As part of the project “Sound Experiments – Innovative Approaches to Non-Formal Learning,” and in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, KONTEJNER is hosting musician, DJ, sound artist, and composer Mieko Suzuki.

Suzuki will begin her visit in Zagreb with a presentation of her artistic practice for all interested students of the Academy of Fine Arts. She will then work with a group of New Media students, for whom she has designed and prepared an intensive four-day workshop. The workshop will take place from 9 to 12 December 2025, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, and it will encompass range of topics and practical exercises, including soundscape recording, collective composition, guided listening, creative DJing, and other related areas.

The workshop focuses on Deep Listening in the spirit of Pauline Oliveros, combining it with somatic sound practices, and provides opportunities for both creative experimentation and technical practice. They will tune into sound from within the body, expanding awareness, perception, and consciousness. In the first part, participants will experiment with vocal resonance, body memory, and trance states, stepping into a field of unknown possibilities. In the second part, they will focus on field recording, audio editing, composition as well as sound modulation and processing using Ableton Live and CDJs. Participants will work with group improvisation, and these activities will inform and support both individual and collective composition, with dedicated time for discussion and reflection.

Mieko Suzuki (JP/DE) lives in Berlin and works as a DJ, sound artist, musician and composer. Her work is rooted in the materiality of time and space and in transformed states of consciousness, merging the raw power of sound with refined modulation. She is a member of the improvisation trio Contagious, together with Andrea Neumann (Inside Piano, Mixer) and Sabine Ercklentz (Trumpet, Processing), blending avant-garde experimentation and electronic music. Another ongoing project is Broken Vinyl, an audiovisual performance created with visual artist Claudia Rohrmoser, in which sound and image influence each other through the shared source material: vinyl. Since 2009, she has been co-hosting the bi-monthly multidisciplinary event KOOKOO with Arno Raffeiner, at OHM Gallery in Berlin.