Artists
Anouk Kellner
FORMAT : Installation w. performance
TITLE : Airchoir No. 2: Dirges for (26) Coded Organ Voices, 2024
TITLE : Airchoir No. 2: Dirges for (26) Coded Organ Voices, 2024
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
PLACE : TBA
Anouk Kellner is a sound artist and composer based in Belgium. Her interest in the church organ instrument issomething that appears frequently in her latest work. Blending this with new technologies and experimentation, she wants to create worlds of sound, exploring textures and storylines.
Audio, textile and technology come together in « Airchoir No. 2 » . The inflatables breathe in and out like lungsand make their voices heard through the organ pipes to which they are connected. Like a choir, they sing programmed compositions. The Airchoir represents a duality within ourselves, longing for connection within an increasingly technological world. At the same time, it refers to our religious past: it gives new meaning to the organ and searches for new sound textures in the pipes.
Photo : Isaac Ponseele
Ariel Orah & Pedro Oliveira
FORMAT : Lecture+performance
TITLE : Jendela Sonorama
TIME : Friday, August 15 I 11:15-12:15 | 13:15-14:00
PLACE : Søsportens Hus, Struer
PLACE : Søsportens Hus, Struer
Jendela Sonorama is a communal listening session and spontaneous composition lecture-performance. They unpack affective sonic histories from their record collections that deal with the often violent devices, legacies, and complexities of colonialism. Each session questions, ideas of “national identity” – historically and in times of "polycrises" such as now – in plural and multifaceted South-South dialogues not only between Indonesia and Brazil, but also extending the conversation to Europe, its diaspora, and its limits.
Ariel Orah is an Indonesian sound artist.
Pedro Oliveira is a Brazilian artist and researcher.
Photo : Hani Hamza
Bureau for Listening
FORMAT : Installation + Performance
TITLE : Borgerservice for Listening
TIME : TBA
PLACE : Borgerservice (Citizen Service) , Struer
PLACE : Borgerservice (Citizen Service) , Struer
Borgerservice for Listening is an artistic exploration of listening as a civic practice. Through installations, performances, and participatory experiences, the project transforms Struer’s citizen service into a space for attentive listening. By integrating listening into institutional and urban contexts, the work invites reflection on how listening shapes our social and political environments. The project is a site-specific manifestation of the Bureau for Listening.
Bureau for Listening (2021–) is an artist and research group investigating and promoting listening as critical, empathic, and artistic practice. We work nomadic, transdisciplinary, and strive to engage others in shared practices and projects.
Diane Barbé
FORMAT : Performance
TITLE : Signe Singe
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
PLACE : TBA
How do we know a dog is a dog, a nightingale is a nightingale, and a flute is a flute? Playing with sound morphings and disrupting assumptions, this live performance proposes an immersion into various sonic universes. Based on field recordings taken in altered settings in the Ariège region of the Pyrenees, the vignettes work to decompose what makes us able to understand space and identity through sound, exploring transspecies morphings and alternative ecological relations. This is a extended live version of Signe Singe, a new spatial composition that will be heard on the acousmonium of the GRM in Paris in November 2025.
Diane Barbé explores the intersections of ecology and experimental music, working with field recording as much as with additive synthesis and wind instruments. Diane builds many of these instruments –whistles, flutes, globules, percussions– and develops collective music practices through the project The Alien Kin, which has run since 2022 in Germany, France, Brasil and Spain. Her latest album, Musiques Tourbes, came out on the Berlin-based label of phonography and attentive listening, forms of minutiae.
Photo : Peter Arun Pfaff
Donna Simonsen
FORMAT : Installation
TITLE : Qallunaaq (Dansker), 2024
TIME : TBA
PLACE : Townhall, Struer
PLACE : Townhall, Struer
Experience the visual dialogue of identity, where the threads of Greenlandic and Danish cultures intertwine, revealing the complexities of heritage and modernity.
