Listen Club #20: Sonic Thinking through Waste with Chris Sciacca
Schedule
Wed, 15 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
The Rose Hill | Brighton, EN
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Come join us for Listen Club #20; Sonic Thinking through Waste, curated by sound recordist and researcher, Chris Sciacca. “Wherever we live, we must realize that when we sweep things out of our lives and throw them away ... they don’t ever disappear, as we might like to believe. We must know that “away” is in fact a place.” Jim Puckett, director of The Basel Action Network (BAN)
Electronic waste is one of the fastest growing waste-streams in the world. A recent headline from the Guardian claims that Half a Billion Cheap Electrical Items go to UK Landfills in a Year. This includes the technology surrounding sound recording and playback, such as microphones, speakers, recorders, headphones, hard drives, and an assortment of cables and peripherals, of which there is no circular economy. Join Chris as he curates the sounds of waste, with excerpts from his own research, including the pulsing soundscape of incineration, deep engines of global cargo ships, landfill, and screeching metal recycling, in part through microphones made from household waste and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE). These microphones have been simply constructed from Styrofoam, outdated desktop speakers, PET4 and 5 plastics and steel, and used wires and connectors. They each imbue the compositions with their own unique material character. It is the act of using waste to audition sites of waste.
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Listen Club is about listening together is in the same space, with the possibility of sharing impressions and casual discussion afterwards. Listen Club hopes to provide a counterpoint to the quick paced personal consumption of music with a more patient shared experience; a deep listen, together, in order to foster community.
A programme of unusual sound-works, soundscape composition, and music from the present and the past, is chosen by Sound Art Brighton artists and invited guests. Curators will guide the experience - briefly discussing the details of the selections and providing background on the music and artists chosen. We aim to present a variety of styles and listening experiences that may include long duration singular sound works to a series of work on a particular theme.
On average we will listen together for 45min to an hour, with time for discussion and conversation afterwards.
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Where is it happening?
The Rose Hill, 73 Rose Hill Terrace, Brighton, BN1 4JL, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
