Listening together at a concert can be seen as an intentional pro-social act – a dynamic alignment of mind and body over time. In doing so, we also share our relationship to ourselves and the world around us. Somatocene: Telluric Flesh is a research-based sound performance that emerges from somatic movement and listening practices and understands the body as the primary site of perception, rhythm and negotiation. In a quiet, concentrated form, SunJeong Hwang unfolds a field of tension between analogue, electrical and digital sound. She feeds this with field recordings, analogue sound sources and responsive signal processing. This particular performance has been developed with the BLAUES RAUSCHEN Festival as its intended venue. The audience and artist will have an opportunity to listen in an attentive, tentative, present way as movement, material and environment enter into a continuous dialogue in which an intimate sonority develops.

SunJeong Hwang is a sound artist and researcher with a focus on body perception, ecological rhythms and hybrid human-technology structures. Her work moves between sound performance, research and embodied practices, exploring how hearing, movement and technology intertwine. Building on projects such as ‘We Are Polyphonic Bodies’ (2023) and ‘Telluric Memory,’ she has increasingly shifted her focus to the body as a sensory and cognitive field. Among other things, she is currently developing a Korean bow as a performative interface that translates movement directly into sound.