Listening as porosity 

“Listening as porosity” is a three-day public programme between 4th to 6th December 2025, imagined by Mathias Arrignon, Action Pyramid and Mélia Roger, focused on relational field recording practices, and hosted at Listen Gallery, Glasgow,

Holding an immersive listening session, a technical workshop, and a concluding public symposium, the event will create an engaging and participatory environment where audiences can experience and reflect on sound in its ecological, cultural, and emotional dimensions. At the heart of “Listening as porosity” lies the idea of field recording beyond mere documentation, approaching it instead as a porous practice where sound, memory, and imagination interweave.

What lies behind the act of playing a recording of a lively forest to a deforested area? Can we scale down our listening to hear the murmur of the soil or the quiet breath of an aquatic plant? Why does the sound of a glacier collapsing create such an emotional resonance in us? How does it feel to use a microphone that you have assembled with your own hands? Why do we record and why doest it matter?

“Listening as porosity” opens up a carefully crafted space for collective listening, reflection, skill-sharing and encourages the possibility of learning, and mostly unlearning.

LIST OF EVENTS AND BOOKING LINKS:

DIY MICROPHONE & HYDROPHONE WORKSHOP, with Mathias Arrignon & Action Pyramid
THURSDAY 4th DECEMBER 2025, 6-9PM
a free workshop dedicated to the fabrication of affordable devices for field recording
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IMMERSIVE LISTENING SESSION, with Mathias Arrignon, Action Pyramid & Mélia Roger
FRIDAY 5th DECEMBER 2025, 6:30-9:30PM
a listening session showcasing a selection of works by the artists on a quadraphonic sound system
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PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM, with Mathias Arrignon, Action Pyramid & Mélia Roger
SATURDAY 6th DECEMBER 2025, 2-5:30PM
convivial and accessible space for public reflection on the practice of field recording
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ARTISTS

Mathias Arrignon is an artist from Val-de-Marne (France), based in Glasgow and working internationally. Driven by listening, he is using this sensitive language to foster environmental care and to narrate realities which suffer from invisibilation. His works merge field recording practices, audio technology, interactive installations and participatory performances to instil forms of interconnectedness with worlds that are often more-than-human. He is also working for audio-visual productions to facilitate the development of narratives whether on radiophonic waves, or through the audible strata of films and documentaries. On a more transdisciplinary level, his expertise in contemporary audio technology is also at the intersection of several fields by collaborating with other artists and design studios.

Tom Fisher is a sound artist and musician working primarily under the name Action Pyramid. His projects vary from site-specific sound installations for galleries and museums, to experimental radio works, documentary film and music. With a multitude of recording techniques, often aimed at exploring and re-interpreting the seemingly unnoticed and unheard elements of our surroundings, he looks to present compositional and spatial expressions of these acoustic phenomena in a way that attempts to offer up alternative perspectives regarding perceptions of scale, hierarchical bias and the interconnectedness of living things.

Mélia Roger (*1996, she/her) is a field recordist and artist engaged to inspire ecological change with environmental and empathic listening. Her work explores the sonic poetics of the landscape, searching for the invisible layers between human and non-humans. Coming from a sound engineering background (ENS Louis-Lumière in Paris, ZHdK in Zurich), Mélia is developing a twofold activity between immersive 7.0.2 sound recordings within HAL, as well as a more experimental and naturalistic approach to listening. Now at Le Fresnoy, she is a practice-based PhD candidate at the University of Lille, focusing on the relations between sound arts and acoustic ecology.

VISUAL DESIGN 

Coline L’Achiver
Studio Cosmogram 

“Listening as porosity” is supported by the Creative Scotland Open Fund for Individuals programme.