Program

1st International Festival LEAM

“Imagining Common Futures” Art, Sustainability and Climate Change

DAY 1
27 November 2025

Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo, Juan Soriano MMAC

Opening Day

9:00
Registration

09:30 – 10:00
Welcome LEAM/MMAC

10:00-10:30
Welcoming: Tuning In
By Sabine Vogel

10:30 – 10:50
Opening for the Listening Room and Sound Installation

10:50 – 11:00
Coffee break

DAY 1 TALKS: Sound, Art, Sustainability, and Climate Crisis through the lens of Biomusicology, Ecomusicology, and Environmental artivism

11:00-11:20
Dr. Sabine Feisst (p)
Listening Beyond Human Perception with Jez riley French and Pheobe riley Law

11:20 – 11:40
Ana Maria Romano, Vanessa Valencia Ramos
Paisajistas Sonoras en América Latina (v)

11:40 – 12:00
Ali Balighi PhD student (v)
Resonant Ecologies: Reviewing the Role of Spatialization and Site-Specificity in Electroacoustic Environmental Art

12:00 – 12:20
Dr. Akiva Zamcheck (p)
Smash the Social Contract: Revisiting People’s Liberation Music in 2025

12:20 – 12:40
LEAM Collective

12:40 – 13:00
Coffee break

13:00 – 14:00
Dr. Gisela Nauck (v) Key Speaker
Musical Ecology: A plea for a 21st-century avant-garde

14:00 – 16:00
Meals

Parallel Sessions: Workshops
16:00 – 18:00

Workshop: (Piso 6)
Composition for small ensembles
By Duplum – (Ivan Manzanilla, Fernando Dominguez)
For composers

Workshop: (Gardens)
Tuning In
By Sabine Vogel
For musicians, dancers, performers, visual artist, interested people

Workshop: (T2)
By We Spoke
For Percussion players and musicians

Concerts DAY 1
18:00 – 19:00
Duplum

19:00 – 20:00
LEAM Collective

20:00 – 21:00
We Spoke

21:30
Dinner

DAY 2
28 November 2025

Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo, Juan Soriano MMAC

8:00 – 9:40
Workshop: Field Recording
Introduction to bioacoustics and bird identification
Dr. Fernando González, Dr. Fernando Urbina

09:40 – 10:00
Coffee Break

TALKS DAY 2: ART & SCIENCE, bioacoustics, and soundscape studies

10:00 – 10:20
Dr. Fernando Gonzalez (p)
Bioacustics and Ecoacustics for biodiversity

10:20 – 10:40
Dr. Roberto Sosa (v)
Bioacoustics as a tool for measuring the impact of climate change on bird behavior

10:40 – 11:00
Dr. Fernando Urbina (p)
Experiences in recording bird sounds

11:00 – 11:20
Dr. Anastasia Georgaki y Nikolaos Ph.D. student (v)
Dawn Chorus: Studying the Athenian dawn soundscape using soundscape analysis techniques

11:20 – 11:40
Dra. Gisela Giardino (v)
The sound ocean: how marine mammals listen, communicate, and resist in a changing sea

11:40 – 12:00
Dra. Paola Moscoso (v)
Voces del Bosque

12:00 – 12:20
Dr. Joseph Chavez (p)
Pulse Synchronization and the Dynamics of Attention

12:20 – 12:40
Gaby deisolbi Ph.D. student (p)
The song of the queen bee: sound art in biocommunication

12:40 – 13:00
Dra. Berenice Arnold (p)
The Sea of Siringe

13:00 – 14:00
Bernie Bastien – Key Speaker

14:00 – 16:00
Meals

Parallel Sessions: Workshops

16:00 – 18:00
Workshop: (Piso 6)
Composition for small ensembles
By Duplum – Ivan Manzanilla, Fernando Dominguez)
For composers

Workshop: (Gardens)
Tuning In
By Sabine Vogel
For musicians, dancers, performers, visual artist, interested people

Workshop: (T2)
By We Spoke
For Percussion players and musicians

Concerts DAY 2

18:00 – 19:00 
Ensemble Liminar

19:00 – 20:00
Human-non-human

Sabine Vogel (20’00)
CH’ÍICH

Tania Rubio
The Guardinas (10’00)
Insect City (10’00)

20:00 – 21:00
Electroacoustic Concert
Imagining Common Futures “Call For” Selection

