To hear on Sunday 5, 12, 19, 26 May 2019, 2pm - 9pm:
some listening-exercises
(2019, Premiere)
by Rilo Chmielorz, Berlin
and Anna Homler, Los Angeles
Curator, loudspeaker installation: Knut Remond
Rilo Chmielorz on 'do not listen with half an ear":
It is such a nice paradox: "Listening with half an ear!" There doesn´t exist half an ear. There is one ear or there are two ears. The linguistic paradox refers to an inattentive listening. An inattentive listening doesn´t fit at all to SOUNDACTIVISM. The OHRENHOCH-KIDS are right in telling us: "Hearing is work." Here comes the idea up of creating several miniatures - something like "listening-exercises " - titled:
DO NOT LISTEN WITH HALF AN EAR
It is an ironic, laconic lecture focusing feedbacks and parasites coming out of my acoustic casket and analogue sounds from the time when the reproducibility of sound was a new technical achievement such as a transistor-radio, catching the radio-waves flying all around us, and a phonograph. The latter one plays only "mono" - with „half an ear“ (?).
"Hearing is work" - we should practise. In times of media-overflow and discursive erosion our ears should be cleansed and our eardrums should have a massage. This is mainly the duty of the parasites and feedbacks - they are the masters of acoustic massage.
I sent some sound-pieces to Los Angeles. Anna Homler reacted on them:
Toys and voice were coming back from L.A. - and Anna wrote:
„In this project, one of sonic exchange, I tried to converse with Rilo's sounds.
Her soundscapes were very particular and I wanted to respond with very specific
sounds that created complement or contrast. This sound world is very
inviting to me and I hope others will enjoy it, too“.
And I wonder if Anna is telling us a fairytaile in a strange ancient, indigenous language of the hare, which denied to prick up his ears ….
There is no starting point and no end. The process is going on. Just like soundactivism.
An ongoing loop at „ear level“.
(Thanks to the OHRENHOCH-Kids Benjamin and Aila for their collaboration)
Rilo Chmielorz
is a multi-media-artist based in Berlin - working in the field of radio-art, soundart-compositions, radio-features and radio-theater as well as writing.
In 2002 she obtained the Production Award of the radio WDR, studio for acoustic arts within German Sound Art Award. Public and private collections include her work. She has presented countless individual exhibitions, concert/performances, and sound installations in galleries, museums and international music- and soundart-festivals in Europe, Mexico, Cuba and Hongkong.
Anna Homler and Rilo Chmielorz performed together in several occasions in Cologne in 2000 and 2002 at Joachim Zöpfs „WERFT“.
Anna Homler
is a vocal, visual and performance artist based in Los Angeles. She has performed and exhibited her work in venues around the world. With a sensibility that is both ancient and post-modern, Homler sings in an improvised melodic language. Her work explores alternative means of communication and the poetics of ordinary things. She creates perceptual interventions by using language as music and objects as instruments.
Website Anna Homler