Pause and contemplate: our Listening Room as a listening ritual
A constant for Proyectos Públicos is to generate spaces for disconnection and connection. Every Monday, at General Prim, one of our venues located in Colonia Juárez, we open a room dedicated to almost meditative listening: our Listening Room.
More than a listening room, this room is an installation: an acoustically intervened environment designed from scratch by xpanone of the members of our creative community. Under his musical curatorship, vinyl albums from our collection are played here. From songs like Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinéad O'Connor to pieces created by collaborators such as Harchathe listening sessions are a musical experience that is lived as an immersive, almost ritualistic act.
In a context where music is produced, distributed and consumed at accelerated speeds, and listening to an entire album is often reduced to short playlists, in this space, we offer a pause. A way to be present.
Salomé VoegelinSwiss theorist of sound, points out that sound cannot be offered as an object, but as an experience; it cannot be framed or pointed out, only inhabited. To listen, then, is not simply to hear, but to become involved. A way of being.
Listening, not as a physiological fact but as an act of engaging with the world. - Listening to Noise and Silence, 2010
In a constant saturation of stimuli, we invite you through this experience to rediscover the power of listening and to open yourself to new ways of connecting and reconnecting. This collaborative project is just a sample of the potential of shared spaces to propose other forms of cooperation, language and perception.
For registration times and links to the Listening Roomkeep an eye on our Instagram stories: @proyectospublicos