This artwork delves into the complex journey of identity, focusing on the transition from Greenlandic to Danish cultural identification. It uses abstract representation and symbolic elements, including traditional clothing, to convey the tension between Inuit and Danish identities. The piece highlights the emotional and cultural dynamics of navigating dual identities, shedding light on the impact of colonization and decolonization on Greenlandic culture and the Inuit people.
Donna Simonsen is a visual artist working with video, painting, and sculpture. Her work explores identity, heritage, and the ties between Greenland and Denmark. As an Inuk raised in Denmark, she reflects on cultural displacement and identity. Using provocation, she challenges racism and colonial narratives, inviting viewers to confront history and see Greenlandic culture from new perspectives.
Ensemble MidtVest
FORMAT : Jam Session
TIME : 14:00-16:00
PLACE : Folkets Hus, Struer
PLACE : Folkets Hus, Struer
Ensemble MidtVest is honored to invite all other artists of Struer TRACKS 2025 for a jam session where classical music, improvisation, sound art can all mix to present something new and unique. EMV is known for their high quality music making with pieces by, among others, Johann Sebastian Bach, Fazil Say and Gyorgy Ligeti ; but also for their classical improvisation skills. In this latter we will jam with sound artists of this year’s biennale to build new connections and new communities.
EMV plays chamber music and creates musical experiences beyond the edge of the stage.
They live in the tension between traditional chamber concerts and new innovative formats, where they challenge the expressive possibilities of chamber music and unfold the last 500 years of classical repertoire and free improvisation.
EMV was established in 2002 and consists of 9 classical musicians who together make up a string trio, a wind quintet and a pianist.
Photo : Andrej Grilc
EX CONTINENT
FORMAT : Performance
TITLE : SDSDS #6 Good Praxis
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
PLACE : TBA
SDSDS is an exercise in the organisation of sounds and events. Using synthesis and mechanical devices it intends to encourage the listener to have a phenomenological engagement with non-hierarchical horizons of perception opening up around them. These “group oriented” works are formalised through the decentralisation, amplification and regrouping of systems as they coexist and communicate with each other, enabling the interaction of all possible elements as part of the same habitat.
Ex Continent’s work explores specific sensory environments which dramatise the relationships between the elements that inhabit them and their singularities. This practice aims to study the dynamics, expectations and interactions that usually appear around the act of listening and the experiencing of phenomena from a physical as well as a metaphysical perspective. Through the experimentation with sound from non-musical disciplines, this is scattered and associations are forced, which at times involve the observation of material conditions and their origins.
Photo : Violeta Mayoral
Frederik Blicher & Steffen Mazivila Lystlund
FORMAT : TBA
TITLE : TBA
TIME : TBA
PLACE : Kurbadet Limfjorden, Struer
Frederik Blicher & Steffen Mazivila Lystlund
Music and Co-Creation, The Royal Academy of Music, Holstebro
Music and Co-Creation, The Royal Academy of Music, Holstebro
Frederik Blicher and Steffen Mazivila Lystlund, both students in the new bachelor program Music and Co-Creation at the Royal Academy of Music in Holstebro, present their site-specific sound works created for Kurbadet Limfjorden in Struer.
The works have been developed as part of an elective course formed through a collaboration between Sound Art Lab and the Royal Academy of Music. The students were invited to create one or more sound pieces specifically designed for the unique sensory environment of the spa, to be premiered during Struer Tracks 2025.
The students have been guided by their lecturer, Símun Lindholm Mohr, and have received professional and artistic input from artist Joel Cahen — founder of Wet Sounds and a specialist in underwater listening experiences.
This collaboration is part of the project Sounds of The Future, which is made in a collaboration between Spor Festival in Aarhus and Sound Art Lab in Struer supported by the Cultural Development Fund of the Central Region in Denmark.
Good Praxis
FORMAT : Workshop/Performance
TITLE : Good Praxis Workshop
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
PLACE : TBA
How can we deal with art/sound practice as we face fascism and climate collapse? In this workshop we'll explore how we can desire the world differently. The workshop will focus on the attendees' desires, abilities and needs to form groups that would create works that were an expression of their revolutionary feelings. By doing so, the workshop is a collaborative pedagogical improvisation that leads to a spontaneous celebration of collective creativity.
