tekhnē

Workshops with: Alan Courtis & Mattin, Khrystyna Kirik, Mark Bain, Svitlana Matviyenko

A2A Transmission is a series of workshops for artists by artists, aiming to expand sound practitioners' skill sets and practices through direct exchange with seasoned artists. Part of CTM 2026 festival, the programme takes place at Morphine Raum.

Four tekhnē-supported workshops will take place under the A2A Transmission umbrella:

Expanded & Quantum Listening vs Deep Shit Listening
Alan Courtis & Mattin investigate the tensions between deep listening and deliberate mis-listening, challenging assumptions embedded in everyday listening perceptions. This workshop will introduce exercises inspired by the work of composer Pauline Oliveros, developed in two distinct yet complementary directions.

Electro-Acoustic Improvisation
Improvisation and live processing take center stage with Khrystyna Kirik, whose workshop attunes participants to the attention, sensory awareness, and responsiveness that shape how bodies listen and interact with sound.

Site in Sound
Turning toward the built environment, Mark Bain guides participants into the vibrational life of infrastructures, introducing ways of sensing and composing with architecture through its acoustic and energetic resonances.

Environing Technologies and Elemental Necropolitics of War
Dr. Svitlana Matviyenko leads a seminar on elemental warfare and entangled ecologies, establishing a common language and several key concepts – environing media and technologies, elemental warfare, and the transition from battlefield to battlespace. Through text analysis the group will clarify how these concepts operate and what kinds of environments they describe and produce. The workshop will also offer critical tools to engage with CTM 2026’s exhibition works and to consider how environments turned hostile might still hold space for new forms of solidarity and resistance.