Robert Cole Rizzi

How does the world sound when we truly listen? In this participatory workshop, participants explore their sonic environment through attentive listening, simple drawing, poetry, and playful composition — no musical experience required.
The workshop begins with a guided soundwalk, where participants listen closely to everyday sounds while also making small line drawings based on visual details in the environment, such as skylines, patterns, trees, or bushes. Back indoors, the listening experiences are transformed into short poetic texts, and the drawings are translated into music using mechanical music boxes.
The workshop offers an accessible and hands-on introduction to sound-based creativity, showing how artistic processes can emerge from listening, observation, and simple materials. Developed over more than ten years at the Danish National Academy of Music (SDMK), the format has been tested with a wide range of participants, from schoolchildren to professional artists.