21:30
Dinner

DAY 3
29 November 2025

Museo Morelense de arte contemporáneo, Juan Soriano MMAC

8:00 – 9:40
Workshop Field Recording
Introduction to bioacoustics and bird identification
Dr. Fernando González, Dr. Roberto Sosa, Dr. Fernando Urbina

09:40 – 10:00
Coffee Break

TALKS DAY 3: Ecologies of listening, field Recording, phonography, ecoacoustics

10:00 – 10:20
Dr. Francisco Rivas (p)
Critical phonography: contemplation and modes of agency

10:20 – 10:40
Dra. Luz María (v)
Feral Auralities: Critical Grammars to Inhabit the Crisis

10:40 – 11:00
Dra. Elisa Corona (p)
The fields are dressed in color: romantic nature, union struggles, and environmental art (or how I learned to distrust scholars of the Anthropocene)

11:00 – 11:20
Ma. Jessica Romero (v)
Aesthetics of living: sensitivity, ethics, and sonic affectivity

11:20 – 11:40
Akire Erika Karina Jimenez (p)
Ma tikkakikan in tetsawitl “Augurios Aurales”

11:40 – 12:00
Dra. Cielo Vargas Gómez (v)
Digging up potatoes. Listening as a medium between invocation and evocation of the territory

12:00 – 12:20
Dra. Iracema de Andrade (p)
Ecologies of the urban soundscape: critical listening from Mexico City

12:20 – 12:40
Dr. Roberto Morales (p)
Reviews and new creative mysteries

12:40 – 13:00
Dr. Anastasia Georgaki (v)
The science of cicada song: the case of creek cicadas

13:00 – 14:00
Dr. David Monacchi (v) Key Speaker

14:00 – 16:00
Meals

Workshop
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop for Children (T2)
By Gilberto Ramírez

17:30 – 18:00
Sound and Environment
Children’s Concert (Cube)
By Entre Cuerdas y Trinos Ensemble

18:00 – 19:30
Concerts DAY 3
Soundscape Composition

Antonio Russek
Recordando Octubre

Manuel Rocha
Casi Nada

Rodrigo Sigal
Sueño para armar

Roberto Morales
Resonancias Sistémicas

19:30 – 20:00
Hifa
Lol-Ha Biomúsica Audiovisual

20:00 – 21:00
We Spoke

21:30
Dinner

DAY 4
30 November 2025

Closing Day in Morelos
8:00 – 9:00

Travel to ancient ruins Xochicalco
*Limited to 30 people (Registration required during the conference) (paid activity)

9:00 -10:00
Tuning In
Sabine Vogel

10:00 – 11:00
Sound Walks
LEAM COLLECTIVE

11:00 – 12:00
Archeoacoustics* To be confirmed

12:00 – 13:30
Guided Tour Ancient Civilizations

13:30 – 14:00
Travel to Coatetelco Lake
*Limited to 30 people

14:00 – 16:00
Meals at Coatetelco Lake

16:00 – 17: 00
Talk by Coatetelco Community
Lake Coatetelco as biocultural heritage

17:00 – 18:00
Back to Cuernavaca

DAY 5
01 December 2025

Travel to Mexico City

Free DAY

DAY 6
02 December 2025

GOETHE-INSTITUT

11:00 – 12:30
Workshop
We Spoke

12:30 -13:30
Listening Room
Call For

14:00 – 16:00
Meals

16:00 – 17:00
Lecture – Performance
Duplum

17:00 – 18:00
Lecture – Performance
Sabine Vogel

18:00 – 19:00
Lecture – Performance
Tania Rubio

19:00 – 20:00
Lecture – Performance
We Spoke

20:30 
Dinner

DAY 7
03 December 2025

Sonidario, Sala de Escucha Inmersiva de la Fonoteca Nacional en los Pinos

Event organized in collaboration with the Fonoteca Nacional

10:00 – 13:00
Workshop
3D Audio Introduction
Dr. Garth Paine
*Limited to 20 people (prior registration required)

13:00
Coffee Break

13:30 – 14:30
Book Presentation
Environmental Listening Field Guide

14:30 – 16:00
Meals

16:00 – 17:00
Listening Session
Dr. Garth Paine

17:00 – 18:00
Guests Final Concert
LEAM Collective
We Spoke
Garth Paine