Connecting Commutes: The Matter of Listening | Book presentation

Resume: “Based on the premise that ‘everything floats in the air’, this collection of essays explores listening as an essential practice for understanding and inhabiting the contemporary world, rescuing sound as a sensitive material that shapes public space, memory, and collective life. Integrated into a theoretical framework that articulates mobility, territory and community, the Trajetos Comunicantes project, which was part of the artistic programme of Braga 25 Portuguese Capital of Culture, was developed in 2025 through action research, sound installations, cultural mediation and artistic residencies, transforming Braga buses into devices for attention and experimentation. Bringing together more than 130 sound pieces and written contributions from artists, students and researchers, the initiative called for new ways of perceiving urban and peri-urban environments, stimulating reflections on displacement, coexistence, acoustic heritage and the possibilities — or limits — of common listening. The book The Matter of Listening extends this experience, bringing together seventeen essays that traverse the territories of hearing, sensoriality and creation, reaffirming sound as a physical and symbolic presence that sustains our relationships with places, with others and with what we imagine to be possible.”

On February 21, there will be a presentation of the book as part of the Trajetos Comunicantes artistic project, developed in partnership with Audire and CECS. The presentation will be given by Luís Pinto, project coordinator and editor of the book, and Madalena Oliveira, director of CECS and head of Audire. The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. at PISO, located at Rua do Cabido, no. 7 (Sé), in Braga.

The book is available here.

ANO

2025

AUTORES

André Perim, Angelos Kottas, Arjan Onderdendwijngaard, Cláudio Bezz , Frederico Pessoa, Karina Sletten, Khristina Otts, Laetitia Kozlova, Marcelino Ferreira, Nigel Bristow, Paul Devens, Ralph Hoyte, Ricardo Silvestre, Susana Vieira, Teresa Lima e Vanya Nesterets

EDITORES

Luís Pinto