Celebrating Creativity in London’s Creativity & Wellbeing Week
Creative adventures in listening to London from secret locations.
What does it mean to listen to the buildings, listen to the neighbourhood, listen to the surroundings? Individually and as a group, walking partly in silence, you will explore how your sense of hearing is embodied and experience collective listening.
As children we learnt to ‘tip-toe’ – to move as silently as we could to create a sense of surprise. We also learnt that by whispering it was harder to be overheard. ‘Eaves-dropping’ on others required stealth and for us to remain silent.
How often do we listen to the sounds we make ourselves, when standing still or walking? The sounds we make elicit responses from the environment through which we pass. These are sounds close by, but our hearing offers us the ability to hear sounds emanating or carried from further away.
What we hear may forewarn us or encourage us to move forward, but we are not at our most confident when out and about in places with which we are not familiar or in darkness. Togetherness may bring courage, through trust, but it also provides a collective way to listen and explore.
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