Phase III – Territorial Listening

When do I stay within my own listening territories and when do I start to perceptually penetrate other territories? What does it mean to expand the territory for one’s own listening? […] Expanding the territory of one’s listening involves taking part in the public socio-ethical negotiations of the sonically and auditorily private in order to generate new affects, new opening. Thus, it not only renegotiates the border between private and public. It engages in the unpredictable emergent process of a simultaneous publication of the private and re-privatization of the public. This is the aggressive potential of expanded listening: widening horizons and crossing borders and produce new emergent affects by making the public perform as private and vice versa.

(Written by Ulrik Schmidt, in Handbook of Aggressive Listening).

Score for a possible aggressive territorial listening action:

For one person, or a dispersed group or people.

Time and place undisclosed – preferable during dark/night time or rush-time, in a city centre or remote nature.

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Sit, stand or lay down, in a manner that is suitable and blends in in an environment.

Listen (secretly, as an instrument, as a weapon ready to be fired).

Extend your attention to someone, something, somewhere. Surround it. Infiltrate it.

Insist on your listening (you are now altering the circumstances of the person, the thing, space, and place – the territory).

Get out of the environment before you are identified as the agent of aggressive listening.

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This happening is not to be proclaimed and transmitted. It must happen in secrecy.

 

 

(Lessons from the Handbook in Aggressive Listening)

SOMETIME THE BEST WEAPON

IS NO WEAPON AT ALL

 

LISTEN AGAINST THE PATH

LISTEN AGAINST THE STREAM

 

SOLUTION IS A LIE

LISTENING IS A SURVIVAL SKILL

 

DISTRACTED LISTENING IS A KEY

TO AN UNKNOWN UNLOCKED DOOR

CONTEXT ARE PENETRABLE BY OTHER CONTEXTS

YOUR LISTENING OPTIONS CAN BE CHANGED

 

STEALTH BY INVOLVEMENT

 

LISTEN THE OTHER WAY

 

 

There will be no further documentation of this action.