Vibrations of the Present: Tender Radio and Postnatural Currents

July 09, 2025

Tender Frequencies, Collective Futures
A collective Sound Practice from the PIP 2025 Cohort

We’re thrilled to launch Tender Radio, a collective sound project created within the framework of the third edition of our Postnatural Independent Program (PIP 2025).

Over several months of dialogue, experimentation, and collective research, participants from around the world have come together to produce this first season of seven episodes, developed in collaboration with Radio Relativa. The project places sonic and radiophonic practices at the center—as tools for imagination, affective transmission, and shared speculation beyond the written word.

Guided by the complex notion of healing—as both individual and collective—Tender Radio offers a journey through amnesic landscapes of grief, clairvoyant phone calls, stromatolitic intimacy, planetary metabolism, tectonic plate orgies, and rest as transformation.

Episodes were created by the PIP 2025 participants:
Jan Araújo, Inês Barros, Hailey Basiouny, Sabrina Basilio, Lena Becerra, Irina-Anca Bobei, Martina Camani, Helen Yin Chen, Lhotse Collins, Tuçe Erel, Elena Falomo, Anna Ivanova, Tamara Kalo, Anna Karinvinge, Yoojin Lee, Courtney Mackedanz, Fabiana Mapel, Joy Pepe, Javiera Peón-Veiga, Valerie Prinz, Vika Privalova, Kutlwano Ramphele, Julian Rieken, Helene Schulze, Sondi Alessandro, Abri de Swardt, Jess Zamora-Turner, Sara Willa and Joanna Wierzbicka.

With deep thanks to our collaborators:
Tom Fischer (Action Pyramid), Simon Williams (Sunny Graves), Nicolas Jaar, Eli Wewentxu, Goethe-Institut, Intermediae Matadero Madrid, Granpaso, Radio Relativa, and others.

Listen now on Radio Relativa

Now streaming, and now enrolling…

We’ve also opened registrations for our Fall 2025 online seminar series, which brings together two new programs at the intersection of ecology, sound, matter, and postnatural thought.

This fall, we invite you to deepen your practice and thinking through two collective learning journeys—each offering tools, references, and perspectives for navigating the tangled realities of the present.

Early bird registration is now open, with a 20% discount available until July 16.
IPS alumni can access this discount at any time.

POSTNATURAL MATTER
With Gabriel Alonso
Wednesdays | Sept 24 – Oct 14 | 18:00–20:00 CEST
4 online sessions
250€ / 200€ for stuudents & IPS alumni

What is matter, and who decides what it means to be “natural”? This seminar explores postnatural matter: any material or organism intentionally shaped by human intervention—genetically modified seeds, cloned animals, synthetic minerals, lab-grown tissues.

We’ll examine how the nature/culture divide has historically framed matter as passive and extractable, erasing its political, ethical, and ecological agency. Today, these boundaries are collapsing—and in their place, new entanglements emerge.

Through theory and collective discussion, we’ll trace how matter is not inert, but active and relational. It shapes our world as much as we shape it. Within a postnatural framework, matter becomes both archive and agent, holding the potential to transform how we inhabit and imagine the future.

SOUND ECOLOGIES
With Yuri Tuma
Tuesdays | Sept 23 – Oct 13 | 18:00–20:00 CEST
4 online sessions
250€ / 200€ for students & IPS alumni

What does it mean to live—and listen—in a sonic world? This seminar proposes sound as more than vibration: a relational force that links bodies, landscapes, atmospheres, and temporalities. Moving beyond the visual paradigm that dominates Western thought, we’ll explore listening as an act of attunement, resistance, and care.

From field recording and sonic technology to queer theory, colonial critique, and interspecies communication, we’ll trace how sound shapes not only environments but also identities and forms of kinship. The seminar invites us to engage with the idea of the Phonocene—a new era where deep listening becomes a central mode of relating to others, human and nonhuman.

Through theory, artistic practices, collective reflection, and meditative exercises, we will cultivate new forms of sonic awareness—towards a slower, more attentive, and ecologically grounded way of being in the world.

We invite you to tune in, enroll, and imagine with us.

Tender Radio is now streaming, and our Fall 2025 seminars are open for registration—with early bird discounts available until July 16.
More news to come in September, including the launch of the next Postnatural Independent Program 2026, new projects, and upcoming sonic and visual transformations.

Until then, thank you for listening.

Join us on Tender Radio and keep up with us on Instagram and our Website