Listening Is Not Neutral
Listening Is Not Neutral
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Quote: Sound carries memory before it becomes language
1890
Percussionist Peter Conradin Zumthor and inventor Gabriel Schneider modify the sound on the bell of the Reformed Church in Gais. Located in the main square of the town, the artistic intervention produces a hypnotic collective listening experience.
Florian Bach and Alexandre Babel play with the idea of negative space and absence in this imagination of their work Ashphalte. Elements such as light, color and sculptures change the objects and their surroundings and create a counterpoint between sound and image.
«I've been fascinated by how circuits and electricity and media change the way you experience the world.»
«Friction brings movement and this friction makes me move personally.»
Japanese artist Kanako Saito’s works explore the dualities of control and the uncontrollable, artificial and natural, city and countryside. Creating an installation with objects from the surroundings of Gais, she endeavours to take meaning out of materials.
the feeling in your ears is like the fruits suddenly ripening
He left Gaza, but it did not leave his ears. A Palestinian sound engineer reflects on how a place becomes a frequency that follows you into exile. What happens when you can no longer filter it out?
a subtle uncertainty about my role as a listener
Episode 24 of the «TIMEZONES» podcast series moves through Singapore and the Malay archipelago gathering voices, songs, and personal stories that are carried across the waters of Southeast Asia.
