Department of Sounding Manifesto

Femke Dekker

Part of ‘Listening: a Research Method in Art and Design’ of the Lectorat Design at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

Turn On Tune In

Listen Up Listen In

Sounds Right Sounds Sound

 

Welcome to the Department of Sounding 

 

Where we activate your:

absent-minded listening (Yoshihide 2004)

profound listening (Lopez 2004)

reduced listening (Schaeffer, 1967)

deep listening (Oliveros, 2005)

body listening (Leitner, 2008)

ambient listening (Eno, 1978) 

gestalt listening (Cahen, 2011)

acousmatic listening (Schaeffer, 1967) 

spatial listening (Leitner, 1970) 

adequate listening, (Stockfelt, 2004)

collective listening, (LaBelle, 2006) 

affective listening (Wang Jing, 2012)

improvised listening (Ultra-Red, 2012)

schizophonic listening (Murray Schafer, 1977) 

aggressive listening (Kirstein, 2019)

structural listening (Adorno, 1962/1982)

casual listening (Chion, 1994)

imaginative listening (Ihde, 1976)

 

While holding space for your:

screaming sculptures

chirping ceramics

silent paintings

sonic architecture

whispering fabrics

polyphonic performances

ambient interactions

droney methodologies

grungy continuums

chanting prototypes

howling interiors

eco-acoustic storytelling

hissing image making

rattling notations

 

Through learning how to:

Love your listening

Listen to your listening

Perform your listening

Be your listening . . .