Listen Club #21: "Sound Sparks" Curated by Bethan Prosser
Schedule
Wed, 19 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
The Rose Hill | Brighton, EN
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Come join us for our next very apropos, community listening session with guest curator Bethan Prosser!“Listening is a broader capacity to attune and attend that supports processes of reflection and empathy, compassion and care, for oneself and for others, which may assist in contending with the systems around us.” (Brandon LaBelle, 2021: 15)
Sound sparks are ideas or thoughts sparked through listening. Field recording and soundscape compositions tend to be solo explorations - but in what ways can we listen with others to our surrounding environment, and what can we learn together?
Bethan will sonically share her journey in developing participatory listening research, through tracks that have inspired her, her own field recordings, and group compositions. Participatory listening research is a way of listening with others to the environment whilst embracing different listening experiences, practices, and positionalities. Her explorations include: academic research into the sonic experiences of urban seaside gentrification with residents, community groups, and local policymakers on the Sussex coast; and listening projects with Brighton & Hove Music for Connection with older people and community wellbeing groups across the Downs and urban fringe.
Through sharing these, she hopes to spark some thoughts about the relationship between environmental listening and a politics of listening - how listening together to our changing environment might help us listen better to each other.
Bethan Mathias Prosser strives to bring academic and practice-based listening approaches together to creatively understand issues of social justice and place. She has developed a Participatory Listening Research approach through doctoral and post-doctoral research. Her PhD used listening methods to investigate residential experiences of urban seaside gentrification and displacement injustices on the UK south coast. Alongside research, Bethan works with Brighton & Hove Music for Connection, the city’s specialist community music organization, developing Interactive Listening walks and music-making activities.
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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:
