The Listening Academy Berlin 2024 – Audio Mix

September 5, 2024
Golnoosh Heshmati /
Collective Listening Session with Rabt space (Tehran)

In this listening session, we connected online with Rabt space in Tehran. Established in 2020, Rabt is a roaming curatorial studio that focuses on artistic research, particularly in sound and sonic arts. Participants from the newly founded School of Sonic Arts in Tehran joined us for this session, which was facilitated by Maryam Katan and Shaahin Peymani.

Over the past year, in collaboration with the Khamoosh—a transdisciplinary community dedicated to preserving and archiving Iranian sonic heritage—several spaces have come together at Rabt, both offline and online, serving as a bridge to imagine new ways of convening and engaging around sound.

Following this edition of The Listening Academy’s focus on listening as an emergent strategy, participants were invited to share: “A sound that made them aware of their body’s relationship to their surrounding space or locale. This could be a sound that evokes feelings of sharing, coexisting, or perhaps a sense of disconnection from the environment.” An audio mix was composed of the sounds including/contributed by:

Farah Kassem

Heidi Hart

Maryam Katan & Shaahin Peymani

Pedram Karimi

Sedākhāne

Stijn Dickel

Woven Sounds (A film by Mehdi Aminian)

Yulia Carolin Kothe