The Listening Biennial, AVTO, İstanbul
2025
18 hour sound event with 27 global and 14 local artists
27 uluslararası ve 14 lokal sanatçının katılımıyla 18 saatlik bir ses etkinliği
My contribution to the listening program was a 23 minute 46 second sound piece made for this occassion. The track patches together readings of excerpts from my texts published over the years on Byproduct* - my newsletter on Substack. While the pre-written material forms the basis of the soundwork, the speaker (I) intervenes occassionally to talk in a non-scriptive, improvised manner and comments upon the scripted text as if to layer a reflection across time and context. We hear an omnipresent soundscape of construction work, at once disturbing and enabling the spoken words. The track eventually becomes a self-fulfilled prophecy as the speaker comes up with the idea of becoming an ASMR content creator for crying, to then going through something personal on the recording day that actually made her cry.
︎︎︎ Listen here
“Sounds near one another influence each other. Listeners near one another affect or influence with active listening.”
“Quantum Listening simultaneously creates and changes what is perceived. The perceiver and the perceived co-create through the listening effect. All sounds are included in the field. This created potential, cultivates surprises, opens the imagination and approaches and even plunges over the edges of perception into the mystery of the universe predicted by quantum field theory.”