Compose, Listen, Sustain!

Three Days of Inspiration, Lectures & Workshop

22–24 April 2025
Free

How can environmental awareness and sustainable perspectives open new pathways in creative practice?

Ultima invites composers and sound artists to a three-day digital meetup featuring lectures and a workshop* by esteemed facilitators—performer and composer Joana Sá, scenographer Silje Sandodden Kise and sound artist Kathy Hinde—focusing on ecological consciousness, sustainable material choices, flexible formats, and digital collaboration methods within music and sound art. The digital forum organised by ULYSSES Platform will feature presentations by music and technology researcher Bilge Serdar, senior engineer Aleksander Tidemann at the Department of Musicology, and curator and flautist Bjørnar Habbestad. The forum is moderated by Ultima's Director Heloisa Amaral.

Everything on the program will be conducted in English.

Programme Overview

Compose, Listen, Sustain! is part of Sustainable Composing & Creative Sound Practices, a one-year programme developed in collaboration with Nordic Music Days and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Joana Sá. Photo Credit: Vera Marmelo

Bjørnar Habbestad/Lemur. Photo Credit: Anna-Julia Granberg

Bilge Serdar. Photo Credit: University of Oslo

Aleksander Tidemann. Photo Credit: Private

Kathy Hinde. Photo Credit: James Cook/BBC News

Garbage bag dress for "Sustain" (Rørtveit/Lavoll/Havre/Kise 2017) by Silje Kise. Photo Credit: Jørn Lavoll

In collaboration with

  • Nordic Music Days
  • Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Co-funded by

  • Arts Council Norway
  • Sparebankstiftelsen DNB
  • Arts Council England
  • Danish Arts Foundation
  • The European Union as part of the ULYSSES Platform