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  • Techniques for Auditory Resistance

    Techniques for Auditory Resistance

    ENROLMENTS NOW OPEN FOR WINTER 2026!

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    Are you a musician who wants to deepen their practice in somatics? An activist who wants to explore field recording and the politics of sound? A performer, filmmaker, or artist who wants to create soundscapes for their works?

    HYENAZ Techniques for Auditory Resistance is not only a workshop in sound design, electronic music production, and field recording, it is an invitation to create works of soundart shaped by the life-worlds of those who gather.

    Workshop Information:

    Workshop Information:
    Dates: Mon 19 January, Wed 21 January, Wed 28 January, Wed 4th February
    Time: 18:00-21:00
    Location: Orchestral Tools, Pfuelstraße 5, 10997, Berlin

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    For HYENAZ, sounds are also bodies: interconnected, multiple, animate. Neither mine nor yours, we encounter sound within a field of power. Through the embodied and unceasing practice of encountering sound as alive, HYENAZ have gathered countless techniques for un-thinking mastery over sound. This is an invitation to share these techniques with you and to invite you to considering the animacies of sound as you work with it as both material and agency.

    Across four weeks you will learn techniques to record the soundscapes and objects of the urban and natural environment, tactics for un/doing the extractive tendencies of artistic practices, methodologies for archiving and text writing, skills to mix and transform these sounds with an attitude of play using a DAW such as Bitwig or Ableton, and finally the confidence to give these works heft through experimental writing and movement exercises.

    By the end of this workshop series, those who take part will be equipped with the tools and knowledge to create unique and powerful sound-based performances.

    UPCOMING Dates

    17 January-4 February 2026 (4 weeks)Orchestral Tools Berlin (Enrolment Form)

    PAST WORKSHOPS

    9 May 2025Placek Festival, Brno, Czechia
    30 June 2022Kampnagel, Hamburg
    16-20 July 2018CLASTIC – European Performing Arts Residency, Valchiusella, Italy
    13-15 October 2017betOnest, Stolpe, Germany
    1-7 July 2017Armenia
    19-21 July 2015Kyiv, Ukraine

    Credits

    Pedagogical ConceptHYENAZ
  • Eaten by the Waves: Taking Sound in an Age of Extraction

    Eaten by the Waves: Taking Sound in an Age of Extraction

    9 May 2025Placek Festival, Brno, Czechia

    Sound is never neutral—it is woven into fabrics of space, power, consent, and history. In this immersive six-hour workshop, artists HYENAZ guide participants through deep listening, field recording, and sound mapping as radical practices of attunement. Through hands-on exercises, discussion, and sonic experimentation, we explore how sound shapes our perception of place, storytelling, and agency in an era of extraction.

    Participants engage in:

    • Embodied Deep Listening — Attuning to the politics of frequency and vibration
    • Ethical Field Recording Tactics — Capturing soundscapes as acts of custodianship, not conquest
    • Alchemical Sound Design — Morphing found audio into musique concrète and speculative atmospheres using open source software
    • Sonic Storytelling — Weaving raw recordings into narratives of place and displacement

    Credits

    Workshop Concept, Design and ExecutionHYENAZ

  • Stillicidum: die Tränen des Steines

    Stillicidum: die Tränen des Steines

    Dates

    4 March 2023Poggiorsini, Italy
    7 March 2023La Mefite di Rocca san Felice, Italy

    Stillicidum: die Tränen des Steines (The Tears of the Stone) reveals how landscapes inscribe themselves onto the senses—through pressure, vibration, and the body’s negotiation with forces that predate and outlast it.

    In the limestone amphitheater of Poggiorsini’s quarry, participants became “weather vanes”, conduits for the stone’s ancient animacy—its latent capacity to act and be acted upon. Following the choreographic score by HYENAZ, participants held and adapted their bodies to channel the energies they encountered, forging a taut circuit between sound and affect.

    On the banks of the toxic sulfur lake La Mefite di Rocca San Felice, the workshop unfolded as a procession. Led by ritualists through a liminal landscape whose noxious gases are fatal to those who linger too long (yet do not allow bodies to decompose), participants traversed the border between living and non-living. Amid vapors bubbling from the earth, those present attuned to the tense symbiosis of life and death within their own organisms and psychologies.

    Credits

    ConceptHYENAZ
    ProductionDonato Laborante, Ferula Ferita
    Documentation (Poggiorsini)Vittoria Elena Simone
  • Art and Extractivism Reading Group

    Art and Extractivism Reading Group

    Dates

    23 & 30 May, 6 & 13 June, 2023Hopscotch Reading Room (Berlin)
    27 June 2022Kampnagel (Hamburg)
    25 September 2022Casa Tranzit (Cluj)
    23 September 2022Atelierele Malmaison (Bucharest)
    14 September 2021Synth Library (Prague)
    14 August 2021Kombinatas Left Festival (Lithuania)

    The reading group prioritizes collective close reading as a deliberate counterpractice to Western academic hegemony, linguistic hierarchies, and the artificial divide between institutional and non-institutional knowledge. Sessions require no long-term commitment, centering accessibility for artists and workers excluded from academic resources or time-intensive research. Non-native speakers are supported through collaborative translation and definition.

    The project interrogates how extractive dynamics—environmental (mineral/gas/water exploitation), intellectual (appropriation of ideas, sounds, labor), and aesthetic (“mining the for branding for branding)—permeate sonic and performative arts. It asks: How do hierarchical collaborations normalize extraction? Can such processes resist their own dynamics? What are the framework’s limits? How might reciprocal artist-subject-nature relations emerge?

    Methodology

    Participants select a text (chapter or excerpt) to read collectively during sessions, rejecting preparatory labor. Dialogue prioritizes utility for members’ real-world work over academic abstraction, resisting institutional pressures by centering non-academics. The group fosters engagement with critical theory outside traditional academic spaces, emphasizing lived experience over performative expertise.