Listening Wall - Goldsmiths Research Online

Item Type:	Project
Creators:	Garrelfs, Iris
Abstract or Description:	The Listening Wall is a wall of curated scores for listening and sound related instruction scores. LISTEN… In 1966, sound art pioneer Max Neuhaus stamped the word “LISTEN” onto the hands of participating audiences and took them on a walk around Manhatten, listening to industrial rumblings, buzzings of Puerto Rican street life and lastly, a percussion performance. It marked his transition from percussionist to sound artist (although of course at the time the term was not yet used). At the same time, we live in divisive times, and walls are units of separations. Say, like a wall of silence for example. Or indeed the Great Walls of China / Mexico. This one is not like that. Because when we listen, we can’t fail to connect. Now [meta-score]: Take one of the scores provided here. Listen with it to this environment. Or make some sound yourself in tune with your chosen score, say, kicking a wall or a stone. When’ you’re done, feel free to add your own listening suggestions on the back and tack it onto the wall. Or take one home with you and do it later.
Official URL:	http://irisgarrelfs.com/listening-wall
Related items in GRO:	Garrelfs, Iris. 2018. "Listening Wall" at QSS Gallery, Belfast 2018. In: "The Listening Wall at QSS Gallery Belfast", QSS Gallery, Belfast, United Kingdom. [Show/Exhibition] Garrelfs, Iris. 2018. 'The Listening Wall: A journey into scored listening'. In: t Sonorities Symposium 2018: Techno–Human Encounters. SARC, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom. [Conference or Workshop Item] Garrelfs, Iris. 2017. '"ListeningWall" at Points Of Listening#37, London College of Communication, October 2017'. In: Points Of Listening#37, London College of Communication, October 2017. London College of Communication, London, United Kingdom. [Conference or Workshop Item] Garrelfs, Iris. 2017. "Listening Wall" at Supernormal Festival 2017. In: "Supernormal Festival", Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. [Show/Exhibition] Garrelfs, Iris. 2017. Listening Wall at Chinese Open, London, 2017. In: "Chinese Open, London", Q Park, London, United Kingdom. [Show/Exhibition] Garrelfs, Iris. 2017. Listening Wall at Linear Obsessional Festival 2017. In: "Linear Obsessional Festival", ArtsCafe, Manor Park, London, United Kingdom. [Show/Exhibition] Garrelfs, Iris. 2019. The Listening Wall, at Musikkens Hus, Aalborg, Denmark. In: "of 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology –RE:SOUND", Musikkens Hus, Aalborg, Denmark, Denmark. [Show/Exhibition] Garrelfs, Iris. 2020. 'Virtual Listening Wall for the Royal Musical Association´s 56th Annual Conference'. In: Royal Musical Association 56th Annual Conference. Online, United Kingdom 8 – 10 September 2020. [Conference or Workshop Item] Garrelfs, Iris and Emler, Katrin. 2021. "The Listening Wall" at Polymedialer Ponyhof, PERFORMANCE Berlin, Germany. In: ""The Listening Wall"", Polymedialer Ponyhof, Berlin, Germany, Germany, 12 November 2021. [Performance] Garrelfs, Iris. 2024. The Listening Wall at Distrito 350 Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico. In: "The Listening Wall", Distrito 350 Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico, 13 - 19 April 2024. [Show/Exhibition] Garrelfs, Iris and Corringham, Viv. 2024. Viv Corringham and Iris Garrelfs live. In: "The Listening Wall", Distrito 350 Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico, 13 April 2024. [Performance] Garrelfs, Iris. 2017. Scores for Listening. [Composition] Garrelfs, Iris. 2024. Scores for Listening #8: How does one blade of grass sound. In: Stephanie Loveless, ed. A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros. Newark: Terra Nova Press. ISBN 9781949597349 [Book Section] Garrelfs, Iris. 2023. Scores for Listening #5: What does yellow sound like?. In: "A Year of Deep Listening", Online, United States. [Show/Exhibition]
Keywords:	installation, listening, environment, text scores, Iris Garrelfs
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Music > Unit for Sound Practice Research
Project or Series:	Listening Wall
Item ID:	24872
Date Deposited:	30 Oct 2018 14:04
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2024 13:43
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24872

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Project

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Abstract or Description:

The Listening Wall is a wall of curated scores for listening and sound related instruction scores.

LISTEN…
In 1966, sound art pioneer Max Neuhaus stamped the word “LISTEN” onto the hands of participating audiences and took them on a walk around Manhatten, listening to industrial rumblings, buzzings of Puerto Rican street life and lastly, a percussion performance. It marked his transition from percussionist to sound artist (although of course at the time the term was not yet used).
At the same time, we live in divisive times, and walls are units of separations. Say, like a wall of silence for example. Or indeed the Great Walls of China / Mexico. This one is not like that. Because when we listen, we can’t fail to connect.

Now [meta-score]:

Take one of the scores provided here. Listen with it to this environment. Or make some sound yourself in tune with your chosen score, say, kicking a wall or a stone. When’ you’re done, feel free to add your own listening suggestions on the back and tack it onto the wall. Or take one home with you and do it later.

Official URL:

http://irisgarrelfs.com/listening-wall