RAFLOST - Soundwave Workshop

What if we could hear the hidden electromagnetic landscapes that surround us? This hands-on workshop explores sound-making with invisible forces – using electromagnetic field inductors and coils to capture and transform the electromagnetic activity of obsolete circuit boards and the telecommunication systems around us into audible material.

We’ll use this method as a way to perceptualize the dense complexity of digital devices in our everyday life – making the invisible tangible through sound. Working with coils, antennas, radios, and light-sensitive circuits, participants will discover how discarded electronics and ambient electromagnetic fields become sonic instruments.

No prior electronics experience needed – the focus is on exploration, listening, and collective improvisation rather than circuit-building. Working in small groups at different instrument stations, we’ll experiment with these invisible phenomena, then bring everything together through a common mixer to create a collaborative piece. We may develop simple graphic scores to guide our improvisation.

This is about discovering sound in unexpected places, making music with electronic waste and forces we can’t see but can definitely hear.