Listen Club
Location
The Rose Hill
70-71 Rose Hill Terrace
Brighton
BN1 4JJ
Date & time
Monthly on Tuesday evenings from 19:00-20:30
Next Listen Club dates in 2024:
April 10
May 15
June 12
July 12
FREE but please book a ticket
Listen Club #11
13/03/2024
Olivia Louvel curated a listening session inspired by:
Dogger/Ice LAND
of tectonic plates, shifting
of sea and land
of visions reconfigured.
The session featured tracks from her latest release, doggerLANDscape, and from her participation in Acoustic Cameras, a project which invites sound artists to annex the real-time flow of webcams located in various places around the world, in this instance, Iceland.
| We Are One Land (2023) | Olivia Louvel | 3:40 |
| When The Sea Will Rise II (2016) | The Digital Intervention | 7:54 |
| Water. It Must Be (2014) | Paul Kendall | 4:08 |
| Sonata I (1946-48) | John Cage | 2:50 |
| Madwoman’s Vision (1989) | Meredith Monk | 7:44 |
| Submerged (2009) | Jana Winderen | 6:35 |
| Doggerland DNA (2023) | Olivia Louvel | 4:41 |
| Sonata III (1946-48) | John Cage | 2:32 |
Listen Club #10
27/02/2024
Chris Sciacca and Kersten Glandien presented a survey of Radio Aporee, Maps of Sounds of the World and a selection of live audio streams from Locus Sonus.Listen Club #9
23/01/2024
What happens when we listen to the interwoven elements of sound in film: music, sound effects, dialogue, and location recordings, apart from the visual scenes they imbue? Chris Sciacca guides us through a miasma of film sound for an evening of theatre of the mind.
| Film | Scene Description | Duration |
| Baraka (1992) Ron Fricke | Bali Kekac Song | 6:10 |
| Stalker (1979) Andrei Tarkovsky | Escaping into the Zone via railway cart | 9:06 |
| Blue (1993) Derek Jarman | excerpt | 3:48 |
| Blowout (1981) Brian DePalma | Opening Sequence into sound studio | 4:18 |
| Berberian Sound Studio (2012) Peter Strickland | Gilderoy dissolves into film | 6:26 |
| The Witch (2015) Robert Eggers | Black Phillip Speaks | 2:48 |
| Leviathan (2012) Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel | Selected edits Speaks | 7:42 |
| Sweetgrass (2009) Lucien Castaing-Taylor | Cowboy swears at sheep | 3:02 |
Listen Club #8
19/12/2023
This was our first Listen Club to feature an old-school, full length album playback.
Guest curated by artist Ring Modulator, we listened to the entire length of Brian Eno’s Ambient 4: On Land with a speaker set up detailed by Eno himself.
It featured a novel third Ambisonic/Hafler Circuit Speak System in a triangle formation by switching the positive and negative polarities from the rear speaker.
| Ambient 4: On Land (1982) | Brian Eno | 44:35 |
Listen Club #7
14/11/2023
Simon Emmerson on ‘Sound-Space-Place’.
| First stereo recording (1933) | Alan Blumlein | 2:00 |
| The Wizard of Oz unmasked (1939) | 1:00 | |
| Whalesong recordings mix (1970) | Roger Payne | 4:30 |
| Kits Beach Soundwalk (1989) | Hildegard Westerkamp | 9:42 |
| Roaratorio (1979) | John Cage | extr. 5:35 |
| I am sitting in a room (1969/80) | Alvin Lucier | extr. indeterminate |
| Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980) | Jonathan Harvey | 9:10 |
| Near and Far (at Once) (2022) | Simon Emmerson | 13:00 |
Composer, performer and writer Simon Emmerson has worked in sound and music made with technology for around 50 years. He has worked with instruments and live electronics as well as studio ‘tape music’. He writes: “The exploration and celebration of the spaces around us takes many forms. Sound and music can have the magical quality of taking us somewhere else. We can experience so many different spaces and places – some outside, some inside our heads; some close, some distant … and maybe even surreal or impossible.”
