Deep Listening
Deep listening workshop in the open field in the Páramo de la Rusia, Colombia 2013.
Workshops and sound artists:
Alfonso Pretelt.
Julian Benavides.
The initiative arises together with the questioning of deep listening in hostile territories, crossed by precariousness, as a result of armed conflicts and forced displacement, vestiges of the war in Colombia that face new spaces with their memory dragged on. A wounded and deafened memory in the noise of the bullets. One of the main objectives is to heal the cultural wound that is deepening in the country through deep, conscious listening and the relationship with the environment through sound.
This process was carried out in the rural school of the Russian Páramo in January 2013. Here some children record and reproduce the sounds of the countryside, birds and other animals with a highly relevant auditory fidelity, we proposed to deepen their awareness of This is his particular listening, among other dynamics, to recreate and compose stories with this material.