Time Based: Sonic Interventions —
Talks & Engagement Programme
The festival will incorporate a range of talks and engagement activities that explore the theme of sonic intervention.
Drawing from the air raid alarms that have become a stark reality in Ukraine, artist talks will investigate the dual nature of sonic interventions as both poetic and dangerous. Discussions will engage experimental artists working in sound, and thinkers from other disciplines to explore the political, social, and emotional impacts of sound — its capacity to affect both human and non-human inhabitants of the world.
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Gallery Bagging [synonym] session
To delve deeper into the works featured at David Dale Gallery, on Friday 13 June, A-J Reynolds & Eliza Coulson — the women behind experimental writing platform Gallery Bagging — will host a [synonym] session, a facilitated group writing session that will concentrate on the collaboration between the collective force that is Photinus Studios & Scottish composer and sound artist Zoë Irvine. If you are looking to enhance your experience, to meet some new like-minded people and to improve your writing skills, then this session will be for you!
Friday 13 June 2025, 11.00am – 1.00pm, David Dale Gallery
FREE: booking essential via Eventbrite
Image: courtesy of Gallery Bagging
Symposium
Listening Session: Some Sounds May Be Triggering
One hour essay-like narration, illustrated by examples of sound practices and musical works that have emerged during the full-scale Russian war in Ukraine. Led by Olha Bekenshtein, music curator and founder of Time Based, this listening session uncovers documentary, memorial, resistive and live saving dimensions of listening in wartime and introduces recordings shaped by displacement, loss, urgency, and survival — but also moments of radical care, love, and aesthetic response.
Warning: The event includes audio materials that may be emotionally intense or disturbing.
Friday 13 June, 1.30pm - 2.30pm, David Dale Gallery
Free: Booking here.
Panel Talk: Be All Ears
Speakers: Dmytro Tentiuk (UA), Daria Maiier (UA), Abie Soroño (PH), Raymond MacDonald (UK), moderated by Martel Ollerenshaw (UK)
In a world where focused listening is the biggest luxury, how do we attune to the sounds that escape human control – the murmur of forests, the deep time of landscapes, the thunder of a war? This panel brings together artists, curators, and thinkers working at the intersection of music, ecology and AI to explore sonic environments shaped by forces larger than ourselves. We ask: What does it mean to listen today? What does it mean to trust what we’ve heard? Can artificial intelligence capture that more objectively? And how might environments sound in the future – and who, or what, will be there to listen?
Friday 13 June, 3pm - 4pm, David Dale Gallery
Free: Booking here.
Image: courtesy of Path Mode
Artist Talk: Anna Khvyl in conversation
Join Anna Khvyl as she discusses her creative process and inspiration for the Sound Walk, devised in collaboration with Piotr Armianovski. Emerging curator Stella Rafferty will moderate the session.
Saturday 14 June, 1.15pm - 2pm, Glasgow Women’s Library
Free: Tickets here (walk & talk combined ticket)
Image: courtesy of Path Mode