Audire / Connecting Commutes Open Call

Connecting Commutes is an artistic project that chooses listening as a sensory practice that promotes reflection and experimentation. It will be part of the artistic program of the Portuguese Capital of Culture Braga25.

The constant changes in the territory, imposed by urban growth, force us to look for efficient, ecologically responsible mobility systems that help create alternatives to individual transportation and give us back the “right to the city”. Public transport is a public space with its own characteristics; it is part of the life of cities and their inhabitants and is therefore also a way of participating in collective life. Buses, in particular, are also places to meet “the other”, where we can allow ourselves to be lulled into a space-time interstice conducive to introspection and imagination.

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. We consider sound to be an essential language and a source of information about the world around us, but also a crucial tool for stimulating imagination and artistic expression.

The main partners are the Audire research group (CECS) and TUB – Empresa de Transportes Urbanos de Braga. Between March and September 2025, sound works will be presented inside the network’s buses and will also be made available online. Associated with the sound content, a publication of written essays on the project’s theme and the sound content itself is also planned.

We invite researchers and the academic community in general to submit written essays and sound pieces, through a call for papers that will run until 17 february , 2025. Sound pieces should 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 Both formats – sound piece and written essay – must be original works, either unpublished or already published.

Information on submission guidelines here

For any questions and to send submissions, please use the e-mail prodtcom25@gmail.com

[Posted: 28-10-2024 | Updated: 27-01-2025]