Research sharing - showing at AdK

"Listening to your listening"

What does (your) silence sound like (today)?

"I hear a soft piano melody. 

The sound of a balloon squeaking in my thighs. 

A dark pine forest.

A jazz band in my chest. 
I hear a chicken, loud and clear, in my forehead

and a trumpet resonating in my nose - it sounds hilarious in here!

I hear Mozart mixed with the sound of rain. 

Silent bells in the distance. 

I hear candy popping in my elbows. 

Drums clashing inside my hips. 

The memory of the sound of stones I used to throw down a pipe as a child."

During the past months we have been exploring together the idea of listening as an intentional act of connection: to oneself, to others, to space, to sensations, memories, thoughts...

If sound is vibration and vibrations are waves of movement constantly affecting our bodies-beings, listening can take place through our skins as well as through our ears, as long as we give it our attention. In this sense, we have welcomed expressions from musical and sound language to name both what we explored through movement and through sound, with a specific attention towards the voice as a continuation of and a support for movement. What can we learn from our voices during a crescendo in our hips?

We have practiced different settings to invite acute attentiveness as a performative state, making space for an embodied intuitive listening or for « what is already (t)here » to take shape and expression through movement and sound. These explorations have led us to create improvisational frames based on different approaches to listening/sensing and sounding/moving that we will share with you in the form of shorter or longer pieces.

Listen

Listen again

Listen closely

Listen with me

Listen through me

Listen to us

Listen together

Alongside

Imagine

Remember

Listen

Listen deeper

Listen beyond

A research project imagined and facilitated by Pol Pi with the collaboration of:

Han Yu

Elias Bohn

Mona Hartel

Sofia Attolini

rieke nanninga

Nils Beck

Svea July

Eli Vardzhiyska

Nasia Pliakogianni 

Gunnar Örn Stephensen

Marie Leese

Jamila Somboo

Cheng-Jung Tsai

Bauka