Salomé Voegelin - The Art of Listening by Muntpunt

This talk by Salomé Voegelin explores the aesthetic and political possibility of listening to audible and inaudible sound.
For starters, let’s consider how listening grants us access to invisible slices of the world and discuss how that which is heard offers a different point of view, an alternative perspective on how things are, thus producing fresh ideas on how things could be and how we could live in a sonically possible world. Through listening to audible works of art and musical pieces, we go on to contemplate how these invisible sonic slices of possibility also hint at other, as yet inaudible and thus impossible sounds: that which might also be heard but which for physiological, ideological, social and political reasons, as well as certain considerations of taste and preference, we cannot or do not want to hear. We will discuss the inaudible not in opposition to the audible but as an extension of its audibility: what else might be heard if only we had the ability, will and wherewithal to hear it; and we will consider its inaudibility as an aesthetic and a political impossibility: at once challenging aesthetic norms and conventions and questioning the limits of a political reality.