Radio ArtEZ

In contemporary Western culture we seem to have lost an intimate connection with the land. More often than not we consider our surroundings as a passive backdrop in which humankind can take center stage: controlling the landscape, developing infrastructures, and extracting resources at will. This rather anthropocentric position has become unviable, however, as recent human-driven ecological crises – like climate change, the dramatic loss of biodiversity and large-scale destruction of habitats – are clearly indicating. If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth.

In the context of the project Land, studium generale commissioned the Radio ArtEZ series Sounding Places / Listening Places in which writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, musician, writer, poet, and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so.

In this second episode we focus on urban and domestic sounds with field recordist, musician and researcher Peter Cusack and sound artist Elise 't Hart.

Shownotes

Reading

• Cusack, Peter, Berlin Sonic Places: A Brief Guide (Wolke Verlag)
• Cusack, Peter, Sounds From Dangerous Places (ReR Megacorp, 2011)
• Voegelin, Salomé, Listening to Noise and Silence

Links

• Peter Cusack: https://www.crisap.org/people/peter-cusack/
• Favourite Sounds: https://www.favouritesounds.org/
• Sounds From Dangerous Places: https://www.sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/
• Elise 't Hart: https://www.elisethart.com/

Sounding Places - Listening Places was commissioned by ArtEZ Studium Generale. Interviews, texts and voice overs by Sharon Stewart and Joep Christenhusz. It is produced by Ondercast for Studium Generale ArtEZ. Studium Generale curator for this series: Catelijne de Muijnck

This three-part miniseries centers around Deep Listening®, the lifework of composer, musician, writer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros. Aspects of this creative and meditative practice are shared from the perspectives of Sharon Stewart, Tina Pearson and Lisa E. Harris, Deep Listening certificate-holders.

In the first mini-episode Sharon Stewart offers facets of her connection to Deep Listening along with some of the history of the practice, as related to the sonic environment – or the sonosphere – with pertinent excerpts from Oliveros' text scores. Together with Sharon Stewart you can perform a seminal Sonic Meditation, number VIII: Environmental Dialogue.

Shownotes:

"Listening to Deep Listening: Reflection on the 1988 Recording and the Lifework of Pauline Oliveros", by Sharon Stewart, Journal of Sonic Studies, 2012

Excerpt from an essay from 2007 – entitled My "American Music": Soundscape, Politics, Technology, Community. This essay can be found in the book Sounding the Margins by Pauline Oliveros.

Excerpts from a 2006 article "Improvisation in the Sonosphere" for Contemporary Music Review. This essay can be found in the book Sounding the Margins by Pauline Oliveros.

"Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice".

The introduction details a short conceptual story of the practice, followed by various exercises for personal and group practice and process training, a number of Deep Listening Scores and questions and concluding with an Appendix of essays written by participants.

∞ = 0 poem by Pauline Oliveros, printed in The Roots of the Moment (1998: 27).

"Pauline Oliveros" at Red Bull Music Academy, Hosted by Hanna Bächer

Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice, 2005. New York: iUniverse, Inc.

Deep Listening Album 1989 with Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis

TEDx Talk 2015 The difference between hearing and listening | Pauline Oliveros | TEDxIndianapolis

The Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer (RPI)

Deep Listening® Retreats

Anthology of Text Scores by Pauline Oliveros (2013) Deep Listening Publications

"VII: Environmental Dialogue" from Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros (1971) Smith Publications

Excerpts from "Healing Dream Mandala: Beehive version," by IONE and "Slow Walk, Slow Song" by Pauline Oliveros, led by Jennifer Wilsey, at the Ratna Ling Deep Listening® Retreat in 2018. Both recordings were made and edited by Sharon Stewart.

Sounding Places - Listening Places was commissioned by ArtEZ Studium Generale. Interviews, texts and voice overs by Sharon Stewart and Joep Christenhusz. It is produced by Ondercast for Studium Generale ArtEZ. Studium Generale curator for this series: Catelijne de Muijnck

In contemporary Western culture we seem to have lost an intimate connection with the land. More often than not we consider our surroundings as a passive backdrop in which humankind can take center stage: controlling the landscape, developing infrastructures, and extracting resources at will. This rather anthropocentric position has become unviable, however, as recent human-driven ecological crises – like climate change, the dramatic loss of biodiversity and large-scale destruction of habitats – are clearly indicating. If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth. 

