listening over-hearing composing

Over-hearing points the way for a consideration of not so much what is in front, but rather next to. It is my interest to embrace this noise, this over-here, and understand it as a special kind of acoustic, and something to add to how we perceive and understand sounds around us.

I would venture to say that the ‘over-here’ is the horizon of every sound. It is the promise that every sound makes: to say – ‘here, I am over here’.

LaBelle Brandon, On the overheraad in: Mieszkowski, Sylvia, Sigrid Nieberle, und Innokentij Kreknin. Unlaute : Noise/Geräusch in Kultur, Medien und Wissenschaften seit 1900. Bielefeld: transcript, 2017. Print.

Es gibt etwas, was ich auch gerne mache. Bewusst, z.B.

an der Limmat entlangzugehen, an einem Sonntag, wenn es viele Menschen hat, und mich auf das Auditive zu konzentrieren. Und die Gesprächsfetzen aneinander zu reihen und wirken zu lassen.

Pfade am Uetliberg mit Margaretha

Collect sounds in your mind that you have overheard through the week.

Repeat them in your mind in different orders one afternoon.

Ono, Yōko, et al. Grapefruit : A Book of Instructions + Drawings = Grapefruit : En Instruktionsbok + Teckningar. Bakhåll, 2001

listening over-hearing composing

I would venture to say that the ‘over-here’ is the horizon of every sound. It is the promise that every sound makes: to say – ‘here, I am over here’.

an der Limmat entlangzugehen, an einem Sonntag, wenn es viele Menschen hat, und mich auf das Auditive zu konzentrieren. Und die Gesprächsfetzen aneinander zu reihen und wirken zu lassen.

Collect sounds in your mind that you have overheard through the week.Repeat them in your mind in different orders one afternoon.

Collect sounds in your mind that you have overheard through the week.

Repeat them in your mind in different orders one afternoon.