Re-Imagine Europe is pleased to present the second pilot study publication:
Listening Together – Collective Engagement in Sonic Acts’ Listening Room at Zone2Source and Online Radio by Hannah Pezzack.

In February 2024, Sonic Acts launched The Listening Room at the arts venue Zone Source in Amsterdam, and the online radio radio.sonicacts.com to showcase multichannel sound works. Both projects were initiated as part of the Sonic Acts Biennial 2024 The Spell of the Sensuous– an intensive art, theory, and technology gathering motivated by changes in the ecological, political, technological, and social landscape. Both the online radio channel and the physical listening room were an experiment in attentive listening, and presented an embodied, ecological approach to sound.

In this article Hannah Pezzack links these projects to the history of listening situations, referring amongst others Pauline Oliveros’ deep listening, and reflects on the outcomes of the audience research that was conducted amongst the audience of the Listening Room and radio.sonicacts.com. She argues that audiences resonated with the embodied, ecological approach to sound, and that attentive listening is not only highly valued by listeners, but seen as essential to mental well-being.