shut up and listen!

Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art LET’S READY! Echoraum, Vienna; December 7th-9th, 2017 „The proof of the music is in the listening“. 2017 marks the centennial celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain — a welcome occasion for the twelfth edition of shut up and listen! to focus on current artistic approaches towards the phenomenon ‘ready-made’. Thinking about ready-made in a sound-related context suggests a focus on the listening process itself, thus field recordings and other ‚concrete‘ hearing perspectives come to mind instantaneously. At the same time, object-oriented aspects of auditory perception — process-related or continuous sound developments, audio-sculptural manifestations and the sound qualities of everyday objects — are in the center of attention. Read more…