What is listening art?
- Listening art
- Text
- Beginner
- aifoon
When does listening become an artistic act? (English)
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Aifoon has gathered a wealth of knowledge and insights about sound and listening, which we’re excited to share with you through Wikifoon – our knowledge base.
Here, you’ll find articles that delve into concepts like listening art and listening postures, along with practical tools and exercises you can try yourself. Use the tags to quickly find what you’re looking for.
Wikifoon is a work in progress and is continuously growing and evolving. At the moment, some essays are still in Dutch. We're working on having them translated.
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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?
Een koffer vol geluid!
- Luisterkunst
- Participatie
- DIY-tool
- Kinderen
- Leerkrachten
- Beginner
- Intermediair
- Gevorderd
- aifoon
De geluidenkoffer is een verzameling alledaagse objecten waar je geen muziek, maar betoverende geluiden mee maakt. Zodra je de koffer openklapt, ontvouwt zich een wereld aan nieuwsgierigheid, enthousiasme en experiment.