Dr. Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn
Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn is a performer, sound artist, and scholar working around the edges of installation, improvisation, composition, and craft. He has been building traditional, experimental, and invented instruments for decades and currently presents performance installations throughout Europe and North America with hybrid acoustic instruments of his own invention and construction.
His most recent book on material voices and collective creativity, Hylo Narrans: Echoes of Material Agency, was published by Open Book Publishers in 2025, and his previous monograph on craft, sound, and material agency, dis/cord: Thinking Sound through Agential Realism, was published in 2022 by Punctum Books. He is a founding member of hoodwink (with Winnie Huang), Blechtrommel (with João Carlos Pacheco), and les Trombones de Bâle, and performs regularly at preeminent new music festivals.
Since 2023, he is a researcher and docent at Leiden University.
- Introduction into Sound Art
Bachelor Course
Presentations and demonstrations of work-in-progress by Colette Aliman and Wen Chin Fu.
- Hylo Narrans: Echoes of Material Marronage Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn
New monograph examining the acoustic agency of brass and how it resonates with histories of extraction, resistance, and collective creativity.
Presentations and demonstrations of work-in-progress by Colin Tucker and Luis Lecea Romera.
Presentation and demonstration of work-in-progress by Hans Fidom on the organ of the Laurenskerk in Rottterdam.
- Sounds, Cities, Art, and Ecology
Panel convened in the context of the fifth Uncommon Senses conference, “Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences”.
- SSC Workshop with Josephine Hoegaerts and Tatiana Rosa
Presentations and demonstrations of work-in-progress by Josephine Hoegaerts and Tatiana Rosa.
- SSC Workshop with Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Rachel Beckles Willson
Presentations and demonstrations of work-in-progress by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and Rachel Beckles Willson.
Presentations of work-in-progress by Linnea Semmerling, Andrea Giolai, and Elif Özcan.
Presentations and demonstrations of work-in-progress by Ela Fasllija and Gabey Tjon a Tham.
- SSC Workshop with Siamak Anvari and Caeso
Presentations and demonstration of work-in-progress by Siamak Anvari and Caeso.
- SSC Workshop with Marcel Cobussen and Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn
This first ever SSC Workshop features presentations on work-in-progress by Marcel Cobussen and Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn.
- The Sounded City
The extracurricular course The Sounded City is intended to expose and explore the complex webs of acoustic presence stretching in, through, and around our cities and neighborhoods.
- dis/cord: Thinking Sound through Agential Realism Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn
Monograph exploring agential realism as a platform to approach thinking with, through, and about sound.
- Sound, Space, and the Home(less) Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn
Peer-reviewed article examining the boundaries of domesticity and proposing sound as a means to instigate practices of spatial recorporealization.
- Poiesis and the Performance Practice of Physically Polyphonic Notations, DR. KEVIN TOKSÖZ FAIRBAIRN
PhD project
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