Alternative Listening Perspectives
«To listen, even where one would expect not to hear anything worthwhile, breaks through the restrictions of collectively practiced routines and orthodoxies and explores ways of finding alternative listening perspectives.»
The quote is taken from the article «Ordering of Sounds: The Homogenization of Listening in the Age of Globalized Soundscapes» published 2020 in the «Agosto Foundation: Mediateka». Last accessed on December 11, 2020.
Biography
Sabine Breitsameter is an author, director and dramaturge. Her work focuses on electroacoustic art forms, cultures of perception, experimental radio, media history, media ecology, trans- and interculture. Since 2006, she has been teaching and researching as a professor of sound and media culture at Darmstadt University of applied sciences. She currently directs the master’s program international media cultural work there. Follow her on LinkedIn.
Published on December 15, 2019
Last updated on April 02, 2024
Topics
Listening
A generative practice that promotes different knowledge. One that listens is never at a distance but always in the middle of the sound heard.
Soundscape
How do acoustic environments affect human life? In which way can a city entail sounds of repression?
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