Good Praxis is art education for climate justice, celebrating successful models of resistance and regeneration through workshops, assemblies and club nights. "With our work we want to make revolution irresistible. 500 years of capitalism have brought the world to the brink of collapse, through plunder, exploitation and exhaustion. Only a new consciousness, a new culture and a new way of living together can save the planet. To realise this we must desire the world differently."
Photo : Justin Ugochukwu
Julie Nymann
FORMAT : Installation
TITLE : Advantages of being dyslexic, 2024
TIME : TBA
PLACE : Struer Museum, Struer
PLACE : Struer Museum, Struer
Step into a space where dyslexia is a superpower, challenging perceptions and embracing neurodiversity.
This sound installation, set in a 5x5 meter green fabric room, shares stories from over 80 participants living with dyslexia, including participants from Struer. Through recorded voices and narration, it highlights dyslexia’s strengths and creative strategies. Julie Nymann uses green to symbolize dyslexia-positive awareness, reinforcing the message of ingenuity and inclusion. The work is in Danish.
Julie Nymann (b. 1987) graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the International Center of Photography in N.Y. Nymann works across disciplines with photography, installation, and participatory practices. Her art explores identity, written language, community, and resilience through photography, sound, and video. She has exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthal Charlottenborg and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Nymann is active in public debate, has published educational material with Alinea, and is part of the Ordvrider Advisory Board, advocating for better conditions for people with dyslexia.
Photo : Julie Nymann
Julie østengaard
FORMAT : Performance
TITLE : TBA
TIME : TBA
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PLACE : TBA
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Laura Papke
FORMAT : Participatory sessions
TITLE : Sonic Driving
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
PLACE : TBA
Sonic Driving is a participatory performance inviting a group of people to experience and practise connectedness through sound. The participants' heartbeats are captured and translated into low-frequency sound, allowing each person to feel their own and other people's heart rhythms through individually assigned speakers. Reminiscent of ancient drumming, the unique beats merge into a collective symphony, fostering synchronisation and co-regulation, and evoking a sense of connection and belonging.
Laura Papke is an interdisciplinary designer and artistic researcher based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Through her practice, she explores the intersections of art, science, and technology with a particular interest in mental and physical well-being. She crafts contemporary rituals using performance, biofeedback, a range of technologies, and sound. It is her intention to reimagine the purpose of technology, shifting our focus toward nurturing our personal and collective spiritual well-being.
Photo : Femke Reijerman
Line Sandvad Mengers
FORMAT : Random Choreography (Application)
TITLE : You’re Not Alone, 2025
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
PLACE : TBA
You're not Alone is a dynamic piece of work that is activated as participants approach and pass each other during Struer Tracks. A sung version of the verse You're not alone from the 90s hit of the same name is played from mobile phones. The work illustrates the connections that arise and exist between people and the technologies we live with. It is a work that unfolds indoors and outdoors, in private and public spaces, and opens up for reflections on community, loneliness and human relationships.
With culture as a changing political and social concept, Line Sandvad Mengers works to create space for dialogue and reflection on complex issues such as value and belonging. She graduated from the Funen Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 and holds a Master in Curating, AU, 2020. Line Sandvad Mengers has worked in public spaces and international venues such as Manifesta 11, ACVic Centre d'Arts Contemporànies, Kurgan Art Museum and her work is part of the collection of the Danish Arts Foundation.
Photo : Mikkel Kaldal
Maryia Kamarova & Kunrad
FORMAT : Installation
TITLE : Hulko
TITLE : Hulko
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
PLACE : TBA
A serpent's egg, a dog's god, a hollow cow. A stone with a naturally formed hole, hulko is a relic of wind and water, carrying myths of protection and play. It wards off misfortune, shields hens, and, when strung on a rope, becomes a creature.
