Bend your ear: a panel conversation on listening 

How might listening collaboratively, listening to the periphery, and opening ourselves to the invitation nested within failure and slippage offer other ways of navigating this moment together? Join sound scholar and dramaturg meLê Yamomo, composer and artist Lisa Conway, and composer/musician and dramaturg Christopher Willes in a rich overlapping conversation about their sound practices and research. The panelists will explore how mistakes can contribute to wilder art practices; how Deep Listening practices and collaborative scoremaking invite deeper attention to community; and how listening and sounding the periphery offer ways of being together differently. They will draw on their diverse practices—from decolonizing early sound archives, glitch, error, and troubleshooting, to the relationship of sound to place. Curated and moderated by Anna Bowen. The conversation will include an embodied exercise led by meLê Yamomo.

Live transcription will be provided for this event.