A Minor Listening Experiment

For anyone who has struggled to keep their focus when listening to beautiful music, this performance offers an opportunity to leave your seat and experience listening outside the box. We hope that this choreography for listening can provide tools to engage the senses in deep and transformative modes of observation and relation. Listening, as a key to understanding, is essential for both compassion and intentional transformation. Music will act as an exceptional medium for expanding, heightening, and investigating one’s perceptive capacities and for improving one’s skill of observation. In creating a space that is at once revelatory and participatory, the performance aims to foster the conditions for music to build new pathways in the mind, helping us arrive at new ideas and social relations, to build a new society.

For those interested in experimenting with different ways of listening to music and reimagining the relationship between artist and audience, we invite you to take part in A Minor Listening Experiment. This immersive in-home concert will provide audience members with a set of tools, prompts, and invitations to deepen listening skills and broaden the social opportunities that arise when we experience music together.

The program duration is 1 hour. We ask that attendees stay for an additional 15 minutes following the performance to provide feedback on their experience.

This event follows A Massive Listening Experiment, which took place in April at Pioneer Works, and engaged 300+ audience members in this listening choreography. It is part of an ongoing practice by the Choreographies for Survival working group.

This event is BYOB, and the suggested donation to participate is $10.

What's the music?

Phil Goldenberg Classical Guitar

Attendees

Robin N.

Monica M.

Gia

Linda T.

Tommaso O.

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Anthony K.

+1

Michal J.

Benjamin D.