Connecting Commutes is an artistic project that regards listening as a sensory practice that promotes reflection and experimentation. It will be part of the Portuguese Capital of Culture Braga 25 programme.
The project is based on the concepts of mobility, territory, heritage, landscape, public space and community, opening up avenues of creation in the field of sound and also in the thinking associated with this theme.
The project’s main partners are the Audire (CECS) research group and TUB – Empresa de Transportes Urbanos de Braga. Between March and September 2025, sound works will be presented on the buses of this network and will also be made available online. Associated with the sound content, there will also be a publication of written essays on the theme of the project and the sound content itself.
In this call, Audire invites researchers and the academic community in general to submit written essays and sound pieces, through a call for papers that will run until January 31, 2025. Sound pieces must be between 3 and 15 minutes long, in any of the following genres: radio art, soundscape, documentary, installation, audio routes and musical composition. Written essays should have a maximum of 5000 characters. Both formats – sound piece and written essay – must be original works, either unpublished or already published. Proposals can be submitted until 31 January 2025.
Learn more here.
For any questions and to send submissions, you can use the e-mail prodtcom25@gmail.com.