Dr. Elen Flügge

Kurzvita

Dr. Elen Flügge is a writer, researcher and sound artist, focusing on personal and urban sound space, site specific works, and listening perspective. She studied philosophy at Bard College, NY, and a Sound Studies masters at the UdK (University of Arts) in Berlin, focusing on auditory culture and experimental sound installation. Her PhD, "Listening Practices for Urban Sound Space in Belfast" was completed at SARC (Sonic Arts Research Centre) Queen's University Belfast, UK, in cooperation with Recomposing the City research group. Her project used methods drawn from sonic arts and ethnography, such as conversational soundwalks, to explore inhabitants' auditory experience in public spaces and consider potentials of sound urban planning. Flügge has been active in numerous musical projects and ensembles, with violin as well as voice, such as HIVE experimental choir in Belfast. Her publications on sonic arts and listening include a chapter for the Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art (2020). The soundwalk "Womb to Tomb / Lebens(k)lang" was part of the Klangstaetten / Stadtklaenge festival, Braunschweig 2023.