Recycled Listening
Performance for Klanglandshaften Festival 2022, Brandenburg DE

Improvisation with Haesoo Jung, Genesis Perezneriz, and Vilte Gustyte
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The physical space at Hobrechtsfelde has changed several times and gone through
different transformations and identity shifts. Hobrechtsfelde has the feeling of a
recycled space of land. The land and space also has the essence of several
processes of transformation all involving human influence. I am interested in
interpreting this in a performance of the recordings I took at Hobrechtsfelde, as a
recycled way of listening. The listening recycling begins with my recording as the
listening process, the performer's interpretation of the recording, and the choice
of my recording to interpret as the curated listening. I will have several performers
listening to my recordings and interpreting them in the way that they listen by
using the human voice as the medium of interpretation.
This human vocal interpretation of the Hobrechtsfelde space interests me because
of the curated nature in the space and human influence. I am interested in taking
recordings of the space and interpreting the recordings of the highway, wind,
birds, frogs, etc and using the human voice to interpret these sounds as a
performance of the experience of listening to the space.
I would like to not rehearse and practice on our own so that our listening
interpretations do not influence each other before the initial performance. This is
important to me because the piece is more about the listener’s own interpretation
of the recording, and their projected listening experience.
