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Can you listen like a beginner?
For 43 minutes, professional cellist Melody Giron plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 in G Major. Or rather – she plays parts of its prelude, over and over, searching for her tone. The ending never arrives. The beginning returns again and again, maintaining a state of perpetual preparation. Listen with us to Cally Spooner’s DEAD TIME (Melody’s Warm Up), 2022. Will you unlearn the melody? Can you listen like a beginner?
Collective Ear is a collaboration between Brand-New-Life Magazine and Zurich University of the Arts.
Episode II is composed of fictional writing and collected fragments of conversations that took place on May 7, 2024, during The Poly Listening Club at the Zurich University of the Arts. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or deceased (apart from the artists), may or may not be purely coincidental.
Sound piece: Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Water-Drought Patterns, 2023
Texts: Barbara Preisig
Sound design and edit: Pascal Lund-Jensen
Proofreading: Bram Opstelten
Speakers: Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Kris Decker, Emma Murray, Jarina Müller Frischkopf, Barbara Preisig, Alexander Prince Osei, Maria Rebecca Sautter
Special thanks to:
Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Kris Decker, the speakers, Felix Friedrich, Marcel Bleuler, Minda Deol, Laura von Niederhäusern, and the participating audience
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By Barbara Preisig & Ronja SvaneborgFor 43 minutes, professional cellist Melody Giron plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 in G Major. Or rather – she plays parts of its prelude, over and over, searching for her tone. The ending never arrives. The beginning returns again and again, maintaining a state of perpetual preparation. Listen with us to Cally Spooner’s DEAD TIME (Melody’s Warm Up), 2022. Will you unlearn the melody? Can you listen like a beginner?
Collective Ear is a collaboration between Brand-New-Life Magazine and Zurich University of the Arts.
Episode II is composed of fictional writing and collected fragments of conversations that took place on May 7, 2024, during The Poly Listening Club at the Zurich University of the Arts. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or deceased (apart from the artists), may or may not be purely coincidental.
Sound piece: Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Water-Drought Patterns, 2023
Texts: Barbara Preisig
Sound design and edit: Pascal Lund-Jensen
Proofreading: Bram Opstelten
Speakers: Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Kris Decker, Emma Murray, Jarina Müller Frischkopf, Barbara Preisig, Alexander Prince Osei, Maria Rebecca Sautter
Special thanks to:
Eleni-Ira Panourgia, Kris Decker, the speakers, Felix Friedrich, Marcel Bleuler, Minda Deol, Laura von Niederhäusern, and the participating audience