Sonic Protest – How does music respond to injustice?
On Tuesday July 15th at 6PM, Kiosk Radio hosts its very first TMLAB roundtable, taking place on the terrace in Parc Royal.
This one-hour panel explores music as a powerful tool for protest and resistance, featuring insights from M I M I, Rrita Jashari, and Youniss, with moderation by NYC based producer Suzi Analogue.
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On 15 July 2025, TMLAB partners with Kiosk Radio to host its next community-driven roundtable on sonic activism, live from the Kiosk Radio terrace in Parc Royal (Turin). The session, titled “Sonic Protest — How does music respond to injustice?”, will bring together multidisciplinary artists M I M I, Rrita Jashari, and Youniss, for a one-hour conversation exploring music as a medium that reacts to injustice, displacement, and systemic violence.
The discussion will be moderated by Brooklyn-based producer Suzi Analogue, whose artistic practice bridges global club sound, protest cultures, and experimental production, reinforcing TMLAB’s facilitation ethos of transnational exchange and political sound mediation.
What to expect
The event is part of the broader TMLAB mission to enable curators and artists to examine how sound ecologies operate as political communication tools, shaping public space through dialogue rather than prescription.
More information: TMLAB Roundtable – Sonic Protest: How does music respond to injustice? | Facebook
This June, the African Voices Festival joins Plásmata 3 at Pedion tou Areos for a series of powerful sonic roundtables that center African diasporic narratives, embodied knowledges, and community-led discourse, with the support of TMLAB project. From the grassroots to the public square, the festival transforms the exhibition into a dynamic site of listening, storytelling, and cultural encounter—where voices are not only heard but amplified.
Organized by the Kelenya collective, the community of Côte d’Ivoire, the Guinean nationals’ community, and Community Rights in Greece, and presented in collaboration with Onassis Stegi, this year’s edition brings forth conversations shaped by experience, memory, and movement.
On Friday, June 6, four roundtable discussions will take place under the trees of Pedion tou Areos—bridging music, citizenship, belonging, and dance with the lived realities of African diasporic communities in Athens.
These sonic roundtables, as part of the TMLAB project, reimagine public space as a space of agency—of self-definition, of cultural resistance, of collective memory. At a time when questions of visibility, voice, and representation are more urgent than ever, the African Voices Festival makes room for narratives spoken from the community—not for it.
Learn more about the exhibition: Plásmata 3 | We’ve met before, haven’t we? — Exhibition, Art in Public Space | Onassis Foundation
Learn more about the African Voices Festival in Plasmata 3: The African Voices Festival at Plásmata 3 | The voices of the African diaspora at Pedion tou Areos park and the Onassis Stegi — Music, Dance, Workshop | Onassis Foundation
TMLAB will take part in Nuits sonores Lab 2025 through a talk co-curated with and broadcasted on Tbilisi-based Mutant Radio, as part of an evening dedicated to the cultural and political realities of Ukraine and Georgia. At the heart of this programme, the panel “Representation & Transnational Solidarities” (May 30th, 8–9pm CET, streamed on Mutant Radio) addresses a key question: how can the representation of Eastern European artists in the European electronic music scene help raise awareness and foster solidarity with the local struggles they face?
In the face of war, authoritarian pressure, and shrinking civic spaces, the underground scenes in Ukraine and Georgia remain vital spaces of resistance and self-expression. Featuring Nastya Vogan (DJ, Ukraine) and Monster (Oramics Platform, Poland), and moderated by Nino Davadze and Mariam Otarashvili, the discussion will explore how visibility on international stages can strengthen networks of support, build transnational alliances, and contribute to broader democratic movements.
This talk is embedded in a wider Mutant Radio programme taking over Nuits sonores’ radio booth on Friday, May 30 including listening sessions, stories from Ukraine’s cultural frontlines, and conversations on protest and digital resistance in Georgia. Together, these segments investigate the role of independent culture in politically unstable environments and the importance of sustaining cross-border connections.
TMLAB’s contribution reflects its broader commitment to supporting and empowering emerging artists from underrepresented communities across Europe.
More Information: Nuits sonores | Nuits sonores 2025 : the full line-up is here!
