of affective and deep listening, the kind of listening that is both receptive and that generates responsive modes of sonic expression. In a spirit of co-learning, we will experiment with radio and podcasting in terms of their potentials for sounding, archiving, montage, mixing and commoning within a broad spectrum of temporalities, discourses, sounds and localities. In parallel, we will consider the sonic and radiophonic potentials of sharing the space and living together. In this way, we will consider radio as a space where voices can rethink their place in relation to other sounds and soundings between the human and the non-human. A space for healing, for being together with vibrations, silences and invisible forces, the magic of sonic gifts. A place for solidarity, improvisation, refusal, memory, invention. A place that connects with other spaces and worlds, “where the living can dance with the dead".

The days will be punctuated by a series of exercises in attunement, focusing on listening to the surroundings, to the sounding body, to each other and local communities in order to develop together forms of radical attentiveness inspired by the practice of “deep listening” pioneered by Pauline Oliveros among others.

Living communally, collectively preparing our meals and taking care of the house will be part of our shared time-space.

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