Listening in Relation with Anju Singh's "The Audience" | Workshop Series

“The Audience” is a new project in development that will encourage participants to listen to, create, and respond to sounds created through a series of sonic experiments. In the session, we will explore mic’ing a space, objects, and participants in different ways to encourage amplification and listening of everyday or “ignorable” sounds. We will work with a few techniques to capture sounds which include using mics, application of electronics and sound resonators, and other ideas that we may emerge throughout the process. Listening and creating sounds are both crucial elements of the piece and as such all participants will be both listening to and creating sounds, navigating the relationship between them.

Anju experiments with texture, sound, images, and compositional structure in her practice and work as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, noise/sound artist, media artist, and curator. Her work engages in a practice of deconstruction and reanimation as process-based methods and plays with the application of contrasting themes and boundary/volume stressing experimental elements. As an interdisciplinary artist, she works in music, media arts, performance, theatre, film and opera. She has toured, presented and performed her work across Canada, in Europe, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and the United States.

• November 27

More dates/workshop leaders to be announced soon!

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

520 East 1st Avenue Vancouver, BC V5T 0H2

Integrated Motion Studio (IMS)

East entrance to Emily Carr campus, enter from Wilson Plaza

In this workshop, there will be a variety of listening and sound making methods and techniques which will be explored in an experimental way. Most of the sound making will be produced by the workshop participants. Some of the sounds may be emergent and unpredictable. There may be instances of loud and/or abrupt sounds from participants. Participants may be asked to move around the space, stand or sit in chairs.

About Listening in Relation

The Only Animal is teaming up with artist-activist, researcher and educator Julie Andreyev, alongside faculty and students at Emily Carr University and the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology, to explore how listening, sound-making and land-based material art practices can help foster care for more-than-human lifeworlds. You can join us in sound walks, improvisation workshops, a reading group, natural dye workshops and botanical printmaking, and more. Participating artists/facilitators include Rita Kompst, Toni-Leah C. Yake, Anju Singh, Adrian Avendaño, Lara Felsing and the Branching Songs Ensemble. Events are free and open to the public, but registration is required. If you would like to be added to a mailing list to receive updates on this program, please e-mail [email protected]

Listening in Relation is supported through: an Art + Design Mobilize: Creativity and Innovation for Partnered Research grant, ECU-RIO NSERC Mobilize; and The Basically Good Media Lab

Accessibility:

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If you have specific access needs or questions, we welcome your e-mails to [email protected]

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