Listening Session

29. April 2024 • Severin Kolb, tracy september, Aio Frei, Tizia Zimmermann

LISTEN

DANCING BREATH

LISTEN

LONG SOUND

SOUND LONG

BREATHE LONG

LISTEN

In her composition "Horse Sings from the Cloud" from 1975, which is based on her own poem of the same name, the American composer Pauline Oliveros listens to the sounds of her accordion until she feels the need to change them. It is one of her early text-based compositions, from which she developed the concept and practice of "deep listening" in dialogue with numerous companions over the course of the 1980s. This approach focuses on the concentrated listening of sounds of all kinds, in the neighbourhood of meditation, awareness and mindfulness practice - an adventure that invites lifelong discovery.

In this guerillaclassics Listening Session, Aio Frei, non-binary sound artist, relational listener, sonic community organiser and current participant in a course at the "Center for Deep Listening", presents the work of Pauline Oliveros, which draws on her lived practice. After short joint exercises and input blocks, accordionist Tizia Zimmermann will play the piece "Horse Sings from the Cloud".

The event marks the start of a series of listening sessions curated by tracy september and Severin Kolb, in which fascinating compositions from various musical genres will be used as a starting point for developing approaches to listening.

 

Language: English, short German summaries

Where: The institute, Elisabethenstrasse 14A, 8004 Zürich

When: 29 April 2024, 19:30

Costs: Pay what you can (according to own possibilities)