Published in April 2024, this 240-page full-color publication, designed by Niels Schrader and edited by Alice Twemlow, contains a rich array of essays, Q&As, and project reflections contributed by members of the extended KABK research community who have met and discussed the content at Design Lectorate Research Clubs during the previous year.

The KABK tutor at the centre of this project is the sound practitioner Femke Dekker, also known as Loma Doom. Commissioned by the Design Lectorate, she has led a year-long investigation into how sounding and listening are currently engaged with by tutors, students and staff throughout the University of the Arts The Hague, and how they can be nurtured more fully, specifically in relation to art and design education at KABK.

Initiated by the KABK Design Lectorate, this is the third in a series of publications exploring the methods engaged with in creative practice research. The first edition focused on walking (2020), the second centered on the sense of touch (2022), and in this third iteration we tune into the registers of listening and the sonic.

Coinciding with the launch of the book, Dekker also responded to the increasing interest in the sonic, by curating an exhibition that proposes a new department at the KABK.The exhibit was organized around a playlist of sonic artifacts and excerpts derived from essential theoretical texts, tracks, compilations, listening exercises, field recordings, and broadcasts.

The publication was launched on 4 April, as part of Rewire 2024, with a mesmerizing curatorial performance by special guest, sound theorist and artist Salomé Voegelin and Dekker aka Loma Doom herself.