ECAL lecture - Parasonic
04.03–09.04.2025
Leenaards Auditorium, ECAL

Marie Thompson, Musicologist, London

Co-founder of the Sonic Cyberfeminisms project and Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at the Open University, Milton Keynes (UK), Marie Thompson's work interrogates the links between gender, race and the culture of listening.Author of Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism (2017), she offers, in this talk, an update of her resounding article: Whiteness and the Ontological turn in Sound Studies (2017). 

Jessie Cox, Musician, Cambridge

Musician, composer and professor at Harvard University, Jessie Cox unveils an extraordinarily provocative and inspiring monograph: Sounds of Black Switzerland (Duke University Press, 2025). In this analysis, supervised by George Lewis, he notes the varieties of Black life in Switzerland, the particularities of anti-blackness, and its effects: erasure, silence and limitation, as well as the creation of specific listening practices. 

Hannah Catherine Jones, Artist, London

Hannah Catherine Jones (aka foxymoron) is a PhD researcher and multi-instrumentalist, conductor and founder of the diasporic queer choir Chiron Choir, broadcaster and DJ for BBC Radio/TV and NTS - The Opera Show. All his work is linked to institutional decolonization and the diasporic uses of vibration-frequency-sound-music, notably in the context of individual and collective healing practices.