Sounding Kinship: A Deep Listening and Live Ambient Rooftop Music Event
About this Event
Sounding Kinship: A Deep Listening Event
Join us for an immersive experience exploring the practice of deep listening—a transformative approach to engaging with our surroundings pioneered by composer Pauline Oliveros and extended through the ecological practices of kinship through Robin Wall Kimmerer, Ursula K LeGuinn, Audre Lorde, Sara Ahmed, and critical ecologist, Suzanne Pierre. Individuals who recognize the necessity of deeply presencing and questioning our environments-- the way we shape them and the way they shape us.
Before we can change the world we seek, we must attune ourselves to it.
This requires quantum listening.
Quantum listening is a listening practice as activism introduced to us by Pauline Oliveros .
Quantum listening, deep listening practices ask us to be our most present and expansive selves in order to witness courageously and vulnerably.
Sounding Kinship steps beyond an ambient performance and into the realm of listening meditations allowing the differentiation between performer and listener to blur. In so doing, we encouage one another to dismantle hierarchies of sound and appreciate both noise, ambience, conversation, laughter, and music alike.
Sounding Kinship invites participants to move beyond passive hearing into a state of active, conscious listening that recognizes our fundamental interconnectedness with all living beings. Through guided listening meditations, we'll practice what Oliveros called listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear extending our awareness to both the audible and inaudible vibrations that connect us to the more-than-human world.
The event will unfold in three parts:
First, we'll engage in a guided listening meditation walk that draw inspiration from Robin Wall Kimmerer's plant kinship making approach and ecological translations, exploring how listening can become a form of environmental literacy—learning to read the stories encoded in rustling leaves, flowing water, and urban soundscapes and taking inspiration from the lands at Atelier Gardens.
Next, immerse yourself in an ambient sound concert featuring both live and recorded sounds, where artists weave together environmental field recordings with responsive musical elements to create a sonic root system that highlights our kinship with the living world.
We'll conclude with a facilitated conversation on ecological sound practices and the ethics and politics of listening, sound, and noise as related to David Novak, and examining how Suzanne Pierre's Critical Ecology Lab's interdisciplinary approach can help us question how sonic relationships reflect broader ecological and social interconnections at the magical cafe of Atelier Gardens.
Whether you're a sound artist, environmental enthusiast, or simply curious about deepening your relationship with the world around you, Sounding Kinship offers tools for cultivating presence, attention, and connection in an increasingly distracted world.
No prior experience necessary—just bring your curiosity and openness to transforming how you listen to the world and others.
Agenda
🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Deep Listening Meditations and Meditation Walk
Host: Arlo Tomecek
🕑: 07:00 PM - 07:30 PM
Grab a delicious tea or drink at the Cafe
🕑: 07:30 PM - 09:00 PM
Ambient Concerts
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
EUR 0.00 to EUR 22.49