By combining hulko with a modular loop system driven by one slow motor, kunrad and Maryia Kamarova create a delicate sonic sculpture. Emerging from the interplay of movement and materiality, sound evolves like shifting tides, layering rhythmic pulses and textures into an ever-changing acoustic terrain. The project was developed during the residency at Sound Art Lab.
Maryia Kamarova is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is situated on the borders of performing arts, scenography, sound and installation art. She is interested in creating spatial settings that foster a sense of curiosity and attention toward everydayness. By assembling found materials with analogue electronics she continuously develops autonomous sound objects and lets them temporarily inhabit sites of performances and installations.
Sound is the most important element in Kunrad's work, which consists of installations, compositions and performances. His aim is to increase the value of the everyday by illuminating the small sounds and phenomena that surrounds us in our daily life. A person that whispers is better to understand than someone that screams. By letting the work whisper. He tries to engage the visitor through curiosity; they must actively participate in order to experience the work.
Noise Research Union
FORMAT : Workshop + performance
TITLE : Diagrammatic scores + NRU performance
TITLE : Diagrammatic scores + NRU performance
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
PLACE : TBA
NRU will introduce participants to diagrams they have developed through previous workshops. These diagrams explore theoretical and experimental approaches to noise from a multiplicity of perspectives. During the workshop, we will collaboratively re-interpret these diagrams to generate performance scores. This way, participants engage with the material in a dynamic way. The aim is to dive into complexities of the noise themes at hand. Besides this, the NRU will also present a 6-piece performance.
The Noise Research Union (NRU) has been active since 2019, comprising of six members (Cécile Malaspina;, Inigo Wilkins;, Martina Raponi;. Mattin;, Miguel Prado;, Sonia de Jager), and possibly expanding in the future. All members are engaged in different aspects of research on noise: from music and sound, to metaphysics and cosmology, to deafhood and cognitive science. They organize workshops, produce publications and explore aspects of noise through new media and performance.
OPERAEN I MIDTEN
FORMAT : TBA
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Rhea Dally
FORMAT : Performance
TITLE : TBA
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
SWANA x Struer residency
Rhea Dally has been selected to come in residence at Sound Art Lab for three months, and she will perform at this year’s Struer Tracks. Furthermore, Rhea Dally will perform at KLANG Festival 2026.
Rhea Dally has been selected to come in residence at Sound Art Lab for three months, and she will perform at this year’s Struer Tracks. Furthermore, Rhea Dally will perform at KLANG Festival 2026.
Rhea Dally (based in Beirut, Lebanon) functions as a noisemaker. With "a low effort quality brand" ethos, Dally combines her instrument building and programming to shape her ad-lib compositions, characterized by a sensitive interplay between the sonic violence of distortion and the sensitivity of recorded materiality. The result sounds like a computer game run amok, and sometimes like drum n' bass repeatedly kicked over its digital knee. Dally offers a sound that is simultaneously familiar, repulsive, and fiercely provocative.
Thanks to Another Sky Festival and Art Music Denmark for co-curating the open call and the selection, and thanks to Statens Kunstfond for financing the residency.
Photo : Chloe Khoury
Ross Alexander Payne
FORMAT : Performance
TITLE : Modified Import_3x9
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
Modified Import_ is a situational, choreographed performance for three cars with drivers and boot based soundsystems.
The piece takes place to a planned schedule over three, pre-specified locations:
location 1) a field.
location 2) a (series of) tunnel, or bridge/underpass type space(s).
location 3) an open, paved, tarmaced or concreted area, such as a town square, plaza, mall or supermarket car park or similar.
Ross Alexander Payne, born in Rotherham, UK is an artist based and working in Berlin, Germany since 2006.
Ross' broad trans-disciplinary approach deals with themes of labour, industry, class-divide, historical materialism, post-industrial society and the hauntological framework of cyclical use and re-use in the societal and cultural process.
Within this framework his work regularly engages with re-purposed industrial materials and objects, often in the context of sound and sonic materiality to create abstracted and oblique views on the role of expansionism and the growth imperative in shaping our lives.
His broad ranging body of work has encompassed sound art, music, visual arts, performance, radio art, installation, digital media, intervention, social practice and education.
