Musical Utopias Festival: Alison Isadora, Luna Quartet, Pauline Oliveros, Dario Calderone, Ensemble Klang & Go-Eun Im

Sharing Space (with a river). Alison Isadora & Luna Quartet
Isadora’s Sharing Space (with a river) is based on field recordings made in the floodplains of Meinerswijk. During the piece the quartet traverses through the seasons, sometimes in dialogue with recordings or projected collages of photos from the area. Composer and sound artist Alison Isadora hears our human activities as being part of nature: the construction site, the motorbike and chainsaw existing in the same space as the shag, the willow tree and the duck.

Can we find a way to share space with the river, the marshes and all that live within to create a flourishing collective ecosystem? You are invited to listen along!

Pauline Oliveros, Dario Calderone & Ensemble Klang
Ensemble Klang will perform a work by Pauline Oliveros together with bassist Dario Calderone this evening. Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive performance, as well as listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination, and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness, and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth.

Oliveros: “For me Deep Listening is a life long practice. The more I listen the more I learn to listen. Deep Listening involves going below the surface of what is heard, expanding to the whole field of sound while finding focus. This is the way to connect with the acoustic environment, all that inhabits it, and all that there is.

Deep Listening is a practice consisting of listening and sounding exercises and pieces I and others have composed since 1970. The results are processed by group discussions in workshops and retreats. Deep Listening is for musicians as well as participants from other disciplines and interests. Previous musical training is not required.

The key to multi-level existence is Deep Listening – listening in as many ways as possible to everything that can possibly be heard all of the time. Deep Listening is exploring the relationships among any and all sounds whether natural or technological, intended or unintended, real, remembered or imaginary. Thought is included. Deep Listening includes all sounds expanding the boundaries of perception.

We open in order to listen to the world as a field of possibilities and we listen with narrowed attention for specific things of vital interest to us in the world. Through accessing many forms of listening we grow and change whether we listen to the sounds of our daily lives, the environment or music. Deep Listening takes us below the surface of our consciousness and helps to change or dissolve limiting boundaries.

Deep Listening is a birthright for all humans.”

Shadow Forest by Go-Eun Im (ongoing installation)
Shadow Forest is an immersive installation and performance by Korean artist Go-Eun Im that continuously adapts to its surroundings and its audience. Through film, live drawing, shadow play and a layered soundscape, a living environment emerges in which visitors are free to move and shape their own experience.

On 15, 16 & 17 January Go-Eun will present a special live performance within the installation, 19.00-19.45. There’s only space for a small audience, so arrive on time, first come, first serve!
After that, the installation will be open to visitors throughout the evening.