As a sound and voice educator, Yuwan Zhang believes that the human voice carries the power to represent memory, identity, and embodied knowledge. Yuwan’s teaching and practice explore how vocal expression can reconnect people with their sensory histories and turn listening into a lived, reflective experience.

Sound & Memory Workshop: Embodied Re-voicing of Childhood Soundscapes was developed in collaboration with NOLO LAB and presented within the context of the Multicultural Arts Festival in Melbourne, Australia, in November 2025, where NOLO LAB participated as an exhibiting organization. The online workshop invited participants to explore sound as something felt and lived, rather than performed or analyzed.

Over the course of one hour, participants moved through a series of guided experiences, including conscious listening, gentle touch-based meditation, handwritten sound journaling, and the re-creation of childhood sound memories through voice and simple gestures. The structure was intentionally open and slow, allowing participants to follow their own pace and curiosity.

Feedback from participants was warm and engaged. Several people shared that the workshop helped them notice aspects of themselves they had not reflected on before, particularly how early sound experiences continue to shape the way they listen and respond in daily life. Others appreciated the lack of pressure to explain or label their experiences, describing the process as grounding and clarifying.

As part of the session, each participant recorded a short sound inspired by a childhood memory. With permission, these recordings were collected and saved. They will be used as raw material for the next stage of the project, where the sounds will be woven into a new sound-based artwork.

This workshop marked the starting point of an ongoing collaboration, opening up further possibilities for working with voice, memory, and embodied listening across different cultural contexts.

作为一名声音与人声实践的教育者，峪晚彰始终相信，人声承载着记忆、身份与身体经验。峪晚彰的教学与创作关注声音如何帮助人重新连接自身的感官历史，并让“聆听”成为一种真实发生的体验与反思过程。

“童年，声音与记忆行为艺术工作坊”是在澳大利亚墨尔本多元文化艺术节（Multicultural Arts Festival in Melbourne, Australia）背景下，与NOLO LAB合作开展的线上工作坊项目。本次活动邀请参与者以一种贴近身体的方式，探索声音如何被感受、被记起，而不是被表演或被分析。

在约一小时的活动中，参与者依次经历了觉察聆听、轻柔的触觉冥想、手写声音笔记，以及通过声音与简单动作复刻童年记忆中的声响等环节。整体结构刻意放慢节奏，为每个人保留足够的空间，让体验自然展开，而不是被推动或解释。

参与者反馈整体积极而真诚。多位参与者在分享中提到，这次体验让他们对自己产生了新的认识，尤其是第一次意识到早期的声音经验如何在不知不觉中影响了当下的感受方式与反应。有参与者表示，在没有被要求说明或分析的情况下，反而更容易进入一种清晰而放松的状态。

在活动过程中，每位参与者都录制了一段与童年记忆相关的声音片段。在取得参与者同意的前提下，这些声音被统一收集与保存，并将作为下一阶段艺术创作的素材基础，继续延展这一项目的生命。

本次工作坊也标志着一个持续合作的开始，为未来围绕声音、记忆与具身聆听的更多实践打开了可能性。