“I could love my listening. I could listen to me listening. I could perform my listening. I could be my listening.”
– Pauline Oliveros
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This might be a collection of sounds created by a class that was listening in shifty states – the shifty states in which relation becomes an inherently fluctuating endeavour and positionality a complex state, rather than a static moment. Maybe it is an assemblage of soundscapes that explore the political possibilities within the active position of listening and its social effect. Or a compilation that arose out of the recognition of sound as presence and listening as consciously acknowledging an interdependence with this presence. This might be a complex coexistence of sounds, of forms of listening, ways of vibrating and being in flux. It might be the outcome of a collective experiment of students and teachers, virtually reverberating together – window after window, screen after screen, breaking in and out of collective improvisations.
Developed in a practice & listening workshop with Tina Omayemi Reden and Franziska Koch, Autumn 2020.
With contributions by:
Alison Antonioli, Dukagjin Aslani, Florian Briw, Ayana Curschellas,
Amanda del Valle, Daniel Düringer, Zhaoyue Fan, Simon Frey, Ivan Minichiello, Vy Linh Nguyen, wsmgr, Vital Romero, Andrea Todisco