Attunements: Listening, Writing, Walking

How can we understand speech and sound as situated? And how might we speak, write, and listen across our mother tongues?

How can we understand speech and sound as situated? And how might we speak, write, and listen across our mother tongues?

This workshop opens with a collective listening and writing session in which pantea shares the process behind the book Maram-nameh. A multilingual inquiry into relation, care, and ethical attunement, Maram-nameh is partly developed in February 2026 during The Walls Have Ears, a sound studies writing residency organised by Sonic Acts and De Ateliers/Woonhuis.

Participants will encounter words across different cultural contexts connected to the book, then transition into a collective writing exercise. Guided by what emerges in the room – and by phrases drawn from their own languages – they will reflect on how language gives shape to artistic and research practices.

The second part of the workshop unfolds as a slow walk around De Ateliers, tracing the bodies of water that weave through the surrounding public space. Through listening in motion, attention shifts to how paths, canals, and collective rhythm shape the ways language surfaces between bodies, landscapes, and one another. The session returns to De Ateliers for a closing reflection, accompanied by tea and snacks.

The sound studies writing residency – titled The Walls Have Ears – takes place in February 2026 and offers time, space, and critical support for one artist-researcher to develop a focused writing project exploring listening as a radical and empathetic practice. pantea, who has been selected as fellow for this programme, hosts this public event as part of her residency. She will also give a lecture at the Sonic Acts Biennial Symposium at the Stedelijk Museum.

This programme is developed in partnership with Sonic Acts.