Co-curated with The Audio Cultures Seminar, GradCAM:
Earful - a day of interactivities around listening
May 1st 2009
Project Arts Centre
11-6pm
Free Event
All welcome
On May 1st, the Audio Cultures seminar at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media present a day of public events and activities around listening as a shared space and practice taking place in Project Arts Centre. These will explore aspects of listening as a social and cultural practice to ask what does it mean to listen at the beginning of the twenty first century ?
What is the difference between hearing and listening? Hearing is a physiological function that emphasizes the ear as receptacle, indiscriminate and automatic in its perceptual field. In contradistinction, the ear as an active transducer and amplifier that emphasizes the mental function of listening makes of it attentive, selective and focused. However, such oppositions require further reflection.
The day will be structured around a number of timetabled events and workshops that explore related themes through the practice of listening. In addition throughout the day a series of programmed playlists and recordings that explore the sonic and auditory practices using archival sources, radio broadcasts, field recordings, sound art and commercial recordings.
As part of the earful day, a site specific work walls have ears will run throughout the programme – using an array of contact microphones strategically placed around the building, listeners will be able to hear the building, its systems and operational functions as part of the mix of soundscapes and the listening activities over the day.
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