Deep Listening Study Circle
Facilitated by Ludwig Berger
Tuesdays: 13/02/2024 – 12/03/2024
6pm – 8pm
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Sunday: 10/03/2024 (outdoor location)
10 am – 12:30 am
Workshop format: 2-hour guided session
Language of instruction: English
Registration at capacity
We will practice Deep Listening after the composer Pauline Oliveros, exploring listening through different forms of movement, sound, and dreaming.
The exercises include movement and breathing exercises, sonic meditations, listening questions, improvisations and sharing experiences.
Our sessions will mainly take place indoors, in case of good weather or for shorter periods also outdoors.
All are welcome, no specific experience or skills are required.
“Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing.“
– Pauline Oliveros
Ludwig Berger is a landscape sound artist and educator, based in Montreal and Switzerland. In his compositions, installations and performances, he enables intimate and playful sonic encounters with plants, animals, buildings and geological entities. In his musical work, Berger produces sonic eco-fictions with processed and synthetic sounds. He studied electroacoustic composition at the University of Music Weimar. As a sound researcher and teacher at the Institute for Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich from 2015-2022, Ludwig studied the sonic dimension of Japanese gardens, alpine glaciers and urban landscapes. He has composed sound and music for award-winning films and theatre pieces and curates the landscape sound festival “Sonic Topologies” in Zurich and the experimental music label Vertical Music. His work has been presented at the Venice Biennale, Akousma Festival GRM Paris and ZKM Karlsruhe, and awarded with an Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica.
