time: 09.08.23, 12 – 6 pm
GRUND (space): barn + surroundings
GRUND (reason): awareness to listening, sound walk, improvisation choir
title: Yoga Nidra + „Raung Jagat“
texts:
Andra McCartney, „How am I to Listen to You?“ Soundwalking, Intimacy, and Improvised Listening, in: Negotiated Moments : Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice, hg.: Gillian Siddall, Duke University Press, 2016; Wendelin Küpers, Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.
workshop concept: Vanja Dabić (+ Rully Shabara)
group: Vanja, Marianna, Eugenio, Ingrid, Giulia, Jasmin, Carina, Andjelina, Mane, Brigitte
Workshop
Raung Jagat
quotes
“I think the practice of listening over time, with many repetitions that pay attention to variation, is an important aspect of loving a person or place, involving deep levels of care and attention” (McCartney, Pg. 50)
“it is important to provide the greatest possible variety of conversational groupings and the luxury of extended time and a relaxed setting, if the aim is intimacy and improvisation in conversation” (McCartney, Pg. 50)
“The possibility of difference keeps ears open for change”
“intimate listening is neither purely about contemplation nor about mastery – it is very much an in-between place, about touching and being touched, resonating, while realizing that that moment of touching is ephemeral and partial, ungraspable in totality. The motion of love is neither the stillness of contemplation nor the strong grasp of mastery, but like walking is a combination of forward propulsive will and falling, repeated endlessly with shifting rhythms. In all of these senses, the omnipresence of intimate risk without security or sovereignty, the necessity for openness and flexibility in a world that is not sealed, an emphasis on listening in the moment, this seems like an ideal situation for open improvisational listening” (McCartney, Pg. 52)
„leave space for moments of productive confusion and other surprises…”
material
Vanja Dabić
is a pianist from Belgrade, Serbia. In her musical practice, she explores the wide variety of musical forms, from dense repetitions of organs to the echoing soundscapes, often times seemingly void of a tonal base. In her works she mainly uses keyboard instruments, but also several traditional instruments played in an unorthodox way. She performed actively as a member of the Tse-tse Fly Middle East Collective (DBX), Kino Pleme (SRB), and often collaborates with artists who treat sound as a vehicle for exploration and spiritual connection to both the outer space and inner worlds.
literature
Andra McCartney, „How am I to Listen to You?“ Soundwalking, Intimacy, and Improvised Listening, in: Negotiated Moments : Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice, hg.: Gillian Siddall, Duke University Press, 2016
Wendelin Küpers, Phenomenology of the Embodied Organization, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.
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