Ross has presented work and performed at such institutions as ICA London, Transmediale Festival, Atonal, Documenta Kassel and Martin-Gropius Bau Berlin.
As a curator and organiser his experimental and diverse practice has seen him work with Transmediale festival, Maerzmusik Berlin, Glastonbury Festival, Cashmere Radio, Nyege Nyege Festival Uganda and through his own Salon Oblique production collective.
Samvær Under Tilsün
FORMAT : Installation with activities
TITLE : Samvær Under Tilsün KANONSLAG
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
Samvær Under Tilsün KANONSLAG is a day center turned inside out. Here, you can take part in various activities such as FRITIDSKLUP, a form of augmented table tennis, VRIONPEIS2DX, a hand-drawn card game with emotionally charged characters, or sit down with a cup of tea and enjoy a deep red swiss roll shaped like a firecracker, complete with a fuse made of pitch-black licorice, satisfying the users' cravings for something sweet. The day center has a kiosk with archetypical items, as well as more esoteric offerings. From time to time, three-star table tennis balls fall out from a hole in the ceiling and down into the room.
Samvær Under Tilsün is a conglomerate of improvised, freeform hardware techno, augmented table tennis with your Life™ at stake, Det Elektriske Korps, machine embroidery,lefser, tea and rotating sound systems in an undulating combination as well as other low-threshold offerings.Samvær Under Tilsün is Øyvind Mellbye and Einar Goksøyr Åsen.
Photo : Julie Hrnčířová
Selu herraiz
FORMAT : Performance
TITLE: TBA
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
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Shadwa Ali
FORMAT : Performance
TITLE: TBA
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
SWANA x Struer residency
Shadwa Ali has been selected to come in residence at Sound Art Lab for three months, and she will perform at this year’s Struer Tracks. Furthermore, Shadwa Ali will perform at MINU Festival 2025.
Shadwa Ali is an Egyptian Alexandria-based multidisciplinary artist and Fine Arts graduate whose work spans printmaking, installation, video, sound, and music. Shadwa's work explores societal issues, human psychology, and urban chaos, often highlighting overlooked details. Her recent projects examine cultural definitions of "noise" in cities, viewing culture as a sonic tapestry. Shadwa has exhibited in Egypt and internationally, with features in international events and radio programs.
Thanks to Another Sky Festival and Art Music Denmark for co-curating the open call and the selection, and thanks to Statens Kunstfond for financing the residency.
Photo : Julian Salinas
Snöleoparden
FORMAT : Concert
TITLE : TIME-SPACE
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
TIME-SPACE – a musical invention by Snöleoparden, aiming to see into deep future and the possibilities of music in outer space
All physical material has a resonance, an inner root note. This also applies to open space – space without walls. In this concert, three musicians are placed on high rooftops, from where they will be making invisible walls of sound, generating resonance in the sky above. A concept that allows musicians to perform together across vast distances, where Time and Space itself becomes the composer.
Snöleoparden is Danish / Pakistani musician Jonas Stampe. Its debut album came out in 2008. It has performed alongside artists such as Ravi Shankar, Jaki Liebezeit, Michala Petri, Hartmut Geerken, Damo Suzuki, Meher & Sher Ali Qawwal, Gonga Sain, Tarawangsa Sunda Lugina, Seni Reak Juarta Putra, Gamelan Salukat, Per Møller, Olafur Eliasson, Ron Sexsmith, Bette Sanne, Lauge Haugaard. Snöleoparden is also behind the ground breaking project Satellite Synthesizer.
Stefanie Egedy
FORMAT : Installation
TITLE : BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S)
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.) is a series of site-specific installations and performances that explore the sensory, emotional, and spatial effects and interactions between low-frequency sound (LFS), human & architectural bodies, and subwoofers. Through bespoke compositions and subwoofer arrangements, each installation creates tactile sonic environments that engage the body as both a sensory receptor and co-creator of the experience. B.A.S. investigates LFS's influence on physical awareness, its embodiment, potential therapeutic effects, and the transformation of spatial perception.
