Listening to Non-Human Life: Contributors
T-Shine-baba was a recording artist and a household name for many in the Lagos Island environs of Lagos, Nigeria. When he was not singing his delicious mixture of fújì, Afro-pop and Yoruba chanting, he gave tours of his neighbourhood and facilitated youth access to various creative work opportunities as part of the Streetlights Collective employment programme, founded by the hFACTOR Collective. T-Shine sadly passed away in September 2021 and the last performance of Radio Gardening was dedicated to his memory.
John Bingham-Hall is director of Theatrum Mundi and an independent researcher interested in performances, infrastructures, and technologies of public life in the city. He has an academic background in music and architectural theory.
Nicola Di Croce is an architect, musician, sound artist and scholar. He completed his PhD in Regional Planning and public Policies at Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy, and is currently Marie Skłodowska‑Curie Fellow at Iuav and McGill University, Montreal. His research deals with the relationship between urban studies and sound studies.
Juan Guillermo Dumay works in the field of music and sound. His musical compositions and artworks incorporate environmental sounds that bear witness to spaces and places.
Tushar Hathiramani is a creative design and cultural curator concerned with ecosystems and the commons in urban landscapes. Trained in New York, and raised between Lagos and Mumbai, Tushar has a keen sense of designing simply for cross‑platform engagement.
Sepideh Karami is an architect, writer, and researcher with a PhD in Architecture, Critical Studies (KTH), and currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA). She works through artistic research, experimental methods and interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of architecture, performing arts, literature and geology, with the ethos of decolonisation, minor politics and criticality from within.
Elahe Karimnia is an Associate at Theatrum Mundi, leading on Urban Research and Spatial Practice. She is a practicing architect and urban designer, writer and researcher, with a PhD in Urban Studies from KTH, where she’s been teaching since 2017.
Listening With is Alex De Little, Martyna Poznańska, Walker Tufts, Jacob Eriksen, Nik Forrest, Yifeat Zif and Cláudia Martinho. The collective was formed on the basis that in order to survive the present and evolving climate and ecological crises, we need to develop new strategies for existence that celebrate human entanglement with more-than-human others rather than perpetuate those which separate us from them. We are dedicated to exploring and forming sonic ways of becoming-with and alongside non-human others, or what we are terming “sound strategies for survival”.
Nuno da Luz is a sound artist and publisher whose work circumscribes both the aural and the visual in the form of performances, installations and printed matter. His work undulates between noise-making, sonic explorations of place, and book-making through the small press ATLAS Projectos. Recent projects include solo shows Heart of Sky Centro do Vento (gnration, Braga, 2021) and Trnsverbertion (Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon, 2019).
Matilde Meireles is a recordist, sound artist and researcher who makes use of field recordings to compose site-oriented projects. She is interested in the potential of listening across the human spectrum, as well as extra-human sound, as ways to encounter and communicate multiple experiences of the world. Recent releases include Sunnyside with Crónica and Useful Constraints with ToneBurst.
Natasha Nicholson is a data research fellow with South-West Creative Technology Network and partner at charlick+nicholson architects. Her research interests include signal-blocking materials in architectural design and how sonic methodologies can inform our understanding of space, materiality and connection in the urban environment, leading to new spatial practices.
Ruth Oldham is an architect, a translator for the architectural press, and researches and writes about landscape, focusing on artificial topographies.
Gascia Ouzounian is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Oxford, where she directs the project Sonorous Cities: Toward a Sonic Urbanism (SONCITIES). Her work is concerned with the philosophies, technologies, and aesthetic ideologies that shape ideas of sound and space. She is the founder of the label Optophono, which publishes interactive music and sound art, co-director of the research network Recomposing the City, and author of Stereophonic: Sound and Space in Science, Technology, and the Arts (MIT Press, 2021).
Matt Parker is a sonospheric investigator: an artist researching the resonances between things. His research engages with sound studies, media ecology, field recording and geohumanities through a spectral art practice.
Monaí de Paula Antunes is an artistic researcher interested in complexity and communication together with their material, spatial and political entanglements. She holds BA, MFA and MA degrees in Visual Communication and Arts and Media, specializing respectively in Time-based Media, Generative Art and Development of Spatial Systems, all at the Universität der Künste Berlin. She has exhibited at SAVVY Contemporary, transmediale, CTM Festival, European Media Art Festival, Ars Electronica and others.
Niko de Paula Lefort works as a musician, musical instrument developer, field recordist, radio transmission and installation artist and audio technologist. Also known as NikoLFO, he is a resident host on Archipel Stations Community Radio and a co-founder of the record label Portals Editions. De Paula Lefort’s work has appeared in commissions for CTM Festival, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Berghain and the Haus der elecktronischen Künste Basel.
Ahmed and Rashid bin Shabib are both practising urbanists. For over a decade they have researched and written about cities across the Middle East and are the founders of Brownbook magazine. They have produced several exhibitions and publications and have collaborated with Domaine de Boisbuchet (2021), Lars Müller Publishers (2019) Architectural Association (2018), Vitra Design Museum (2017) and the Serpentine Gallery (2016). They were nominated for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2010 and 2019.
Sara Rodrigues is an interdisciplinary artist with a research-led practice, working in audiovisual composition, performance and installation. Her work explores the interconnectedness of humans with their ecosystems, both micro and macro, and is interested in carving out possible forms of co‑liveability and regeneration
Nastassja Simensky is an artist working with writing, performance and moving image. Her current PhD research at the Slade, UCL, explores the potential of collaborative fieldwork and place-specific practice between artists and archaeologists in
the Blackwater Estuary, Essex.
Seetal Solanki is a translator of materials. She is the founder and director of Ma‑tt‑er, a relational practice focused on building and bridging kinships between ourselves, materials, the immaterial and virtual. She is the author of Why Materials Matter (2018), a Textiles Tutor at the Royal College of Art and Associate Lecturer at CSM Spatial Practices MArch, London.
The Sousrealists are a creative research collective on a quest to unpack what lies underneath, unquestioned. Through their experiments in multi-sensory making, performance and creative writing, they question and subvert the default ways humans relate to ourselves, others, and our fellow Earthly lifeforms. The collective consists of MariaEugenia Dominguez, Hannah Rose Fox, Anjali Nair and Miriam Young, with occasional collaborations from rabbits Spot and Thumpkins.
&beyond collective is an international collective of editors, writers and graphic designers specialising in print and digital publishing in architecture and design. The editors of this project are George Kafka and Sophie Lovell, with creative direction and graphic design by Diana Portela and editorial assistance by Fiona Shipwright and Rob Wilson.