My name is Lauren Neefe.

I practice at the intersection of sound design, writing, documentary, and improvisation. I am currently pursuing an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts at Duke University.

My multidisciplinary practice has a name: “Eunoisha.” It shoves a phoneme of grit into Aristotelian “good will” (eunoia) and the sheerest virtuosity (Eunoia).

I collaborate with actors, musicians, and dancers, weaving field recordings and interviews into live performance, such as “F(L)IGHT” (7 Stages Theatre) and "Citizen Greeting | Rite of Return" (Whittier MIll Village Park). I am an award-winning educator and have taught courses on sound studies, poetry, and architecture at distinguished universities and in Georgia state prisons.

If sound is movement, movement describes space, and space is where we negotiate our relations, then justice will make a sound we can listen for. 

My first true love is NYC. It is where I learned to navigate the chaos. The South has made me whole: onetime yogi, sometime cyclist, art lover, pitty whisperer, wannabe hoofer, OK cook, helpless gardener, neighbor, fighter, sister, friend.

the sound is the story.