Low frequency sound artist Stefanie Egedy investigates sound as a composer of conceptual pieces, commissioned works, and electronic music. Her body of work, BODIES AND SUBWOOFERS (B.A.S.), explores the interaction between sub-bass, bass, infrasound, human & architectural bodies, and subwoofers, focusing on their spatial and potential therapeutic effects, such as stress and anxiety reduction. Egedy has presented at Berghain, Centro Pecci, CTM, FIBER, Harvard, KW, Kunstfest, MIT, Sonar Istanbul, The High Line, Una Boccata d'Arte, and WIELS.
Photo : Michela Pedranti / B.A.S. at Fénis Castle 2023
Film screenings
Deep listening, The story of Pauline Oliveros (2022)
By Daniel Weintraub
GENRE : Documentary film
GENRE : Documentary film
TIME : TBA
PLACE : Apollon
Deep Listening explores the life of Pauline Oliveros: composer, electronic music pioneer, accordionist, teacher, and innovator. She is a great figure in post-war American music. Pauline Oliveros opened sound to all with her concept of deep listening, including those with disabilities by creating new ways of playing music and listening.The film blends archival footage, performances, and voices of artists like Terry Riley, Laurie Anderson, and more, highlighting her lasting impact on music, sound philosophy, and listening.
Photo : Daniel Weintraub
El Sonido De Un Valle/The sound from a Valley (2021)
By Selu Herraiz
GENRE : Documentary film
GENRE : Documentary film
TIME : TBA
PLACE : Apollon
El Sonido de Un Valle is a documentary that explores the connection between sound, territory, and ritual. Over three years, an experimental school generates artistic practices to transform how people perceive and relate to their environment. The film captures the valley’s unique landscapes—its dry riverbeds, folklore, and the interplay of silence and electric sounds—blending nature, folklore, and modern technology to create a new sensory experience and a deeper connection with the land.
Selu Herraiz (they/he), trans-disciplinary artist, musician and film-maker. Co-founder of Aldarrax Label and art-director of Rota music festival. Part of the artistic direction team of AADK Spain. Selu studied Electronic Engineering. They practice art as an excuse to inhabit and seeks to integrate the creative act into daily life in order to activate social transformation and stimulate critical thinking. Specially focused in sound, they combine their personal research with the design of educational experiences, approaching creation in close relation with territory and communities.
Photo : Hanna Szabó
Fra Nørre Fjends (1984), Boblerne (1969) and Akvarel (1969)
By Knud Viktor
GENRE : Documentary film + Experimental Film
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
TBA
Photo : Alain Sauvan
Events & knowledge
Festival radio
Produced by The Lake
FORMAT : Radio Broadcast
TIME : TBA
PLACE : TBA
The Lake is a place for experimental music and sound art maintained and curated by a community of mostly Copenhagen-based artists and radio producers.
The Lake Radio Radio is set to follow the Biennale as it unfolds. Interviews, live performances and reports will be broadcast from different places in Struer.
Photo : Mateusz Szota
The Sound of the City
– An Inspirational Workshop on Sonic Placemaking and Sound in Urban Development
Organized by Danish Sound Cluster and Struer Municipality (the City of Sound)
FORMAT : Workshop
TBA
Exploring Sonic Cultural Heritage
Organized by National Knowledge Center for Sonic Cultural Heritage (SOKU)
FORMAT : International conference
PLACE: Folkets Hus, Struer
DATE: August 14.
PLACE: Folkets Hus, Struer
DATE: August 14.
Register for the conference and find further information here: https://www.sonicheritage.dk/aktiviteter/5-exploring-sonic-cultural-heritage/
Sound & Art Annual Meeting
Organized by Sound Art Lab, SPOR Festival, the Danish Composers' Society, and Art Music Denmark.
