The Listening Museum
Vanessa Tomlinson
The Listening Museum was a site-specific investigation of sound in a multi-layered participatory journey through space and time. The concept arose from the desire to format a music-making event that centred around an inclusive notion of listening; complete with all its component parts of intentional sound, unintentional sound, functional sound, sound produced for aesthetic reasons, alongside merging value systems, hierarchies, and even responsibilities as the audience themselves became sound-making participants. The site for the one-night museum was Urban Art Projects, a factory for making large-scale public art, and the stakeholders – artisans from the factory, sound makers, the installation makers, the audience, performers, composers – all came to participate in the event with different expectations, and different notions of boundaries or responsibilities.
The Listening Music took place at Urban Art Projects, April 26th, 2013.
It was curated by Vanessa Tomlinson and produced by Clocked Out with partners Ensemble Offspring and UAP.
It was curated by Vanessa Tomlinson and produced by Clocked Out with partners Ensemble Offspring and UAP.
