Workshop Listening Session

When:  Wednesday September 3, kl. 18.00-20.00, 2025
Where: Elektronmusikstudion, Söder Mälarstrand 61, Stockholm
Teacher: Laura Naukkarinen/ Lau Nau
Fee: Participation is free of charge.
Prerequisities: Language is English. No level requirements: singers, instrumentalists and sound makers of all levels can join, no musical knowledge is required. You should be at least 18 years old.

Welcome to a workshop where we practice sensitivity for listening by doing listening exercises and making small sounds. We explore collective and active listening: how do we give space to the sound, how do sounds affect each other? The emphasis is on making and listening to sound in a minimalist and focused way.

The listening session is a counterbalance to solitary work, aiming for a more collective experience.

You can bring with you a small instrument or object that makes a sound (bell, bowl, glass, wooden sticks, rocks, etc.) or your own voice.

About the teacher

Lau Nau, aka Laura Naukkarinen, is a Finnish composer and sound artist whose music is imbued with an idiosyncratic, finely honed sound world. Her palette often consists of traditional instruments, singing voice, modular synthesisers and field recordings. She works with listening practices and makes collective listening workshops.

To date Lau Nau has released 11 albums on record labels in Europe, USA and Japan and a large number of collaborative releases. Lau Nau is also known for her music to films and multi channel sound installations. In her role as a sound designer she won the Finnish State Prize for the Performing Arts 2021 with the working group of Huoneiden kirja and her original score for Katja Gauriloff’s film Je’vida earned her the Jussi Prize 2024. She has toured abroad for 25 years, playing in venues such as Super Deluxe in Tokyo, the Lab & Castro Theatre in San Francisco and Knitting Factory, Blank Forms, Pioneer Works & Issue Project Room in New York.

Sign up here

The workshop has a limited number of seats. Register here.

For inquaries about the workshop, please contact Education Coordinator at Elektronmusikstudion: lisa.stenberg@elektronmusikstudion.se