FORMAT: Network Meeting (registration needed)
DATE: Friday, August 15, 2025
TIME: 10:00 - 15:30
VENUE: Søsportens Hus, Ved Fjorden 14, 7600 Struer
DATE: Friday, August 15, 2025
TIME: 10:00 - 15:30
VENUE: Søsportens Hus, Ved Fjorden 14, 7600 Struer
Join our Sound & Art Annual Meeting on August 15th in Struer, Denmark. The event takes place during this year’s Struer Tracks – Biennial for Sound and Listening, in collaboration with SPOR Festival.
The 2025 edition of Struer Tracks centers on the theme Communal Practice, exploring how communities take shape through sound and listening. Aligned with this theme, the Sound & Art Annual Meeting will delve into sound’s artistic potential to connect people and foster a sense of belonging.
In a world marked by fragmentation, the program highlights the significance of shared experiences and the role of sound in nurturing social cohesion and cultural exchange. The day will feature dialogue, knowledge sharing, and artistic exploration. Participants – including artists, curators, and other professionals from the sound art scene – are invited to engage in discussions, experience the communal listening and lecture-performance Jendela Sonorama, and join a guided walk to explore three art projects at this year’s Struer Tracks.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
This year, the annual meeting features a curated check-in, where three voices from the sound art scene will give a five-minute presentation, posing a question related to the meeting’s theme, followed by a ten-minute discussion with the audience.The aim is to spark dialogue, not just individual presentations.
If you’d like to contribute, please send a brief proposal to stine@soundartlab.org no later than June 15th.
PROGRAM
10:00 – 10:15 | Welcome Location: Søsportens Hus
10:15 – 11:15 | Curated Check-in: The Sound Art Scene in Conversation
Three representatives from the sound art scene will each give a five-minute presentation, posing a question related to the meeting’s theme, followed by a ten-minute discussion with the audience.
11:15 – 11:30 | Short Break
11:30 – 12:15 | Lecture by Pedro Oliveira & Ariel Orah: Jendela Sonorama
Pedro Oliveira and Ariel Orah will share their experiences of creating Jendela Sonorama, a communal listening session and spontaneous composition lecture-performance they developed in 2020. Drawing from their diverse backgrounds in São Paulo, Singapore, and Berlin, they will explore themes of diaspora, identity, and community across continents. The lecture will delve into how sound and music intersect with cultural heritage, migration, and the complexities of the Global South, offering reflections that will inspire further conversations during lunchtime.
12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch
13:15 – 14:00 | Performance: Jendela Sonorama by Pedro Oliveira & Ariel Orah
Jendela Sonorama blends live electronics and sampling in a communal listening session, unpacking affective sonic histories of colonialism and exploring ideas of “national identity” through South-South dialogues – not only between Indonesia and Brazil, but also extending the conversation to Europe, its diaspora, and its limits.
14:00 – 15:20 | Group Walk: Exploring 3 installations from Struer Tracks
Together, we’ll explore three curated installations from the Struer Tracks Biennial, with some of the featured artists joining us to share their insights and perspectives. This walk is meant to spark dialogue and interaction, making it a shared and collaborative experience for everyone involved
15:20- 15:30 | At the end of the walk we will have a brief recap before finishing the day
Sound & Art Annual Meeting is a joint initiative by SPOR Festival, Struer Tracks, and Sound Art Lab supported by the Cultural Pool for Regional Development, Art Music Denmark, and the Danish Composers' Society.
The aim of the annual meeting is to strengthen networking and knowledge sharing for everyone working artistically with sound, with a focus on a highly relevant topic.
REGISTRATION:
Participation in the Sound & Art Annual Meeting is free (lunch and coffee included), and everyone is welcome.
Registration is done by email to stine@soundartlab.org before August 7. There will be a no-show fee of 300 DKK in case of cancellation later than August 11th.
COMMUNAL DINNER + STRUER TRACKS PERFORMANCES
Join us for the evening program of the annual meeting, starting with a communal dinner at 18:00 at Søsportens Hus. Participation in the communal dinner is at your own expense, but we will provide drinks and delicious vegan food at affordable prices. To help us plan the catering, please RSVP to stine@soundartlab.org
The evening continues at 20:00 with Struer Tracks performances in The Cube, Bang & Olufsen’s electroacoustic measurement facility.
