What does it mean to be a cyborg? According to the scholar Donna Haraway, “A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction” [ 1 ]. This idea of hybrids and creatures of social reality was the inspiration for this performance lecture. I wanted to explore Haraway’s ideas through sound, t

Photo credit: UiO Energy and Environment, 2025 What happens when research meets creative practice? How can we hear hidden sounds? What is revealed and concealed when we listen to unruliness ? These are some of the questions I explored in my live performance at the UiO Energy & Environment Forum in Oslo, Norway. Building on acoustic research at the Hammeren and Vamma hydroelectric power stations, I performed an improvised composition to share in-progress work and experiment wi