Underskog

Ny Musikk Bergen & Nordic Sound Art Program presents
DIRTY EAR FORUM: PRESENTATIONS AND PERFORMANCES
Friday, November 1st, 2013

Afternoon, 1:30 – 5pm: Marken 37 (red room)
Claudia Firth / Lucia Farinati & students of the Nordic Sound Art program
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

Evening, 7 – 11pm: Landmark, Kunsthall
David Toop
Binaura / Agoston Nagy
Johnny Herbert
Brandon LaBelle
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

Experiences of listening often lead to confrontations and encounters with noises and
other disturbances, as well as that of intimate sharing and assurance. How often we
seek out familiar music, a quiet place, a comforting rhythm in moments of distress.
And what of the excitement and intensity found in turning up the volume, repeating
a particular expression, exploring the foreign or the mysterious as a break onto the
familiar – such modulations of comfort zones encourage a tuning in to the broader
horizon of experience.

These emotional borders are activated by a listening sensibility, allowing for a
diversity of social contact, which might also provide us with material for types of
practice. The Forum aims to focus on listening as a practice, questioning in what
ways it participates in social life and cultural work. Presentations by sound artists and
theorists in the afternoon seminar will provide entry into this territory of the auditory.
This will be followed by an evening of performances, creating a space of listening
that may equally enrich our appreciation for the poetics and politics of sound’s diverse
movements.

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