Listen Club #22: Sound Atmospheres with Jean Martin

Name: Listen Club #22: Sound Atmospheres with Jean Martin
Start: 2025-03-19T19:00:00+00:00
Location: The Rose Hill

Schedule

Wed, 19 Mar, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Rose Hill | Brighton, EN

Come join us for another engaging community Listen Club with Jean Martin as he guides us through a selection of works entitled, Sound Atmospheres! Jean writes:

Sound affects us – when we listen. We all feel it, yet find it difficult to articulate, what these feelings are. The idea of atmosphere helps focussing on the in-betweenness of these feelings: triggered by sound yet residing in the perceiving body and the sense-making mind. Whether it is composed music or environmental soundscapes, our ears are open to hear. How do we listen and what happens while we are listening? I will use the idea of atmosphere as the link between these diverse sonic shapes. Atmosphere originally relates to the air surrounding the earth and to weather phenomena. It can be applied to sound, which has also an immersive quality. Even to humour, which I will explore in the second part of the evening.

Jean Martin has composed music and created sound for various purposes, including live performance. He has written about film sound and music in a book, in articles and produced programmes on contemporary art music for German Public Radio.
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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.