Joseph Puglia heeft binnen het lectoraat Music, Education and Society onderzoek gedaan naar het werk van Pauline Oliveros. In zijn onderzoek richt hij zich op de manier waarop we geluid horen en interpreteren, en de interactie die mensen hebben door samen te luisteren in een live concertsetting. Dit concert, uitgevoerd door de Ensemble Academy in samenwerking met de afdeling Art of Sound, laat zien hoe we betekenis creëren in muziek. Op het programma staan vijf nieuwe werken van studenten Compositie van het Koninklijk Conservatorium, samen met baanbrekende werken van Oliveros, John Luther Adams, James Tenney, Cornelius Cardew en Milton Babbitt.

Programme

15.30 - 17.00h: Deep Listening workshop with Sharon Stewart (Studio 4)

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding – making sounds.” Pauline Oliveros

In the last century and the beginning of this one, composer and writer Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) undertook a lifelong listening journey. From early explorations with portable tape recorders, within the Electronic Music Studios of the 60s and beyond, in educational institutes, with the ♀Ensemble, through Sonic Meditations, and with all those who have been willing to step into the unknown through workshops or retreats.
Deep Listening® is a creative practice involving listening in as many ways possible, discovering your listening habits, and sharing listening and sounding experiences with community. The practice also actively plays with hierarchies that separate composers from performers from audience. Deep Listening is based on the radical idea that everyone can participate in sonic experiences and that everyone can create a score for listening and sounding.

Sharon will facilitate a Deep Listening Workshop before this concert to enliven our senses and offer the opportunity to engage with communal listening practices and scores that have inspired so many to return to the magic of listening.

Sharon Stewart attended three 5-day retreats with PO, IONE and Heloise Gold (2008-2010), was certified in Deep Listening in 2010, and was invited to become a core teacher for the Center for Deep Listening in 2015.

17.30 uur: Concert (Conservatoriumzaal)

Prelude to Meditation – J. Cage (prepared piano)
The Tuning Meditation – P. Oliveros (open score)
Melismata – M. Babbitt (solo violin)
Koan for solo violin – J. Tenney (solo violin)
Having Never Written a Note for Percussion – J. Tenney (open score, percussion)
The Light Within – H.L. Adams (vl, vlc, alto fl, bass cl, pf, perc, electr)
Treatise (excerpt) – C. Cardew (open graphic score)