Sound artist Claudia Molitor will give the World Premiere of her new installation Listen to my World later this week. Launching at Kortrijk-based festival Wilde Westen, Listen to my World will run from Thursday 10 to Sunday 13 March before travelling to SPOR. The installation is now explorable through a dedicated website containing stories and voices of the project’s many participants, coinciding with the work’s live premiere. Click here to visit the website now.
Through sound and visuals, Listen to my World is another step forward in Molitor’s expansive, outward-looking approach to creating. Making use of foraging and collaborating, Molitor’s work is constantly in conversation with something, or someone, else. Interested in lesser heard stories, her work makes use of field recordings and found instrumentation. She offers translations – ways of explaining one space, or situation, to another. Installations such as Auricularis Superior and Singing Bridge have aimed for this kind of visitation, referencing and colouring in places while offering new ways to hear them. Her new audio installation, Listen to my World, continues to share these interlinking stories.
Listen to my World is another one of Molitor’s collaborations, though the scope is wider, the conversation bigger. Communicating with five people living in different European towns and enabling them to tell their own stories, Molitor reflects on these encounters through sound. Following in the footsteps of versamt, her collaboration with choreographer Anna Koch at hcmf// 2020, she brings environmental and social stories close to one another, implementing visual and sonic material from across the continent to reflect the connections, and divergences, in the lives of the participants involved.
According to Molitor, ‘Listen to my World is born out of an interest in listening to stories less often told, and the belief that these stories matter.’ The project ‘shows us different ways of thinking about ourselves and the world, and how we might change the structures that permeate society and privilege only the very few.’ Molitor invites us to ‘reflect on what it is that makes us feel included or excluded from a place or space’, championing listening for its ability to share out agency and autonomy.
Listen to my World is part of the Sounds Now project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. The project is co-commissioned by hcmf//, Wilde Westen, SPOR, Time of Music, Transit, Onassis.