Tune in to 'Water Chronicles LIVE' from London produced by Insola, Blanc Sceol, and Surge Cooperative with broadcast engineering by Ian Thompson. 

Live environmental stream boxes will be located on the Channelsea river platform (Berlin) during the live programme there in July, and on Channelsea river and ‘A Slice of Reality’ and the Channelsea river (London), during the live programme in September, open ears to the sonic worlds of each city.

These environmental streams will be interspersed with the live events in each city, and a curated feed from artists and friends of the project.

Water Chronicles LIVE On the Thames / Channelsea, London

LIVE BROADCAST

Saturday 5th September, 11am - 1pm - at the Long Wall Ecology Garden

Floating Commons (workshop)

guided by Insola team, Federico Forestiero & Fiete Wulff

Can you imagine what happens when public space meets water?

In this hands-on workshop, participants are invited to imagine and build small floating models, vessels, and rafts using simple materials: sticks, corks, string, branches, leaves, and other lightweight elements.

The aim is to explore, through physical scale models, how we might create floating commons: spaces on the water, shaped by the water, and made for people.

This workshop is part of the monthly Eco Gathering faciliated by Surge Cooperative - MORE INFO AND SIGN UP HERE

Saturday 5th September, 7pm - 11pm - on board 'A Slice of Reality'

We Hold All of the Memory That Water Holds (live performance) by Nour Sokhon

We Hold All of the Memory That Water Holds is an improvised performance bringing together archival material from Vocal Bodies, an intervention in Beirut in 2021, with voices, footsteps, gestures, and movements gathered during Harbouring Voices, sound workshop at Berlin’s Westhafen in 2025 as part of Dissident Paths programme. Two moments, two places, meeting through sound. The performance unfolds like water: repeating, carrying, eroding, contaminating, preserving. Memories surface and dissolve; voices travel through bodies, altered by what they encounter. Through improvisation, fragments are recomposed, creating a space where memory cannot remain fixed, and where what has passed continues to move.

Tuce Alba (live performance)

A live set of noise, distortion, feedback and bass. Loud, direct and physical.

RECLAIMING THE PLEASURE OF THE INTERGALACTIC MERMAID (lecture performance) by Nicol Rivera

A lecture performance based on the myth of the pincoya, mermaid from the chiloé mythology in the south of Chile, reinterpreted from a technofeminist perspective. Revisiting the myth, tackling it as an speculative and intergalactic version of the mermaid, is trying to generate a bridge between contemporary DIY technological practices with ancestor technologies and beliefs from the south of Chile and the ancient mythology of those waters. The performance extends these questions into the body, sound, pleasure, and speculative embodiment, imagining the mermaid as a posthuman figure that moves between ancestral memory and intergalactic futures, between aquatic matter and technological transformation.

LIVE ENVIRONMENTAL STREAM BOXES:

- Hydrophones from 'A Slice of Reality'

- In air mics at Channelsea River

- In air mics at Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park

All using Sound Camp live stream boxes and the Locus Sonus platform.

SOUND WORKS FROM FRIENDS & COLLABORATORS:

A curated feed of audio works involving the Spree from artists and friends of the project.

Radio Otherwise: “Tuning in to the Acoustic Commons: radio, waterways, and collective listening”

Lecture Performance from the conference “Time to Listen. Multispecies Creativity in Music and Sound.”

The conference is jointly organised by inm / field notes and the Academy of Arts Berlin, in collaboration with Musikfonds e.V. and Impuls neue Musik.

Radio Otherwise set up multiple microphones, hydrophones, antennas and receivers on the Insola floating platform at Rummelsburg Bay in Berlin, and transmited these signals live to the Academy of the Arts, blending listening to these inputs and infrastructures with reflections on previous durational transmission works that brought together parallels between waterways and electromagnetic transmission as infrastructures of flow—in terms of more-than-human agency, human access to and infiltration of these systems, as well as leakages and disturbances.

Radio Otherwise (Monaí de Paula Antunes, Kate Donovan, Niko de Paula Lefort) is an ongoing artistic research project that explores the plurality of experiences in radio-making through ecological thinking.

https://www.field-notes.berlin/en/conferences/time-listen-2026

The Order of Anura by Jol Thoms

Anuras' (Frogs/Toads/Salamanders) are the vertebrates hardest hit by climate devastation. This hour-long program of other than human sacred music and history is in response and dedicated to those most endangered by extinction: the amphibians. We resonante our ritual recordings into the Spree re-activating it as a planetary scale amplifier for our shared cross-species messages of urgency, care and concern. The Order of Anura attune and develop new sensibilities to the imperatives and sympoetics of beyond-the-human worlds and our mutual embeddedness, as global health plummets with direct ties to the loss of so many species of amphibian.

The Well of Mothers by Margarida Mendes

Merging the hidden waters of underground Lisbon — with its sunken rivers and wells of fortune — with the meandering flows of the Spree, this cross-watery broadcast interweaves spatial dimensions and sonic thresholds to establish new liquid horizons. Resonating from a well deep inside Earth’s trenches, it invites the breath of aether to travel across physical space and conduct its own vibratory magic, weaving thus a cartography of the senses.

LISTEN on SHIFT TTF Radio (Cardiff & online)

Broadcasting 24/7 from Cardiff, Wales. A community run radio station exploring experimental music, sound art, documentary, spoken word, and field recordings, committed to amplifying work outside the mainstream.

LISTEN on Archipel Community Radio (Berlin & online)

Archipel Stations Community Radio is an itinerant webradio occupying venues worldwide, from where events are broadcast and programs from elsewhere are transmitted live. We are a public-spirited platform. Our focus is on sound and narrative, finding in these two realms strong foundations for emancipation and encounters of the personal and the political, along with oneself and otherness, through shared experience and art.

LISTEN on Wave Farm (New York & online)

Wave Farm is an international transmission arts organization driven by experimentation with the electromagnetic spectrum. We cultivate creative practices in radio and support artists and nonprofit organizations in their cultural endeavors.

LISTEN on Resonance Extra (London) over the summer

Time & date TBC

The UK's only 24/7 digital broadcasting platform dedicated to sound art, radio art and experimental music. Based in London, it broadcasts online via its website, Tune In and Radioplayer and on DAB+ Digital Radio to a footprint of 4 million people in Brighton & Hove, Cambridge, Greater London, Norwich, King's Lynn and Peterborough.