Presentation short abstract

A participatory session using contact mics, phones, and sensors to explore listening as eco-political sensing. Together we test illusions, patterns, and vibration to show how bodies and environments create meaning.

Presentation long abstract

Drawing on concepts of pareidolia, phantom words (Deutsch), and historical accounts of voice-hearing in resonance with church bells (Schafer; Truax), this exercise proposes transception as a method for sensing: the co-production of meaning through transmission and reception. Participants will engage in a series of playful, critical exercises that reveal how listening is not passive detection, but a dialectical, collective, and imaginative process in which gradual and convulsive ecological transformations become audible. “Eco-sensing” is a way of acting, be that hands-on games or workshops for neighborhood youth, it exposes, rather than distracts from, contemporary ecological challenges, including the politics of social media, and invites collaborative reflection on how embodied listening can reclaim technologies from enclosure and inspire new forms of kinship and ecological understanding.