Field recording Workshop – Felicity Mangan

Felicity Mangan's field recording workshop takes the form of Quasi-bioacoustic field trip, a playful take on bioacoustic monitoring: a practice that enables scientists to witness, listen to and care for changing acoustic ecologies. Participants enact their own form of monitoring in Weimar's urban context, paying attention to the microsonic environments that appear between the rhythms of everyday life.

Working with portable recording equipment, the group explores listening through resonating found objects. These objects become hearing aids or quasi-scientific listening devices, supporting acts of eavesdropping and recording. The workshop turns the city into an acoustic field site and considers how listening can be extended, redirected and made attentive to small-scale sonic activity.

Felicity Mangan is an Australian artist and composer based in Berlin. Influenced by wetlands, waterways and soil, she combines field recording, electroacoustic composition and electronic music to make immersive quasi-bioacoustic work. Her compositions have appeared in installations, live performances, site-specific settings and publications, including releases on Longform Editions, Mappa Editions, One Instrument and other labels.