Sara Walther, Tanya Gautam and Linus Eusterbrock will be presenting at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2026 at King’s College London.
This year’s conference theme embraces multiple meanings of ‘present’. Firstly, the theme asks us to reflect on temporality. From a critical and philosophical perspective, we no longer view the present as a singular point on a line stretching between past and future, but rather as an entangled ‘in-between’ that is more-or-less constructed, more-or-less collective, more-or-less emancipatory; as multiple overlapping ‘presents’ of varying temporal ranges, which may or may not converge. This is nowhere better demonstrated than the polycrisis we are currently experiencing, in which war, genocide, runaway climate change, environmental breakdown, resource scarcity, and growing political authoritarianism and fascism converge, each crisis marked by temporalities particular to it.
Their talk Interspecies musical encounters: attention, presence and human-plant relationships in biodata sonification practices will take place on Thursday April 9th from 1-3pm.
More information can be found here.
