How We Listen Determines What We Hear: Conversation
Event 15 August 2019
Event photograph from ‘How we listen determines what we hear,’ a conversation between Bhavisha Panchia and Josh Ginsburg, in A4’s Gallery. On the left, Panchia and Ginsburg are seated on the gallery floor. On the right, audio equipment installed for the ‘Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1’ exhibition.
Conversation: Bhavisha Panchia’s How We Listen Determines What We Hear, August 15, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
Title How We Listen Determines What We Hear: Conversation Dates 15 August 2019 Location Gallery Tagline A conversation about the curatorial process towards Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1. Credits

Speakers:
Bhavisha Panchia
Josh Ginsburg

Curator Bhavisha Panchia and A4's director Josh Ginsburg are in conversation to mark the end of the exhibition Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1. Panchia reflects on her research into sound and listening, the vinyl as a curatorial site as well as the politics of existing sound archives on the continent. The conversation asks after the ephemeral qualities and material evidence of sound. A listening session comprised of tracks chosen from the collection of Nothing to Commit Records brings the show to a close.

Installation photograph from the ‘Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1’ exhibition in A4’s Gallery. A closeup view of a listening station with a record player, headphones and cassette player.
Installation view: Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1 curated by Bhavisha Panchia, June 6, 2019–August 15, 2019. Image courtesy of A4 Arts Foundation.
  1. Andrew Pekler, Tristes Tropiques, Cool Symmetries / Ascending Vortices
  2. What is left of what had left, Lamin Fofana, Lampedusa
  3. Chino Amobi, Airport Music for Black Folk, Berlin
  4. Robin Rhode, Variants, Military Chair
  5. Robin Rhode, Variants, Piano Chair
  6. UCHRONIA, Field recording from alternate realities, Digital sampler, rhythm variation
  7. UCHRONIA, Field recording from alternate realities, Bambara affirmations, relaxation cassette
  8. Music from Saharan Cellphones Vol. 1, Group Anmataff – Tinariwen
  9. HAMA, Houmeissa, Touareg
  10. HAMA, Houmeissa, Terroir
  11. Xuxa Santamaria, ChuCha Santamaria y Usted, Fiebre Tropical
  12. Xuxa Santamaria, ChuCha Santamaria y Usted, Miami Lakes
  13. 1115: Post Europe, Gloom
  14. 1115: Post Europe, Calais 90210
Photographic ephemera from ‘How we listen determines what we hear,’ a conversation between Bhavisha Panchia and Josh Ginsburg, in A4’s Gallery. A handwritten radial diagram on paper considers the complexities of curating sound.
Ephemera: Sounding the Void, Imaging the Orchestra V.1 curated by Bhavisha Panchia, June 6, 2019–August 15, 2019.
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