Wikifoon

What is listening art?

• Listening art
• Text
• Beginner
• aifoon

When does listening become an artistic act? (English)

Sound art in Flanders

• Listening art
• Video
• Text
• Beginner
• extern

A video and text by Flanders Arts Institute on the history and players of Flemish sound art. (English)

Letter to the city

• Acoustic ecology
• Text
• Beginner
• aifoon

A spontaneous application to become a city composer (Dutch)

About sound and language

• Semantics
• DIY-tool
• Teachers
• Beginner
• aifoon

How can you describe sounds with words? Check out the results of our participatory research. (Dutch)

About listening attitudes

• Listening art
• Text
• Beginner
• aifoon

A group of artists was stimulated by the diverse ways of listening. So they decided to compile a list of possible listening postures. (English)

On sound and memories

• Listening art
• Text
• Beginner
• aifoon

What did the past sound like? Which sounds have or will disappear? And how can we preserve them? (Dutch)

Create a sound walk

• Soundwalking
• Video
• DIY-tool
• Teachers
• Children
• Beginner
• aifoon

Take someone out for a walk blindfolded and let them experience the city in a different way. (Dutch)

Massage with sound

• Listening art
• DIY-tool
• Text
• Teachers
• Children
• Beginner
• aifoon

Relax and let your listening be stretched by a beauty of sounds... (Dutch)

This square is designed to sound good too

• Acoustic ecology
• Text
• Intermediate
• extern

Can we design cities to be pleasant to our ears? An interview with sound professor Marcel Cobussen. (Dutch)

Why sounds and smells are as vital to cities as the sights

• Acoustic ecology
• Text
• Intermediate
• extern

An article by MIT Technology Review on the importance of sound in a city. (English)

5 ways to listen better

• Deep listening
• Listening art
• Video
• Beginner
• extern

Fascinating TED talk by sound expert Julian Treasure with 5 exercises to listen more consciously. (English)

Listening questions by Pauline Oliveros

• Deep listening
• DIY-tool
• Text
• Beginner
• extern

40 questions that open up your way of listening, formulated by the founder of deep listening. (English)

Improve the acoustics of your classroom

• Acoustics
• DIY-tool
• Teachers
• Children
• Beginner
• aifoon

Poor acoustics negatively affect children's concentration, and cause voice problems for teachers. (Dutch)

Listening at home

• Deep listening
• Listening art
• DIY-tool
• Text
• Beginner
• extern

DIY home expeditions full of listening exercises. (English)

Growing in listening

• Deep listening
• Listening art
• DIY-tool
• Podcast/playlist
• Teachers
• Children
• Beginner
• aifoon

A toolbox of audio clips and accompanying listening questions. (English)

From what theoretical framework does aifoon's work start?

• Listening art
• Text
• Intermediate
• aifoon

By what theories are aifoon's methods inspired? (Dutch)

Sonorising: making a soundtrack to a film clip

• Listening art
• DIY-tool
• Teachers
• Beginner
• aifoon

Roadmap for teachers, tutors or workshop facilitators. (Dutch)

Field recording: go out on your own with a recording device

• Deep listening
• Listening art
• DIY-tool
• Text
• Beginner
• aifoon

Field recording is not just about recording sounds, but also what you do with them. (Dutch)

The sound collage: roadmap to create your own soundscape

• Listening art
• DIY-tool
• Text
• Teachers
• Beginner
• aifoon

Guide a group to make their own recordings and use them to create their own soundscape or soundscape. (Dutch)

What did the city sound like during corona?

• Acoustic ecology
• Podcast/playlist
• Beginner
• aifoon

"I expected it to be super quiet, but nothing could be further from the truth." (Dutch)

A fountain to mask city noise

• Acoustic ecology
• Text
• Beginner
• aifoon

Adding extra sound to make an auditory environment more pleasant - how does it work? (Dutch)

A plea for a listening city

• aifoon

How can we design cities that account for auditory factors in their urban planning? How do people experience the sounds of a city? (English)

Hoor, de paprika ontkiemt

Hoe aifoon al vijftien jaar luisteren verheft tot (een) kunst. Een interview van Evelyne Coussens met Stijn Dickel. (Dutch)

Lesmap bij Murmur van Grensgeval en aifoon

• Beginner
• aifoon

Deze map biedt suggesties voor activiteiten in de klas vóór- of nadat
jullie naar de voorstelling Murmur komen kijken. (Dutch)

Van participatieve dialoog tot artistieke ontwikkeling (en omgekeerd)

• aifoon

Geen luisterkunst zonder deelnemers of toehoorders. (Dutch)

What is listening?

• Beginner
• aifoon

Listening has more layers than we might think. What about the distinction between ‘hearing’ and ‘listening’? How does our own personal context and culture influence things? (English)

Listening scores

• Deep listening
• Listening art
• Text
• Children
• Teachers
• Beginner
• Intermediate
• Expert
• aifoon

Stijn Dickel made three listening scores for The Listening Bureau. Read and ... Listen!

Drawing or sculpting sounds

• Listening art
• DIY-tool
• Children
• Teachers
• Beginner
• Intermediate

Listening inspires and amazes! Work together through sound with a colouring box or lump of clay.

Podcast ‘Luisterrijk’

• Podcast/playlist
• Beginner
• aifoon

aifoon onderzoekt het luisteren in de stad en daarbuiten. Om ons onderzoek breder te kaderen, maakten we een podcast. (Dutch)

Educatieve fiche Geluidenatlas

• DIY-tool
• Beginner

Wanneer je probeert om een geluid in woorden te beschrijven, merk je al snel dat we daar (te) weinig woordenschat voor hebben. Ga in groep op zoek naar taal voor geluid!

Podcast: if sounds could speak...

• Semantics
• Podcast/playlist
• Children
• Teachers
• Beginner
• Intermediate

When you try to describe a sound in words, you quickly notice that we have (too) little vocabulary to do so. Why is that? But most importantly, what can we do about it?