Listen Club #6
10/10/2023
Under the title Sound Works by Sound Artists Kersten Glandien digs into the sound tracks of spatial installations, sculptures, urban environments, custom-built instruments, performative
art sound art and projection art – and ponders the nature of compositions made to relate to
architecture, infrastructure, specific locations and spatial creations designed to be
experienced by a moving audience.
| Six Mirrors (Sechs Spiegel), Ludwigskirche Saarbrücken (1995) | Christina Kubisch | 10:00 |
| Your Favourite London Sound: Brixton Station (1998–2001) | Peter Cusack | 1:54 |
| Dukatenscheißer (2009) | Douglas Henderson | 3:00 |
| Your Favourite London Sound: Slamming Train Doors at Victoria Station (1998–2001) | Peter Cusack | 1:41 |
| Guitar Drag (1999) | Christian Marclay | 4:00 |
| Sonambients (1915-1978): October 12,1969 AM | Harry Bertoia | 5:00 |
| Your Favourite London Sound: Brick Lane (1998–2001) | Peter Cusack | 1:54 |
| Doggerland Channels (2022) | Olivia Louvel | 5:00 |
| Your Favourite London Sound: Nightingale & Substation (1998–2001) | Peter Cusack | 1:26 |
| 2 Aolian Harps pt.1 (1980) | Max Eastley | 5:03 |
Listen Club #5
12/09/2023
Pioneers of Electronic Music. Chris Sciacca chose a hypnotic blend of the originators of electronic music inspired by the documentary film Sisters with Transistors. The pieces range from modular synth polyrhythms, musique concrète with field recordings, ambient spoken-word dream sequences, and a classic horror soundtrack.
| A Sonic Womb (2019) | Suzanne Ciani | 8:53 |
| Second Breath | Suzanne Ciani | 9:05 |
| Pulse Persephone (1965) | Daphne Oram | 4:07 |
| The Dreams – Falling (1964) | Delia Derbyshire | 8:45 |
| Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind (1980) | Rocky Mountains | 3:04 |
| Patchwork (1980) | Laurie Spiegel | 9:47 |
Listen Club #4
20/06/2023
Chris Cutler chose an exciting programme of hybrid music and soundworks in which normally distinct languages or conventions are brought together in unexpected ways. Take a chance to rewire your synapses.
| I | ||
| Owen Springs Reserve (2014) | Hollis Taylor | 6:19 |
| Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-56) | Karlheinz Stockhausen | 13.08 |
| Three Bear Rooms (1996) | Chris Cutler | 4.44 |
| II | ||
| Agost (1976) | Musica Urbana | 6:54 |
| There and back Again (2006 – extract) | Chris Cutler | 12.42 |
| Farewell Party (2002) | Lloyd Green | 3.44 |
Listen Club #3
31/05/2023
Hosted by Chris Sciacca and presenting sound art, soundscapes and music compositions inspired by birds. Tracks include the earliest known recording on wax cylinder, extinct species, experimental analogue taper music, diverse field recordings, and a recording from inside the Laurenskerk in Rotterdam.
| Field Recordings and Location Sound | ||
| White-rumped Sham (1889) | Ludwig Koch | 1:04 |
| Gramophone matrix 7444r. Song of a nightingale (1910) | Karl Reich | 4.32 |
| The Fox and the Nightingal edit (2023) | Hazel Reeves | 2.54 |
| Explanation and Courting Song (1966) | Halaoff & Peter Bruce | 2.32 |
| Dawn with the white storks (2016) | Izabela Dłużyk | 6.16 |
| Electroacoustic composition and experimentation | ||
| Kauai O’o (2009) | Robert Davis | 1:25 |
| Syrinx (1979) | Ann McMilan | 4.38 |
| Slow Motion Blackbird (1994) | Chris Hughs | 5.47 |
| Musical Composition | ||
| Abîme des oiseaux (Abyss of the birds) – Messiaen, 202 | Julien Hervé | 8:39 |
| 0.2 (2004) | Evan Parker with Birds | 8.29 |
Listen Club #2
11/04/2023
Curated by Al Strachan, this Listen Club focused on uses of the human voice in sound poetry and music.
| Meditations 3 and 3-2 | Propan | 4:04 |
| Zwevingen | Greta Monach | 7.14 |
| Long May I Sleeppppp | Xuan Ye and Chik White | 1.45 |
| Heavy | Audrey Chen | 2.32 |
| Early Morning Melody | Meredith Monk | 1.36 |
| Hot Tarmax | Ecka Mordecai | 2.32 |
| The Park | Robert Ashley | 21:36 |
Listen Club #1
14/03/2023
| Music for Quiet Spaces | Robin Minard | 15:46 |
| Ol-Olool-Ol | Chris Watson | 18:07 |
| OP 622526 | AGF & Porya Hatami | 6:34 |
| Lemon Grass | Chicago Underground Duo | 1:40 |