In the context of the project Land, studium generale commissioned the Radio ArtEZ series Sounding Places / Listening Places in which writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, musician, writer, poet, and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so.

In this first episode we focus on the natural soundscape with musician and soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause, composer Evelien van den Broek and soundscape composer and Acoustic Communication Researcher Barry Truax.

Shownotes:

In the audio examples from Evelien van de Broek's Biophonica the following field recordings were used:

• on track 'I Rainforest', we heard recordings by Bernie Krause, PhD.
• the field recordings on track 'III The Last Northern White Rhinoceros' were provided by Dr. Ivana Cinková of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Palacký University Olomouc.
• the field recordings on track 'IV The Blue Whale' were retrieved from Freesound.org

This episode also uses a field recording of the Brazilian rainforest by Reinsamba: https://freesound.org/people/reinsamba/

Reading and Listening

• Krause, Bernie, The Great Animal Orchestra (Back Bay Books, 2013)
• LaBelle, Brandon, Background Noise, Perspectives on Sound Art (Bloomsbury, 2006)
• Schafer, R Murray, The Soundscape, Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World (Destiny Books, 1994)
• Truax, Barry, Acoustic Communication (Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1984)
• Van den Broek, Evelien, Endlings (album): https://evelienvandenbroek.bandcamp.com/album/endlings
• World Soundscape Project, The Vancouver Soundscape (album): https://www.soundohm.com/product/the-vancouver-soundscape

Links

• Bernie Krause: https://www.wildsanctuary.com
• The Great Animal Orchestra (website): https://www.legrandorchestredesanimaux.com/en
• Barry Truax: http://www.sfu.ca/~truax/
• World Soundscape Project: https://www.sfu.ca/~truax/wsp.html
• Evelien van den Broek: https://evelienvandenbroek.com

Sounding Places - Listening Places was commissioned by ArtEZ Studium Generale. Interviews, texts and voice overs by Sharon Stewart and Joep Christenhusz. It is produced by Ondercast for Studium Generale ArtEZ. Studium Generale curator for this series: Catelijne de Muijnck

In contemporary Western culture we seem to have lost an intimate connection with the land. More often than not we consider our surroundings as a passive backdrop in which humankind can take center stage: controlling the landscape, developing infrastructures, and extracting resources at will. This rather anthropocentric position has become unviable, however, as recent human-driven ecological crises – like climate change, the dramatic loss of biodiversity and large-scale destruction of habitats – are clearly indicating. If we wish to develop a more sustainable future, we urgently need to reconnect to our environment and restore a more reciprocal relationship with the earth.

In the context of the project Land, studium generale commissioned the Radio ArtEZ series Sounding Places / Listening Places in which writer and music journalist Joep Christenhusz and creator of sound works, musician, writer, poet, and Deep Listener Sharon Stewart enquire how sound and listening can help us to do so.

This short announcement introduces the series along with its two hosts. Be sure to join us at the live event the 26th of may: 
https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/agenda/sounding+places+listening+places/

Sounding Places - Listening Places was commissioned by ArtEZ Studium Generale. Interviews, texts and voice overs by Sharon Stewart and Joep Christenhusz. It is produced by Ondercast for Studium Generale ArtEZ. Studium Generale curator for this series: Catelijne de Muijnck

In this episode of Radio ArtEZ, visual artist and master student Education in Arts Lobke Meekes and Mexican/Canadian researcher and curator Irene Urrutia explore our relationship to plants. How does a plant live and feel? What can we learn from plants? And how can experience, conversations, and art help us explore new ways of understanding and living in connection?
Inspired, want to know more? Then check in at their online workshop on April 22, on worldwide Earth Day.

Produced by Jozien Wijkhuijsfor Studium Generale ArtEZ.
Studium Generale curator for this episode: Mirjam Zegers
Tune: Daan van Haaren

In this episode of Radio ArtEZ, vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener offers background to her work and her ideas. She will focus on the unheard voices of statues, rooms, places. Who do monuments represent and who do they speak for?

