The presentation “Writing Aloud: Audio, Text and Criticality” explores a simple question: what is the relationship between listening and writing? Moving between text-based and audio-based criticism, it traces a shift from the written and read to the spoken and heard. The recording script and the transcript embody the intermedial promise of these passages. This space between text and audio signals the possibility of criticism as conversation — not a solitary exercise, but something polyphonic, horizontal and alive to the urgencies of listening. Through the idea of “vestibular criticism,” listening becomes a way of orienting oneself through practices of art, language and life itself.