ATMOSPHERIC EXPLORATORY SONIC GATHERING
✧ ANDREW PEKLER ✧ ŠIROM ✧ SLOWFOAM ✧ DOLPHINS INTO THE FUTURE ✧ MONOPOLY CHILD STAR SEARCHERS ✧ ORSOLYA KAINCZ ✧ REPTILIAN EXPO ✧ ÇAYKH ✧ BEEPBLIP ✧ NIKO LFO ✧ BIODRON ✧ LIE IDLE ✧ MSN GF ✧ HC-(M) ✧ LUKAS ✧ NITZ ✧ PIXEL BAMBI ✧ MIA DUNI ✧ WHITEGIRLSTUDYPLAYLIST ✧ NOITU ✧ A. CERTO ✧ SWAMP_MATTER ✧ KUMAH ✧ ZHLEHTET ✧ LOTTIE ✧ VITAL ROLE ✧ RIBEIROIA ✧ CP-AK ✧ SAŠA SPAČAL ✧ MAURICIO VALDES ✧ OKA ✧ D U F ✧ NULLA ✧ MARKO PAUNOVIČ ✧ DJ FINAL FORM ✧ TREMONETA ✧ EVANO ✧ SLOWMOTION LIVESTREAM ✧ ŠČU ✧ VUKAŠIN ĐELIĆ ✧ ANASTA ✧ MARIESOUNDSYSTEM ✧ LIMBO LIGHTNING ✧ NALAX TEMUS ✧ GABI98 ✧ ALLJA ✧ 198319831983 ✧ UKI ✧ TILEN SEPIČ ✧ ZLITJE ✧ FORAGING WORKSHOP ✧ GUIDED SOUNDWALK ✧ YIN YOGA WORKSHOP ✧ AMBIENT SOUP SHOWCASE ✧ IMAGINARY RADIO STATIONS SHOWCASE ✧ CLOCKWORK VOLTAGE SHOWCASE ✧
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°˖✧NīANSA✧˖° is an interspecies outdoor gathering initiative placing a primary focus on fostering collective, deep listening experiences by exploring the symbiosis between soundscape and landscape. Embracing a DIY, self-organizing ethos, our aim is to create a safe and vibrant platform where diverse artistic communities converge and participate in spontaneous exchanges, freeform collaborations, sound experiments, live music, and audio-visual experiences.
We also place a significant emphasis on site-specific DJ selections and sound collages, adding an additional dimension to our sonic gatherings. This aspect weaves together eclectic, genre-defying auditory explorations, aiming to create immersive travelogue experiences which fully resonate with the surrounding environment.
Our gatherings invite curious individuals to reflect on the interconnectedness of nature and human experience by completely immersing themselves in the sonic environment, thus cultivating a heightened awareness of sound and its profound impact on perception and consciousness.
In addition to the auditory experiences, we also place a significant focus on the hospitable and visual dimensions of our gatherings. Scenography-related works such as projection mappings, site-specific installations, contemporary dance performances, and an enhanced focus on unique world-building experiences occupy the landscape zone during NīANSA's gatherings, offering an all-inclusive sensory delight for all the voyagers traversing with us.ッ
Amidst the primordial karst terrain of Slovenia’s Rakov Škocjan, we craft intentional spaces for collective listening and shared discovery, giving life to a transient, ephemeral community powered by mutual exchange between audiences, artists, and the intimate environment shared by humans
and non-humans alike.
The program unfolds across three days and nights as a continuous stream, from amber mornings to velvet hours, interweaving avant-garde ambience and electronics, left-field sonics, exploratory dance, morphing club textures, augmented field recordings, and all-around sonic experimentalism. Beyond the auditory dimension, scenographic works—such as site-specific installations, contemporary movement performances, and unique world-building experiences—transform the landscape zone during NīANSA, offering a full-spectrum sensory delight for every voyager traversing with us.
The communal aspects of the gathering emerge organically, with shared curated meals and artisan-crafted liquid offerings amid bespoke chill-out spaces facilitating natural and impromptu interactions between participants. The luminous karst terrain becomes both venue and creative collaborator through site-responsive works such as projection mappings that shapeshift across limestone faces, environmental sound works that converse with the elements, and performances that emerge organically from the landscape itself.
NiANSA2k24 PHOTO CREDITS: ASIJANA JURCA AVCI & URŠA RAHNE