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The art of listening

Olga Neuwirth, Michel Khalifa

Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth’s new work Le Encantadas has been called a pure listening experience. Likewise, Simon McBurney’s The Encounter is a performance which uses sound to capture the imagination. But what constitutes a listening experience? How does a concert or music theatre performance trigger the imagination and create a physical experience? Artists and academics discuss these questions and Olga Neuwirth explains her working methods on this evening at the Festival centre.

Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth’s new work Le Encantadas has been called a pure listening experience. Likewise, Simon McBurney’s The Encounter is a performance which uses sound to capture the imagination. But what constitutes a listening experience? How does a concert or music theatre performance trigger the imagination and create a physical experience? Artists and academics discuss these questions and Olga Neuwirth explains her working methods on this evening at the Festival centre.

Michel Khalifa in conversation with Olga Neuwirth

 

Jutta Toelle (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, department of music): Listening to the Listener

 

Maarten Beirens (University of Amsterdam): Happy New Ears: a brief history of listening and contemporary music

 

Round Table with Olga Neuwirth, Henkjan Honing, Jutta Toelle, Maarten Beirens and Julia Kursell, moderated by Michel Khalifa

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dates

Tue June 14 2016 8:00 PM

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  • English

  • Duration of performance unknown

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speakers Olga Neuwirth, Michel Khalifa, Jutta Toelle, Maarten Beirens, Julia Kursell, Henkjan Honing moderator Michel Khalifa co organised by Universiteit van Amsterdam

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