Delta Listening: Streambox workshop with Soundcamp

In this workshop with Soundcamp, we’ll install a DIY radio studio in Het Nieuwe Instituut’s -1 space to think together on how we can make ecological radio. We will cover building low cost field transmitters (streamboxes) which relay live sounds from the surroundings to an internet server for public listening. These devices can be useful for a variety of arts, activist and ecoacoustic projects. We will use a variety of microphone inputs to listen to the different environments around Rotterdam. By placing the streamboxes around the area and using them to listen back together, we hope to open conversations about flat listening and acoustic commons.
Soundcamp are an arts cooperative based in London. They are interested in diy infrastructures that can move live sounds between places and situations, and give attention to less heard human and non-human communities. Their work appears as live transmissions, workshops, sound devices and events.
About Delta Listening
Delta Listening is a series of performance-based events, workshops and radio broadcasts that foreground listening as a creative and critical practice. Delta Listening brings together artists and researchers to reflect on the role listening plays in our relationships to each other and to our environments.
Convened by Brandon LaBelle and Ash Kilmartin, Delta Listening is named for Rotterdam’s location in the Rhine/Meuse/Scheldt delta, and the idea of listening as an agent of change: Delta being a symbol for variation. We invite audiences to listen for and with difference.