"Symbiotic relationships" is a workshop series hosted by Dimitra kousteridou in the Netherlands and Portugal.

It is focusing on Active listening and consciousness through developing awareness of sound. The intention is to combine listening and sound-making that does not represent independent processes; With the participants, we are zooming in the processes of listening, documenting, and describing the acoustic conditions or the sonic events through active sound walks and recording. Participants are getting in contact with active listening by concentrating on walking, movement, and the relationship between the hearing bodies and moving bodies through time, space, and place.

Together, we create an approach that will connect the self with the lived environment through radical listening and sound recording. We amplify, listen, and understand our own body basic sounds, discuss notions of space and environment, engage with the act of recording sounds. In the end, we are making a collective composition of sound recordings, creating a new sonic landscape.
Concluding in guiding auditory attention away from immediate sensation and towards more lasting effects on perception.

When the making of sound is a natural part of our everyday activities and also essential to our experience of space, a sound-in-the-making act with participants, audience, and makers creating it all together, simultaneously creates a meaningful shared and creative social practice.

Length: Two to three hours depending on the number of participants.