By Alessandra Pomarico (firefly frequencies, Free Home University, Ecoversities), Nikolay Oleynikov (firefly frequencies, Chto Delat), Elliot Perkins (Ultra-red)

“What does it mean to listen? After almost ten years as part of the collective experiment of Free Home University and other learning communities, my answer today would be: to suspend the impulse to find an immediate response, to react or to look for (re)solutions, and stay in the not-knowing, bearing the discomfort we are left in when something or someone asks us to really listen. To welcome a pause, to give space for silence, to listen deeper and wider.“

View or download the pdf of the full article below, extracted from Waves: Radio as Collective Imagination. This publication reflects on radio and audio practices – their infrastructures, modes of collaboration and situated knowledges – in written, visual and sonic form. The first volume of Journal of Contemporary Audio Practices aims to look at radio and the sonic as political forms of collective organisation, focusing on the different practices of international artists and groups, many of them members of lumbung radio.