Embodied Music Club (SOUND SCENE 2023)

How does music emerge after the end of ableism, audism, visualism, and colonizing & authoritarian music practices? Through Embodied Music Club, visitors will experience tactile, aural, and visual music-making. This work is an invitation to activate the whole body as a listening tool, center the body in music-making, and champion empathetic-inclusive experiences that situate music in shared listening and complex interspecies relationships.

Instructions: Participate in this fun, cozy participatory performance regardless of your bodily and musical ability. Grab a seat (or stand if you’d like). Enjoy reading the tactile graphic scores/notations through touch and interpret the scores using any instrument (for example, voice or sign language) in any manner. There is no right or wrong in reading and interpreting the scores. More detailed instructions are delivered in the performance. Registration is encouraged but not required.

This workshop /performance is a part of Sound Scene Fest 2023 "After the End.". For a full schedule of interactive audio installations, workshops and performances visit www.soundscenefest.org

Jay Afrisando is an Indonesian artist and researcher working on aural diversity, acoustic ecology, and cultural identity through multisensory and antidisciplinary practices. His works include the film installation In Which to Trust? (2022) and the spatial composition Ungklang-Angklung (2019). An award-winning artist, he has presented his multifaceted works at various scenes and places globally through collaborations with various artists and culture bearers.

Scores printed by Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired.

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