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Since the last edition of Sonic Acts I co-ordinate the Critical Writing Workshop, to organise and facilitate the critical blog output and documentation of the festival. The aim of the workshop is to give the participants an insight and some practical tools and feedback to what critical writing can be.  The critical writing workshop Describing the Indescribable is organised by Sonic Acts , The Wire and Gonzo (Circus) .  Following are the notes I took in 2013. A copy in plain pdf is here . The role of documentation.  Documentation of a cultural event is important for several reasons. Events such as Sonic Acts offer a rare opportunity for artists and theorists to be in the same space to enter dialogue and develop new perspectives and connections between different discourses. Via documentation, these forms of knowledge creation can reach a wider audience and be opened up to a public that is not physically at the event. Documentation can also serve as an informatio...