3/3: What did you discover? 💬 Share your discoveries below. Listening belongs to us all. #ListeningDiscoveries #TeachTheWorldToListen
Dame Evelyn Glennie
@dameevelynglennie.bsky.social
Solo percussionist, composer, founder of The Evelyn Glennie Foundation and The Evelyn Glennie Collection, and host of The Evelyn Glennie Podcast. https://linktr.ee/dameevelynglennie
2/3: For just a few minutes, let your attention be guided by the sounds around you. Follow your curiosity. Notice what draws you in. Pay attention to layers of sound you might normally overlook...
1/3: This week's invitation: Take a 15-minute sound walk. Let sound guide your attention, rather than your destination. What do you discover? We often move through places with a destination in mind. A sound walk invites us to do something different...
1/3: "As a profoundly deaf person, I'm often asked how I could become a professional musician... " — Dame Evelyn Glennie
1/2 It’s good to get stuck into composing and recording with Dan Jones for series 2 of Mammoth Screen’s Code of Silence for ITV Studios. We had a really productive couple of days, developing the material we created for series 1...
1/3 This week's invitation: Pay attention to pauses, silences and moments of reflection in conversation. What do they communicate?
1/3 Welcome to the first in our new series, Listening Discoveries. This week's invitation is a simple one: Ask someone an open question and give them your full attention.
1/3 "When we move beyond silence, we start to see deafness not as a limitation but as a unique and valuable perspective." - Dame Evelyn Glennie
4/4 There are no right answers and no single way to take part. Simply bring your curiosity and discover what listening means to you. #ListeningDiscoveries #TeachTheWorldToListen
3/4 That's why we're launching Listening Discoveries: weekly invitations to explore listening in all its forms and develop your own listening practice. Some discoveries may involve sound. Others may involve touch, movement, observation, reflection, creativity or connection.
2/4 In a noisy, distracted and often divided world, listening offers a different way of paying attention: to ourselves, to one another and to the world around us.
1/4 What does listening mean to you? At The Evelyn Glennie Foundation, we believe listening belongs to all of us. It is not owned by those who can hear, nor confined to language or volume. It is a creative, empathetic and deeply human act.
Hearing health is essential for musicians 👂🎵 Join @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social and Dr Finola Ryan for a practical session on protecting your hearing and supporting your long-term wellbeing. 📅 Wed 28 Sep ⏰ 10:30am 💻 Free & online @ukbapam.bsky.social Sign up: www.rsmgb.org/whats-on/hea...
1/3 What a lovely change to have a harp grace the practise studio yesterday! It was wonderful to have the first rehearsal of ReConnection, a new commission for Harp and Percussion, composed by Jill Jarman. Catrin Finch and I will give the world premiere of this piece at...
1/3 The piano has been a staple diet of mine since the age of 8. It was a joint first study along with percussion at the Royal Academy of Music, London and remains a crucial instrument for when I’m composing.
1/2 Last week’s heatwave encouraged us to take our creative experiments outside, as we explored a few initial ideas for a duo Kashaka piece, aptly called ‘Clicking Music’, accompanied by the sounds of nature.
These wonderful instruments can teach us a lot about listening - but what does listening mean to you? You have until 19 June to take part in our amazing project Ways of Listening, whether you’re a musician, a poet, a writer, a filmmaker, a photographer or an artist. citiesandmemory.com/listening/
Ways of Listening - Cities & Memory | Field recordings, sound map, sound art
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How did fence posts end up being played at the Olympics opening ceremony? @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social talks us through the story of the wonderful aluphone, and how it encourages us to think of sound as a food diet.
1/2 I am hugely moved by the creative vision that gave rise to this project, conceived by the remarkable Teatr Damier. To witness the arc of a life’s philosophy reimagined through the language of theatre is both humbling and deeply meaningful.
Whether you’re a poet, a painter, a photographer, a film maker, a writer, a dancer, a musician or a sound recordist, we want YOUR creative responses to the question “what does listening mean to you?” www.citiesandmemory.com/listening
Ways of Listening - Cities & Memory | Field recordings, sound map, sound art
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Just 1️⃣ month left to enter your submission to Ways of Listening ❤️🎧 Here, Evelyn and Stuart talk about the amazing submissions we’ve already received (many of which are on display at City Lit) and why we’re so excited about where this project might take the conversation about listening:
Our Ways of Listening project with The Evelyn Glennie Foundation: is open for YOUR creative interpretations of listening until 19 June: citiesandmemory.com/listening/
Ways of Listening - Cities & Memory | Field recordings, sound map, sound art
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What can the incredible frame gong teach us about how to listen better in our everyday lives? @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social and Stuart from talk about how this amazing instrument responds best to subtlety and curiosity - and how we can apply those principles to listening to other people.
One never knows when or how music will be used. This film footage has taken the performance of a live improvised concert that Fred Frith and I did many years ago. How much I learnt from Fred through the memorable times we collaborated together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0_i...
Evelyn Glennie & Fred Frith live + Greed (1924)
YouTube video by antonio schiano
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During Deaf Awareness week, I've been reflecting on listening beyond sound: "If there is one thing I have learned, it is this: listening is a choice." You can read the full blog post on my website now: www.evelyn.co.uk/listening-be...
Cities and Memory@citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 6mo agoHere’s a special message from @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social, as there are now just TWO MONTHS left to take part in our project Ways of Listening. Over the past few months, with so many submissions already sent in, Ways of Listening has grown into something rich, surprising, and deeply human.
Cities and Memory@citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨 Two months to go! 🚨 You have until 19 June to answer one simple question - what does listening mean to you? Ways of Listening - a partnership between with @dameevelynglennie.bsky.social - is a global callout for artists to create a conversation around listening. citiesandmemory.com/listening/
1/2 I’m thrilled to be heading to the BBC Proms stage this summer where I’ll be joining Conductor Tom Fetherstonhaugh with Fantasia Orchestra and the BBC Singers at the @royalalberthall.bsky.social for a Late Night Prom on Tuesday 11th August.
