The participative performance Liminal Traces, the so called Solar Sound Picnic, was part of the Angewandte Festival 2026, celebrating acoustic ecologies as a dynamic sound lecture that understands the acoustic world as a phenomenon of resonance. Through the live-curated interplay of field recordings and physical and digital artefacts, the performance traced sonic imprints deeply embedded in our collective memory and presented them as a new listening experience.

Developed within SENSING LIVING SYSTEMS at the AIL, this sound lecture performance explored the intersections of sound, pop history and solar energy – embracing concept, improvisation and the (unexpected) emergent. Powered entirely by a mobile solar unit, it followed its ecological logic to the very end: the performance would stop when the harvested energy runs out.