Bureau For Listening

About Laboratory for Listening at SPOR

Laboratory for Listening is a long-term exploration and manifestation project of Bureau for Listening in collaboration with SPOR Festival (2023-2025).

As a laboratory we will through the installation and its performative apparatus of the project investigate how to consider listening an artistic, critical and relational practice of its own. SPOR makes up an ideal testing ground for listening as a festival for contemporary music and sound art visited by diverse engaged listeners.

About Bureau for Listening

Bureau for Listening as a platform is committed to expanding, investigating and promoting listening from an artistic and activistic attunement - speculating into a critical explorative perspectives, as well as larger transformative societal structures. In short: Bureau for Listening believes in the potential of listening, and this Laboratory for Listening is an attempt to realize this potential.

The 2024 edition of Laboratory for Listening is supported by Statens Kunstfond.

Link to past Laboratories for Listening.

DAILY SCHEDULES

Thursday May 23rd

12-17

Open bureau

The bureau is open and invites you to engage with a series of listening manuals, services and installations within an environment for a possible office for listening. There will be a reading room with different resources on/for listening available. All of it is possible to access on your own.

A Place to Lay Down and Listen

A series of mattresses with beddings and headsets will invite you to simply lay down and listen. A series of different sound pieces and scores for laying down will be available. This piece might be set-up at different locations at Institute for X during the festival.

Friday May 24th

12-17

Open bureau

The bureau is open, and invites you to engage with a series of listening manuals, services and installations within an environment for a possible office for listening. There will be a reading room with different resources on/for listening available. All of it is possible to access on your own.

A Place to Lay Down and Listen

A series of mattresses with beddings and headsets will invite you to simply lay down and listen. A series of different sound pieces and scores for laying down will be available. This piece might be set-up at different locations at Institute for X during the festival.

13-15

Listening Counseling with Bureau Staff

Meet an employee of Bureau for Listening and optimize your listening.

14-15

Listen With... (A Listening Walk) (SPOR version)

Participate in a simple guided physical explorative listening session (aka Listening Walk), with a following sharing and workshop.

Saturday May 25th

10-16

Open bureau

The bureau is open, and invites you to engage with a series of listening manuals, services and installations within an environment for a possible office for listening. There will be a reading room with different resources on/for listening available. All of it is possible to access on your own.

A Place to Lay Down and Listen

A series of mattresses with beddings and headsets will invite you to simply lay down and listen. A series of different sound pieces and scores for laying down will be available. This piece might be set-up at different locations at Institute for X during the festival.

11-12

Silent Writing Workshop

Participate in an easy going creative and reflective silent writing workshop, facilitated by Bureau for Listening staff.

13-15

Listening Counseling with Bureau Staff

Meet an employee of Bureau for Listening and optimize your listening.

14-15

Listen With... (A Listening Walk) (SPOR version)

Participate in a simple guided physical explorative listening session (aka Listening Walk), with a following sharing and workshop.

Sunday May 26th

10-12

Listening Club

The Listening Club is a nomadic space and community, where we gather around the experience of listening to evoking sounds. It’s an attempt to continue to expand and re-experience what it means to listen – among others – in a sensuous, critically, empathic and artistic way. For this edition we will listen together to the Wasserorgel by Torben Laib. Torben will also join the session.

10-14

A Place to Lay Down and Listen

A series of mattresses with beddings and headsets will invite you to simply lay down and listen. A series of different sound pieces and scores for laying down will be available. This piece might be set-up at different locations at Institute for X during the festival.

LOCATION

Palmehaven, Institut for X / Havnefronten ved Poseidon

TIME

12.00 - 17.00 Thursday May 23. / Palmehaven, Institut for X

12.00 - 17.00 Friday May 24. / Palmehaven, Institut for X

10.00 - 16.00 Saturday May 25. / Palmehaven, Institut for X

10.00 - 12.00 Sunday May 26. / Havnefronten ved Poseidon

FREE ENTRANCE