ARGOS, centre for Art & Media, Brussels, presents:
WAYS OF HEARING
Over the past decades a new sound culture has developed. A rich
culture of musicians, composers and listeners has emerged who apply
themselves to the research of sound matter, recording and
transmission, and particularly to the act and experience of listening
itself. This culture gradually is superseding the predominance of the
visual within art history and theory, is becoming more aware of its
traditions, relevance and potential as a cultural signifier. The
proliferation of ‘sound art’ as a legitimate field within
contemporary art and the cultivation of such innovators as John Cage
and Pierre Schaeffer to an almost mythical status are but the tip of
the iceberg. Ultimately technological evolutions have set off a
democratization of sound, liberated from both the rigidity of Western
harmonic system and the popular music’s market -oriented thinking,
throwing us back upon our own ears. These previously unknown forms of
aural literacy, performance and memory have induced new affinities
and alliances, beyond traditions and genres, beyond the distinction
between original and copy, music and noise, amateur and professional,
high and low culture. These practices are not bound by aesthetic or
conceptual questions, but rather by a tendency to destabilize the
norm and to challenge ruling ideas about sound and music, hearing and
seeing, absence and presence. Ways of Hearing navigates, through
numerous performances and lectures, through this whimsical landscape
of sound.
Thu 04.10.2007 20:30 CONCERT Charles Curtis plays Eliane Radigue /
Lucio Capece + Mika Vainio (Co-production with QO-2)
We 17.10.2007 20:30 LECTURE David Toop: Ways of Hearing, Resisting
the Visual
Thu 18.10.2007 20:30 CONCERT Asmus Tietchens + Thomas Köner, John
Duncan, CM von Hausswolff (Co-production with Metaphon)
Thu 25.10.2007 20:30 Tetuzi Akiyama + Jozef van Wissem / Mattin +
Junko + Michel Henritzi (Co-production with (K-RAA-K)3)
This and much more in the context of the OPEN ARCHIVE #1 festival at
ARGOS (29.09.07 - 10.11.07).
Event program composed by Stoffel Debuysere.
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