Livestream for Reveil 10 on Dawn Chorus Day

REVEIL 24+1 HOUR BROADCAST 2023

5AM London time (UTC+1) on Saturday 6 MAY to 6AM on Sunday 7 MAY 2023

soundtent.org/reveil

I’m delighted to be hosting a stream from Seoul, South Korea, for Reveil 2023.

Reveil travels West on live audio feeds from streamers around the world at daybreak, making a loop over one earth day.

Reveil (2014—) is a collective production by streamers at listening points around the earth. Starting on the morning of Saturday 6 May in South London near the Greenwich Meridian, the broadcast will pick up feeds one by one, tracking the sunrise west from microphone to microphone, following the wave of intensified sound that loops the earth every 24 hours at first light.

Streams come from a variety of locations, at a time of day when human sounds are relatively low, even in dense urban areas. This tends to open the sound field to a more diverse ecology than usual. The Reveil broadcast makes room by largely avoiding speech and music, gravitating to places where human and non human communities meet and soundworlds overlap.

Each stream brings something different to the loop.

REVEIL 10 goes back to its starting point, giving attention to live sounds of places as first light reaches them.

Yongsan-gu Crow’s Nest Stream page

Making Kin: Resilience through Multispecies Care and Coexistence at NODE20

Kat was part of the Main Kin panel at NODE20 earlier this month. If you missed it, you can catch up by watching this recording of the session on Youtube: Making Kin: Resilience through Multispecies Care and Coexistence.

Info about Making Kin at NODE20

Both the pandemic and the climate crisis are lessons on human hubris—our failure to recognize planetary interdependencies and that we’re not above but a part of the biosphere. Ecofeminist icon Donna Haraway reminds us that “if we appreciate the foolishness of human exceptionalism then we know that becoming is always becoming with, in a contact zone where the outcome, where who is in the world, is at stake.” Building more resilient futures will require a new multispecies perspective that is grounded in kinship and connection. We need to challenge delusions of separation and open up the frames of what matters to us, in part by recognizing what matters to others. But how do we expand our circle of empathy? How do we develop hybrid, embodied, and multi-sensorial languages to communicate across species boundaries? And how can we engage and mobilize the general public around issues of multispecies care and coexistence?

This panel gathers a diverse group of artists, researchers, and activists – Kat Austen, Andrea Haenggi, Ellie Irons, Christopher Kennedy, Mary Maggic and Sukitoa o Namau. This panel is hosted and moderated by Anna Nowak, a German art historian and curator focused on transculturalism and biodiversity. The session will be streamed publicly for free following this link on the 7th of October from 21:00 until 22:30 (GMT+2).