’Sonic Interventions’ - New Podcast Set Up to Celebrate Black History Month

The Collaborative Research Center 1512 "Intervening Arts" at Freie Universität Berlin is launching a podcast series on sound, culture, and society. In honor of Black History Month, the new Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1512 "Intervening Arts" based at Freie Universität Berlin will be shining a light on the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in society and higher education by addressing questions surrounding societal participation and equal rights and amplifying the voices of Black people through the podcast "Sonic Interventions." The first two episodes are available to listen to now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Deezer, with new episodes released every two weeks. The first season presents interviews in English with African-American artists, scholars, and activists based in New York who think and work with sound. The first episode features Mendi + Keith Obadike, an Igbo-Nigerian-American couple working as sound artists and scholars in New York. The following episodes showcase the work of guests like musician and yogi Najee Wilson, who will invite the audience to listen to quiet and silent forms, and activist and theater director Charlene Jean, who will speak about the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn in the nineteenth century and the contemporary musical play "BRICKS" on "Retroactive Reparations." Sonic Interventions will be a podcast that centers voices that have often been overheard or misheard, inspiring us to pay more (or a different kind of) attention.