collective listening sessions

with Johannes de Silentio

The SEC (Sesiones de Escucha Colectiva) are a space to experience deep listening from a physical dimension. More than just hearing, it is about collectively inhabiting the practice of listening as a tool for connection, reflection, and sensory exploration.

Guided by guest artists, each session offers sound journeys that invite attentive, immersive, and expanded perception of sound.

CLS arises from the desire to pause and share a moment of listening, expanding our perception of sound beyond the audible and generating a collective sound experience from the body.

In this first session, Johannes de Silentio will present a hypnotic and repetitive piece using sustained note techniques, typical of ambient drone practices. The work is titled If not, winter, inspired by Anne Carson's book in which the writer collects the only fragments of poems by the Greek musician and poet Sappho (630 BC).

bio

Johannes de Silentio is another alter ego of Ishak Benavides, composer, sound artist, DJ, and owner of TeslaFM.net radio, based in Barcelona.

He began his career 19 years ago as a laptop electronic music composer under the name Lucius Works Here, where he developed a harmonic and melodic facet in a line of experimental ambient, indietronic, and minimalism. However, his full entry into the world of sound art and more radical experimentation in 2016 led him to create another project that stood out from LWH, using different tools such as analog synthesizers, four tracks, pedals, samplers, and cassettes to advance live improvisation. He calls this project Johannes de Silentio.

Activity coordinated by Valentina Alvarado Matos and Carlos Vásquez.

SEC (Sesiones de Escucha Colectiva) is part of REBOST, a program line managed autonomously and collectively by the members of La Escocesa, who decide on the activities they want to organize in relation to the interests and needs of the group.

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