Listening against

Theodore Teichman

This is an archive of places, but it is even more an archive of the materiality of listening. This constitutes a larger inquiry and fascination with the listening as performance and the various “instruments” and “scores” that shape or encode this sonic event of the performance of the image. In particular, this project uses this arts-based research approach to engage critically with the concept of "The Transition," which has shaped the geography and imaginary of Ex-Yugoslavia. This is a collection of recordings made and then composed into soundscapes between September 2018 and May 2019 in Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Kosovo. Through these techniques I propose an approach soundscape practices to engage materially the constitutive world of listening and the narration of time-worlds.

I went to the Sarajevo train station on a mid-late afternoon in April. There was a fair amount of activity, yet with long gaps between the train departures and arrivals. It is remarkable how discontinuous the space is sonically, with sounds rolling rapidly through the space and colliding into each other. While the space is quite isolated from the urban soundscape outside, inside one hears a sonic fluidity in the space between the train platforms and the lobby.

Glavna željeznička stanica u Sarajevu, April 2019

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