On the occasion of the first Week of Sound in Beirut, the AUB Neighborhood Initiative is pleased to invite people to Hyper-listening : praxis, a workshop by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay on (urban) sound and listening.
Studio Laban, Zico House, Rooftop, Beirut, Spears
May 11, Saturday, 4-7pm
Hyper-listening: praxis is a series of workshops that operates as a set of exercises and collaborative experiments involving the methodology of “hyper-listening” that intends to explore the transcendental aspect of listening and engaged learning about the surrounding environment by a production of subjectivity. The participants are asked to locate certain sites that trigger multitude of associative thoughts, imaginations and/or personal memories emerging as a response to being in an immersive environment of contemporary urban life. The participants are guided to utilize these auditory associations helping them engage independently, inclusively and contemplatively with their environment. The outcomes are presented in a collective setting.
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is a media artist and researcher, with a PhD in artistic research and sound studies from ACPA, Leiden University, Netherlands. He is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Arts and Humanities, American University of Beirut.
Web : http://budhaditya.org/