Photo credit: Hani Hamza
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
ALMANAC release
FORMAT : Book release
As part of Struer Tracks 2025, we are launching the Almanac — a hybrid print and digital publication responding to the biennial’s theme, Kommunal Praksis. Bringing together contributions from artists, curators, and researchers across the globe, the Almanac explores how sound can shape communal life, care, and co-existence. Working across mixed formats — such as essays, interviews, listening exercises, and sound pieces — it offers a space for shared reflection, listening, and experimental publishing.
Student exhibition
Exhibition by students from the Sounding City Summer School (Aarhus University)
FORMAT : Exhibition
TBA
Opening event (braget)
FORMAT : Event
TBA
Guided Tours
FORMAT : Guided tour
TBA
for kids
School program and family activities
FORMAT : Workshops & guided tours
FORMAT : Workshops & guided tours
TBA
Community Kitchen
FORMAT : Food
TBA
Food trucks
FORMAT : Food
TBA
COMMUNAL PRACTICE
communal | commune | community | care | co-creation | citizen service | connection | cohesion | connected | exchange | reciprocity | love | bureaucracy | meetings
With the title ‘Communal Practice’, the fifth edition of Struer Tracks aims to explore how communities are established in various forms and shapes through sound and listening. The biennial will concentrate on new and unexpected connections, as well as on highlighting already existing intersections and encounters.
By presenting a diverse array of sound installations, performances, workshops, lectures, and other events throughout the city, we aim to closely examine how we can foster common ground today: communicating and building connections with radical care for each other and the environment.
From August 14 to 16, Struer transforms into a living laboratory where artists and performers will experiment with sonic potentials to reflect, cooperate and unite. Struer Tracks wants to address the potential of sound to bridge gaps between individuals and groups, thereby nurturing a sense of belonging and mutual support. This year's theme underscores the importance of communal experiences in a world that is increasingly fragmented, emphasizing how sound can be a powerful medium for social cohesion and cultural exchange.
PROGRAM
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STRUER TRACKS
Struer Tracks is a biennial for sound and listening, which takes place in the public space in Struer, City of Sound. The first biennale took place in 2017, and now the fifth edition will take place in 2025.
Struer Tracks has developed from being a small, innovative exhibition to becoming an internationally established event and meeting place for sound art, artists and art professionals as well as one of the highlights for locals in Struer. With the biennial, the interaction between international contemporary art and local culture is developed through collaborations and artistic practice.
Struer Tracks is organized by Sound Art Lab, which is a work environment for artistic exploration, development and production with a focus on sound and listening. The invited artists can live and work at Sound Art Lab in connection to their participation in Struer Tracks.
ORGANIZATION
Struer Tracks 2025 is organized by Sound Art Lab, and curated and directed by Jacob Eriksen. In addition to Jacob the core team behind the biennial is Stine Tholstrup Schmidt, Kristoffer Due Petersen, Isa Paludan Asboe, Léa Laignel, Thomas Frandsen, Zlata Pavlovskaia, Stine Engelbrecht, Mateusz Szota, Per Fogsgaard and Jørgen Lindholm as well as invaluable support from the locals.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Struer Tracks 2025 is financially supported by Art Music Denmark, Augustinus Fonden, Dansk Komponistforening, Det Obelske Familiefond, Færchfonden, Kultursamarbejdet, Ny Carlsbergfondet, Region Midtjyllands Kulturudviklingspulje, Sonning-Fonden, Sound Art Lab, Statens Kunstfond, Struer Kommune, and William Demant Fonden.
COLLABORATIONS
Struer Tracks 2025 collaborates with Another Sky, Apollon, Bang & Olufsen, Danish Sound Cluster, Folkets Hus, Klang Festival, Lydlaboratoriet, MINU, OZ3EDR, SOKU, Sounding City Summer School, SPOR, Struer Handelsstandsforening, Struer Bibliotek, Struer Museum, Søsportens Hus, The Lake, Uddannelsesinitiativet i Struer, and 89.
