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The Sonic Beings Laboratory: children as artistic researchers weaving meanings of sound (last edited: 2025)

Jelizaveta Vovka, Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir, Wei-Ya Lin

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What questions emerge when children and adults engage in artistic research together, exploring sound, identity, and creativity as co-researchers? In this AR pilot project, a fourth-grade class at a Viennese elementary school, Campus Landstraße, together with three adult researchers, collaboratively shape an open-ended inquiry into the sonic. This exploratory phase should lay the groundwork for a larger artistic research project. It focuses on how children and adults collaboratively shape the direction of inquiry: What questions related to sound matter to us? How do we, together, engage with sound as material, metaphor, and method? And how do the modes of questioning transform our understanding of what artistic research can become? Guided by principles of Participatory Action Research and entangled sound-making, this pilot creates an open, flexible space, the Sonic Beings Laboratory, where research practices are not delivered or taught, but discovered in collaboration. It is a space where children and adults co-develop questions, sub-projects, and methods through relational and creative engagement. As adult researchers and artists, we were not external observers but co-learners—creating alongside the children, responding to their sonic ideas, and reflecting on our own evolving practices. Our field notes, sketches, and interventions were not supplementary; they were integral to the research process, allowing us to trace how the project challenged our assumptions and shifted our ways of listening and making. This pilot is not about finding answers. It is about staying with the questions that emerge through our shared inquiry, attending to how our research practice unfolds, and how all participants are changed through the process.

type	research exposition
keywords	embodiment of knowledge, WEIRD, intercultural education, sonic being, ontology, k-pop, movement, video games
date	13/12/2024
last modified	28/11/2025
status	in progress
share status	public
affiliation	University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
copyright	Wei-Ya Lin, Jelizaveta Vovka, Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3289308/3289309

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