Parasonic    04.03.25 & 09.04.25    Marie Thompson   4 March 2025   09h00-12h00 ECAL/Leenaards room         Hannah Catherine Jones   09 April 2025   13h30-18h30 ECAL/Leenaards room - 16h30 ECAL/Studio Cinema        

Marie Thompson
4th March 2025
09:00-12:00 ECAL/Salle Leenaards
Co-founder of the Sonic Cyberfeminisms project and lecturer in popular music at the Open University, her work questions the links between gender, race and listening culture. Most notably the author of Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (2017), Thompson offers an update of her seminal article ‘Whiteness and the Ontological turn in Sound Studies’ (2017).

Hannah Catherine Jones
09 April 2025
13h30-18h30 ECAL/salle Leenaards 16h30 ECAL/Studio Cinema
Lecture and bowls performance by the artist (aka foxymoron), researcher (PhD), multi-instrumentalist, conductor and founder of the queer diasporic choir Chiron Choir, presenter and DJ for BBC Radio/TV and on NTS – The Opera Show. Based in London, their work is all related to institutional decolonisation and the diasporic uses of vibration-frequency-sound-music, particularly in the context of individual and collective healing practices.
With the support of Univers Harmonie (univers-harmonie.ch) Lausanne.