Fox Friday: Sound and Environment

Deep Listening is a practice developed by the great American composer and artist Pauline Oliveros. Her method assumes that listening is the prerequisite of composing. In this workshop the participants will listen intently and record sounds of nature as well as other ambient sounds, using specialized sound recorders and headphones. Those recordings will be then brought into software (open source) to create sound art works in collaboration with nature. Each participant will receive a digital file with their work. No experience in sound art or music is necessary. Participants should being a laptop to the workshop.

Instructor: Monika Weiss is a professor of art and an affiliate professor of performing arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Born and educated in Warsaw, Poland, Weiss is an internationally known visual artist and sound composer whose interdisciplinary practice evokes ancient rituals of lamentation as a poetic response to environmental and societal trauma. She creates sound/music, movement performance, drawings, film/videos, and sculptures. Monika Weiss studio is based in New York City, where she arrived in 2001 as an artist in residence at the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since 2023 she has been part of The Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art.