Making Listening Audible

– a workshop by Lílian Campesato, co-hosted by Bureau for Listening

No special skills are required, just curiosity, a cell phone, and headphones.

Snacks and drinks will be available to refresh us along the way.

Date: 29th of April

Time: 16:00-18:30

Place: Astrid Noacks Atelier, Rådmandsgade 34, 2200 København

Sign-up: by writing to Lílian at lilicampesato@gmail.com or Bureau for Listening at bureauforlistening@gmail.com

What do we truly hear when sounds enter our ears? What do we perceive, what do we amplify, and what do we silence? Listening goes far beyond the sounds that reach our ears. It is shaped by. our background, our bodies, our experiences, and the environments we move through.

This workshop invites participants to experiment with strategies for sharing listening through creative processes, exploring how subjective listening experiences can be communicated in non- verbal ways. Following an introductory presentation on the topic, we will explore the idea of sharing listening through practical exercises, including a listening walk and the creation of individual representations of auditory impressions.

On a personal level, we’ll ask how feelings and sensations, thoughts, and memories are triggered by what we hear. From a social perspective, we’ll consider whether others in the same space might listen as we do, and try to imagine other possible listenings. And from an urban perspective, we’ll explore how listening reveals the character of the place itself — its rhythms, tensions, and moods — and how these qualities shape the shared acoustic environment.

Bio
Lílian Campesato (1981) is a Brazilian artist and researcher. Her practice combines reflective work and inventive actions involving sound, listening, art, and performance. She is currently a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Copenhagen. Her project addresses the idea of sharing someone's listening to access inaudible aspects of the listening experience. By conducting creative and analytic processes the research seeks to reveal a sonic knowledge that can only be achieved through bodily and sensitive experience. The main idea is to explore non-verbal forms of knowledge that can stimulate the development of engaged artistic production and foster the construction of individual's identity, plural narratives, and forms of self-awareness expression.

Documentation and other material from the workshop will be shared here in due time.

Funded by the European Union