Join us to celebrate the launch of Listening Glossary edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch and published by Spiral House, a new imprint of Silver Press.

The evening brings together 10 researchers and practitioners for a series of short contributions that form a live glossary. Each brings a term from the glossary to life through a reading and sonic offering. Moving between voices, sonic worlds and listening methods, the evening creates a constellation of possibilities for what listening might be.

Hannah Kemp-Welch will also be in conversation with Bodies of Sound co-editor Irene Revell, reflecting on the ideas and practices gathered in Listening Glossary.

The book brings together more than two hundred terms from art, ecology, activism, psychology, education and philosophy, spanning nine decades of thinking about listening as a way of relating to others, environments and structures of power. Its entries invite us to listen through another’s ears and from specific perspectives, encountering forms of listening that range from the non-cochlear to the interspecies. Together, they reveal listening as a critical method for understanding and transforming the worlds we inhabit.

The evening is hosted by Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP), in collaboration with Silver Press. Listening Glossary will be available to purchase on the night.

PROGRAMME:

7pm - doors

8pm - Hannah Kemp-Welch reads an extract from Listening Glossary

8.10 - Sonic offerings from five book contributors:
Lucia Farinati - collective listening
Alice Eldridge - eco listening
Eleanor McDowall - etheric listening
Suri Jiang - fragmented listening
Miriam Elgon - haptic listening

8.40 - Break, books for sale

9pm - Hannah Kemp-Welch in conversation with Bodies of Sound co-editor Irene Revell

9.30 - Sonic offerings from five book contributors:
Annie Goh - non-innocent listening
Moushumi Bhowmik - slow listening
Luigi Monteanni - supernatural listening
Hector MacInnes - turbulent listening
Sasha Engelmann - weather listening

10pm - End of programme; drinks and conversation continue.