aio’s (sonic) practice consist of listening workshops, research-based listening performances, essayistic djing, semi-modular synthesis, various forms of microphony and free electroacoustic improvisation. they are deeply interested in questions concerning «ethics of listening» – in socio-political, environmental, embodied and queer practices of listening within its situated contexts, emancipatory possibilities within the sonic realm, forms of non-verbal communication/improvisation and relational composition.
they are a collaborator in various sonic, art, performance and activist projects, listening formats and dj-sets in fortress switzerland, fortress europe and beyond.

aio frei, 1982, lives and works in zurich.

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aio frei is co-founder of oor records/oor saloon. 

oor records is a collective, cooperative and honorary operated record and art bookstore, organic archive and social gathering place for engaged ears.
oor records

oor saloon is a soundart space and production-context focussing on emancipatory collaborative and queer-feminist politics/practices of listening and sound, electronic and electroacoustic music, experimental club culture, performance and sound art. the oor saloon series wishes to create collaborative, multi-sensory and discursive spaces for negotiations of emancipatory artistic practices related to sound/modes of listening and questions of difference/relationality. for  oor saloon aio is responsible for event-conception/programming, organization (together with franziska koch) as well as the graphic design.
oor saloon