Daphne Carr, Sam Gould, Gabriel Mindel, and Aura Satz in Conversation

14th June, 1pm CST / 6pm GMT

Hosted online and in-person at Transmission, Confluence Studio’s new neighborhood social lab, 2521 27th Ave. S Minneapolis, MN USA.

In the winter of 2026 Minneapolis, Minnesota was swarmed by a Federal, militarised force that outnumbered the city’s police force by well over 700%. Knowing that it would be a target of Federal immigration attention well in advance, neighbors trained themselves with knowledge developed and implemented by Chicago, Illinois residents the summer prior. A whistle warning system was one of the key techniques to call for neighbor assistance. What began as a practical tool became something more. A call and a warning, but also a shout, a wail, a collective voice, and a sonic assault, not to mention a kind of keening for the dead and missing as ICE’s assault took its toll over a three month period.

In the wake of so-called Operation Metro Surge, Confluence Studio assembles three thinkers (Gabriel Mindel, Daphne Carr, and Aura Satz) who have thought deeply about the uses, paradoxes, and complexities of sound as a tool of both violence, control, and mutual support and care. Our afternoon conversation will invite Mindel, Carr, and Satz to speak about their work around these themes, as well as open up a conversation in parallel to address the aftermath of this winter’s sonic landscape in Minneapolis.

This program is organized by Confluence Studio and Aura Satz with support, in part, from the AHRC-funded ‘Scoring Warnings’ project hosted at the Royal College of Art, London.