Facilitators: Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Eduardo Abrantes

Performers: Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Eduardo Abrantes, Olya Zikrata, Polina Shubina

Changed and Changing: A Participatory Soundtracking of the Site is a collaborative workshop that invites participants to collectively compose a soundtrack for a video adaptation of Gardiner’s ecopoem “Changed and Changing,” a text shaped by processes of decay, exposure, and environmental transformation. Developed as part of an ongoing artistic partnership between Gardiner and Abrantes—initiated in Berlin in 2024—the project investigates the performative and ecological potential of sound-poetry.

For this Montréal iteration, the black-box space at Concordia University becomes a temporary sound studio. The video is first screened with only partial audio, leaving room for participants to inhabit and reshape its sonic field. Through multiple takes, the audience records overlapping soundtracks, experimenting with how voice, noise, rhythm, and gesture can “synch” with the visual environment to propose new ways of sensing and weathering the climate crisis.

The session includes an open discussion on collective authorship, the ethics of shared sonic production, and the idea of “being in flow” within the Anthropocene. By foregrounding bodies in shared space and the co-creation of sound and image, the workshop cultivates a form of radical, situated listening—an artistic ecology unfolding in real time, attentive to change, vulnerability, and the possibilities of collective attunement.