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Sonic Commons, Index, Stockholm, 2026. Photo: Tiny Karlsson Savci


Don’t Bring An Instrument
Platform for experiemental sound practices, 2023-ongoing


Don’t Bring An Instrument is a collective project and a series of courses initiated together with Aron Fogelström. The project stems from a desire to approach sound beyond established tools, and explore what emerges when the body, listening, and material itself become the instrument.

The first course, Off Site, took place in the regime of Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, 2024. Together we investigated Stockholm’s sonic landscape and the city’s relation to noise–focusing on sound, decentralization, and socio-political conditions. We visited venues like Fylkingen, invited artists to take us on a walk through residential areas where eviction of cultural spaces has increased, facilitated workshops on visceral sounds.

In 2025, Leakage As Resistance followed, where we examined sound within exhibition contexts and its capacity to renegotiate spatial structures. Here, we worked more hands on with sound’s elusive and sculptural qualities. The course ended with a public sound experiment in R1, the Reactor Hall in Stockholm at KTH, Stockholm.

In 2026, we led the workshop Sonic Commons at Index in dialogue with their exhibition ‘Liberation Radio’. A temporary sound installation extended across three rooms, where microphones and speakers were arranged so that sounds captured in one space were transmitted into another. The installation functioned as an open communication system, drawing on the leaking properties of sound, where voices, movements, and ambient noise were continously displaced and renegotiated between rooms.