TWIXTlab's inquiries in regards with Deaf experience with sound art and music within Audibility, were were brought into play among young adults, in the context of the Social and Educational Actions of the Greek National Opera workshop series, titled "Sound Art and Deaf Experience : Sound as a bodily experience". The workshops were led by TWIXTlab's key researchers and practitioners for Audibility, Dana Papachristou and Yorgos Samantas, with the collaboration of composer Orestis Karamanlis.
The series of educational activities aimed to lay the foundations for a broadening of the listening condition from an auditory experience to an embodied experience. The educational workshops were addressed to deaf and hard of hearing people, as well as to those who participate in the deaf community in any way, regardless of their familiarity with artistic practice. The central educational goals of the program were to reverse the condition of naturalized exclusion, to introduce participants to the world of music and sound art, and to create collaborative sound projects through participatory design and workshop practices. The means deployed for this project were vibration, sound visualization, art history, music theory, and other contemporary technological possibilities.
Workshops were self-contained and participants joined in those of their choice.
The workshops included interpretation in the Greek Sign Language
Our circle of 18 participants in total was enhanced by visits and presentations of expert interlocutors, collaborators and practitioners, Ourania Anastasiadou (ASFA Accessible Education Deptartment), Eva Fotiadi (CARADT, Other Abilities project, NL), Nicole Watson (Surface Area Dance Theatre Company, UK).
The series concluded with a "relaxed performance" of "Radar", a structured improvisational piece by Orestis Karamanlis, composed for the purpose, based on the same-titled digital conduction tool ("radar") he programmed himself on SuperCollider.
