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Eva Matsigkou PhD Candidate, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
listening, experimental music, intersectional feminism, histories, margins
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In this presentation I will argue that listening practices of experimental music and sound art, such as soundwalks and the realization of listening scores (Corringham n.d., Oliveros 2013), as well as ways of documenting these experiences (through recordings, notes, ethnographic texts, etc), can create ways of connecting with others and of being within the sonic spaces in a critical manner (Woodland 2023). I suggest that listening processes have the potential of being embodied, multi-sensory experiences that can activate our intersectional, critical thinking and amplify aspects of life to which we do not have access through in the dominant ways of experiencing them. Often, they can lead us to reflect on subjects of positionality and privilege, as well as aspects of urban life and on societal, political, and environmental developments (Voegelin 2014). Through sonic exploration and listening emerges a layered relationship with our surroundings. We can ask ourselves which are the places that are welcoming to us, or where we experience alienation or lack of safety. Where is it that we feel heard, and where are we excluded? Furthermore, the documentation of such listening experiences can create a space in which the participants can reflect on how they want to narrate (sonic) stories and lived experiences, how they wish to be heard, especially when coming from suppressed or marginalized experiences, from which position they speak and how they know the things they know (Haraway 2019).
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Eva Matsigkou is a musician, musicologist and a PhD candidate at the School of Music Studies, AUTH. Her work examines the notion of listening as it appears in experimental music and sound art in the late 20th century, and in historiographical practices such as oral history and ethnography. More specifically, she investigates creative practices like soundwalks, field recordings and listening scores and she employs similar practices in current research, together with interviewing, (co)listening and embodied and on-site research. As an artist she develops intermedia work beginning from sound, but also encompassing performance, writing and video. She also delivers listening based workshops and has worked extensively in the documentation of contemporary sound art practice in collaboration with Syros Sound Meetings. She is a founding member of I broke the vase, a feminist performance duo which has been active for the past 5 years. She has been a resident artist at Syros Sound Meetings, Vovousa Festival, and the School of Music, Theatre and Dance of the University of Michigan. Since 2019, she is a member of the Critical Music Histories (CMH) study group.