Composing is constructing layers, textures and spaces in sound and the level of nuances is endless. How ‘deep’ is a composer listening to these sounds in a creational process? Can we, as listeners, approach this depth of fields and if not, does it really matter? Or is each very act of listening a compositional tool in itself? We start off our studio symposium with a listening session to a tape piece from our studio resident Huba de Graaff. Her work celebrates the unheard: whether it’s the singing of monkeys, the moans of eroticism or the tired sighs of an officer after acts of genocide. For Huba de Graaff, who has studied sonology and tape composition with Gilius van Bergeyk and Dick Raaijmakers, creating music starts at listening to unheard sounds, voices and spaces next to us. Together with Het Concreet, Huba joins us for a week-long residency. This afternoon, we will listen to the results.

JOIN
april 7, 15:00-18:00h
Het Concreet
free entrance, r.s.v.p.