Listening with the Body: a Harp Journey

Saturday, 21 September 2024 | 05:00 PM

BELLINGEN MUSE presents...

Listening with the Body is a journey through the powerfully moving resonances of the harp. Together Alice Giles & Moran Wiesel create a space on the main floor of the Memorial Hall for the audience to explore the art of listening.

The musical program is rich and varied, including Bach, Fauré, Debussy, the contemporary Australian composer Mary Doumany, and some improvisation.

The program runs without applause to enhance the immersive experience.
Each program adapts and responds to individual audiences, makingListening with the Body a collaboration between listener and performer.

Moran draws on meditative and sensory awareness practices to help us listen in a deeply embodied way to the harp, our inner worlds, each other and the music.

The audience, arranged 'in the round', may move, lie or sit to engage with the sound, colour & complex patterns of Alice’s harp playing, playing from the centre. This creates the freedom for the audience to move if they wish, or to sit or lie, and feel within themselves the sound, colour, and complex patterns of the harp music.

Creating space for people to journey into the deepest parts of the music and themselves is an essential element forListening with the Body.
This is in contrast to listening to be entertained, as a consumer, or with analytical / critical / intellectual minds.

In Listening with the Body, Alice and Moran have crafted elements to enable:

• Bypassing performer/listener separations, so that the listener/receiver feels empowered to experience music in the way that is the most meaningful for them;
• Creating a feeling of freedom and intention in the “performance” space, to allow music to enter in the deepest places;
• Entering and using the world of the resonance of harp - with the sound, colour and complex patterns of music.
• Using sensory-awareness/body movement, intentional meditation/mindfulness, and a sense of shared listening community, to access this world.

 

TICKETS

Alice and Moran are appearing at this year's Bellingen Muse with the support of Musica Viva.

 

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Bellingen Memorial Hall