She will introduce some original voices in philosophy and music that deserve more attention and will guide us into ideas of philosophers Fred Moten and Walter Benjamin about resistance and memory. Central to her conversation will be Benjamin's concept and practice of memory: Eingedenken, that takes remembrance as an act of responsibility. How do we choose to remember? History is written by the victors, said Benjamin, and the consequences resonate for ages.

Links:
https://www.elainemitchener.com/

Kitchen Table Conversation with Elaine Mitchener: https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/agenda/kitchen+table+conversation+with+elaine+mitchener/

Blog accompanying this episode: 
https://studiumgenerale.artez.nl/nl/studies/podcast/unheard+voices+podcast+with+elaine+mitchener/

Produced by Ondercast for Studium Generale ArtEZ.
Studium Generale curator for this episode: Mirjam Zegers
Tune: Daan van Haaren

Eventually I'd have to disappear
Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically.

Chapter four with Peggy Bouva and Maartje Duin.
Dieuwke goes to Pakhuis de Zwijger to talk to Peggy Bouva and Maartje Duin, who collectively worked on the podcast ´The plantation of our forefathers´. Their conversation is about their working process and the difficulties with the archive, and rewriting your history by seeing all perspectives and all narratives.
Also in this chapter: my own reveries on personal history and the gaps in it, and again, the amazing music of Warner Slump.

Credits
Music and sounds: Warner Slump; Keti Koti Memorial Day Zoetermeer: Pakhuis de Zwijger
Made possible by ArtEZ Studium Generale
Special thanks to Dennis Gaens and Joke Alkema

http://www.dieuwkeslump.com/

Eventually I'd have to disappear
Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically.

Chapter three with Fonge Frieling
Dieuwke talks to ArtEZ Theatre in Education- student Fonge Frieling, who is now the artistic director of the non-profit foundation TG Signum, on opening the archive of knowledge on deaf culture; her thoughts on living horizontally with the human and non-human; and she asked me some questions in return on my own archiving practises.
Also in this chapter: and as always, the amazing music of Warner Slump.

Credits
Music and sounds: Warner Slump; TG Signum (trailer for their play Asteria)
Made possible by ArtEZ Studium Generale
Special thanks to Dennis Gaens and Joke Alkema

http://www.dieuwkeslump.com/

Eventually I'd have to disappear
Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically.

Chapter two with Anna Schlooz
Dieuwke talks to ArtEZ Theatre in Education- graduate Anna Schlooz who is now studying Autonomous Art- Performance in Ghent about real-life maps; the body of documentation; and a rhizome as political tool for documenting your work.
Also in this chapter: skype lessons on documentation and the archive by Tina Madsen, and again, the amazing music of Warner Slump.

Credits
Music and sounds: Warner Slump; Anna Schlooz (trailer for her play Volg Mij)
Made possible by ArtEZ Studium Generale
Special thanks to Dennis Gaens and Joke Alkema

http://www.dieuwkeslump.com/

Eventually I'd have to disappear
Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists, and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically.

The next four weeks we will be bringing you a new mini-series, by an ArtEZ Alumna. Starting from her thesis 'In search of a non coherent narrative. From an oppressive archive towards an anarchive open for all voices, all narratives, all perspectives' Dieuwke Slump created a podcast titled 'Eventually I'd have to disappear. Podcast on the traces we leave behind as artists and how to work with them ethically, philosophically, artistically'. In every chapter of this podcast, Dieuwke invites a guest to join her and talk about their archive, and how they work with or against it. Dieuwke sees the chapters as small works of art, which she completes with sounds and voice-overs. She believes that in this time, it is important to take a look at our history and at how we remember it: which stories are told and which are forgotten, because this shapes our present and our future. How can we as artists deal with that in creative and radical ways? What can we contribute to this conversation, by being aware of our own archive and by making artistic interventions to create more space for different voices, narratives, perspectives?

Chapter one with Milo Rau
Dieuwke talks to the controversial artist, activist and artistic director of NT Gent about the difference between art and activism; the never-ending project of deconstruction; and theatre plays as traces of a revolution.
Also in this chapter: lessons in which 13-years-old learn how deep listening is a physical activity, and the amazing music of Warner Slump.

Credits
Music and sounds: Warner Slump; NTGent/Milo Rau (Orestes in Mosul)
Made possible by ArtEZ Studium Generale
Special thanks to Dennis Gaens and Joke Alkema
http://www.dieuwkeslump.com/