Korte beschrijving/Annotatie

The world is full of sound. This book opens your ears to it.

Slogan/Promotie

Most of us hear without truly listening. But what is genuine listening? And Another Thing I Heard sets out to open your ears. Composer, artistic researcher and educator Esther Venrooij offers a rich map of the various ways we engage with sound: how it reaches the body before the mind, how it reveals space, and how it carries meaning and memory. Drawing on music, film, philosophy and fieldwork, the book moves from the reverberation of a mosque – where sound and belief are inseparable – to the echo of a parking garage, to Erich Fromm on listening as a form of love, to Spike Jonze’s Her and the intimacy of a disembodied voice, and to Shoshana Zuboff’s concept of surveillance capitalism. The book combines theoretic reflection with hands-on exercises for artists, architects, musicians, performers, artistic researchers, educators, and anyone else who is interested in genuinely listening. Listening, as it turns out, is not a background activity. It is how we meet the world.

Biografie

Esther Venrooij is composer, artist, and educator. She is professor of Mixed Media and Audio Topography at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts in Ghent.

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Prélude MODES OF LISTENING 1 Perceptual listening 1.1 Object listening 1.2 Causal listening 1.3 Spatial listening 1.4 Somatic listening 2 Interpretive listening 2.1 Semantic listening 2.2 Musical listening 2.3 Affective listening 3 Contextual listening 3.1 Expanded listening 3.2 Intersubjective listening 3.3 Critical listening PRACTICES OF LISTENING 1 Listening to spaces 2 Walking and listening 3 Listening with the body 4 Listening to the umwelt 5 Ethnographic listening 6 Interspecies listening 7 Surveillance listening 8 Forensic listening 9 Listening with tools 10 Diagnostic listening 11 Listening beyond human perception 12 Listening to music 13 Listening to silence 14 Listening with the eyes 15 Sacred listening Afterthought EXERCISES OF LISTENING 1 Objects 2 Surfaces 3 A space 4 Hands 5 The unspoken 6 Imagined sound 7 Feet 8 A silent argument 9 Silents thoughts 10 Empty space 11 Blindfold 12 Whispers 13 To wander 14 A place 15 Focus 16 A stick 17 Collective map 18 Sounding in 19 Sonic shadow 20 A room 21 Echoes 22 Sensing a space 23 Phantom sounds 24 A sound is just a sound 25 Cacti, leaves and stones 26 A signal to move 27 With my knee 28 Resonance 29 A coridor 30 A chair 31 The conversation 32 The everyday 33 Overlay 34 Juxtaposition 35 We meet on empty walls 36 A real fake 37 Sound objects 38 A window 39 After-sound 40 Static 41 After-image 42 A memory 43 At night 44 Presence 45 On the edge of hearing 46 Sound walk 47 Exquisite corpse 48 A line 49 Texture 50 Sonic perspective 51 Notation 1: space 52 A lecture 53 The unheard voice 54 A place that no longer exists 55 The song 56 Call for action 57 The interviewer’s shadow 58 A secret 59 A splash in the dark 60 A map of echoes 61 Funnel 62 A resonant object 63 A voice 64 Between the words 65 Notation 2: time 66 Stretching our ears 67 Inner space CHRONOLOGIES Listeners Mediography ABOUT Practice Publications Artistic research Listening locations Thanks Colophon

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