World Listening Day 2017: Marcos Fernandes, Yoichi Kamimura, Yoshiko Mitsui, Carl Stone, more

World Listening Day 2017 • Listening to the Ground

Marcos Fernandes, 上村洋一, 三ツ井嘉子, 岡田晴夫, 笹島裕樹, 清水博志, Carl Stone, 津田貴司, 梅沢英樹

16:00~22:00 • Soundwalk: 無料 / Performance: ¥2000

World Listening Day 2017

a global community event

Every year in July, people around the globe gather to celebrate World Listening Day. This year the Tokyo Phonographers Union presents World Listening Day 2017  in the Noge area of Yokohama on the theme of Listening to the Ground. To date, The Tokyo Phonographers Union has held the event at Shibuya 20202 Gallery, Zenpukuji Park/Youkobo Art Space, Setagaya Monozukuti School, Sakura WORKS Kannai, The Forum Setagaya, Art Baboo in Yokohama Chinatown and the Schneider Residence in Kiyosumi Shirakawa.

Now in its 8th year, the event will be held in and around Noge and Zart, a community-based visual and performing arts space.. One pays little attention to the existence of “sound” in our daily lives yet we are being continuously surrounded and influenced by it. We encourage you to take this opportunity to open your ears and rediscover the sounds that fill our daily lives.

World Listening Day 2017 includes a Soundwalk, Listening Session and Performance.

World Listening Day is co-organized by the World Listening Project (WLP) and the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology (MSAE). July 18 was chosen because it is the birthday of Canadian writer, educator, philosopher, visual artist, and composer R. Murray Schafer. His effort leading the World Soundscape Project and his seminal book, 'The Tuning of the World', inspired global interest in a new field of research and practice known as Acoustic Ecology.

Contact: Marcos Fernandes at listen@soundingthespace.com or 090-8643-1662

Performers:

Marcos Fernandes

www.soundingthespace.com

Yoichi Kamimura

www.yoichikamimura.com

Yoshiko Mitsui

Haruo Okada　

http://pioneer.jp/soundlab/

Hiroki Sasajima

Hiroshi Shimizu

http://hiroshi-shimizu.tumblr.com/

Carl Stone

www.sukothai.com

Takashi Tsuda

http://hoflisound.exblog.jp/

Hideki Umezawa

http://soundcloud.com/hideki-umezawa

Soundwalk:

16:00 Experience the soundscape of Noge its environs with members of the Tokyo Phonographers Union. We will walk for about an hour so please wear comfortable shoes. Meet at Yokohama Zart at 15:45. Participation is free.

Listening Session:

17:00 The soundwalk will be followed by a Listening Session at Zart where we will share and listen to sounds. Participants are encouraged to bring their own field recordings (audio files, CDs, recorders, iPhones). There will be a break at 18:00.

19:00 A performance utilizing ice water and hydrophones by Hideki Umezawa and Yoichi Kamimura will be followed by a soundscape improvisation by the Tokyo Phonographers Union and a set by Still Life.

* Space is limited so we encourage you to make reservations by emailing your request to listen@soundingthespace.com. Please make “7/16 WLD” your subject and include your name, phone number, and desired program (Soundwalk, Listening Session, Performance). We will notify you when we reach full capacity on this page. 

Links:

World Listening Project

www.worldlisteningproject.org

Tokyo Phonographers Union 

www.soundingthespace.com/english/tpu/index.html

Global Sounds

pioneer.jp/corp/crdl_design/soundlab/globalsounds/