WORKSHOPS, Talks & Lectures
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
Photograph by EH Jean Malick, Dakar, Senegal.
Teaching, mentoring, workshops and public programmes are an integral part of Atanga’s practice, bringing together listening, making and conversation. His work in this area ranges from field recording, creative audio and music production to podcasting, radio broadcasting and artist talks. Through practical exercises, collective listening and discussion, participants explore how sound can help us pay attention to a place, shape an idea or carry an experience into new work.
Photograph by EH Jean Malick, Dakar, Senegal.
A/V talk on the theme of restitution of cultural artefacts, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2025
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
His pedagogy is collaborative and grounded in exchange. Participants bring their own knowledge and references; ideas are tested together, and learning moves in both directions. This approach reflects the wider practice, where research develops through listening, experimentation and encounters with people, materials and places. A workshop is one of the spaces in which that work can be shared, questioned and changed.
His current focus is a workshop series in development across Dakar and Berlin, exploring field recording and how environmental sounds and other ecological material can become compositional tools, with Ableton Live at its centre.
Photograph by Eglė Ščiukaitė, humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany.
In recent years, Atanga has developed and contributed to workshops with Apple Music, Ableton, Goethe-Institut, Pioneer, Resident Advisor, Carhartt, Partcours Dakar and Open Music Labs, among others. His talks and public programmes have included Galerie Wedding, AVA Festival London, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Black Artist Database and the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.