Drawing on field recordings featured in Future Sonic Ecologies, participants engage in deep listening exercises that attune them to the layered rhythms of mangrove worlds—tides, wind, animal activity, and distant human infrastructures. Through guided prompts and writing experiments, attendees transform sonic impressions into creative texts that reflect ecological change, interdependence and regenerative futures.
The session concludes with an optional sharing circle, inviting participants to voice their pieces and consider how creative writing can deepen environmental awareness. What stories emerge when we let the sonic world speak first?
This public program is presented by RMIT University as part of the exhibition 'Future Sonic Ecologies" at First Site Gallery.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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