November Music is holding an evening to stimulate, pique and delight the ears. At the intersection of sound, community spirit and history, Vietnamese-English artist Cường Minh Bá Phạm (b. 1988) creates contemporary sound experiences. Cường was a participatant at the 2023 Sounds Now Curating Course and selected more recently through an open call from SN partners SPOR and Ultima, where young curators were invited to propose new concepts.
Cường Minh Bá Phạm presents here a special listening session and concert, taking visitors into his musical world and thinking. His “The Listening Choir” is a three-part participatory listening workshop in which he lets participants hear three versions of The Heart Chant by Pauline Oliveros. The American composer was a pioneer of Deep Listening, fusing a concentrated listening attitude with meditative music. From this experience, Cường introduces participants to his own work, Entangled Audibilities.
In his work, Cường Minh Bá Phạm is interested in learning (and unlearning) our understanding of history, community, movement, family, sound, language, memory, and how these can inform, challenge or be influenced by power, knowledge and/or subjectivity.
After a short break, Rotterdam-based duo Animistic Beliefs will perform. Since 2018, Mar Lalihatu and Linh Luu have been making heaven-defying electronic music under the name Animistic Beliefs. Their name refers to the animistic belief in which animals, plants, natural phenomena and objects are animated. During their electrifying performances, Animistic Beliefs creates an entirely personal, occult sound world. In the process, they tinker with flowing melodies and create new cathedrals of sound, experimenting with textures and effortlessly navigating from meditative to manic, destructive to danceable in the blink of an eye.
More info on the November Music website
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