Collective Ear – Four Radio Plays for Deep Listeners
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Can you listen like a beginner?
Ep. 01

Can you listen like a beginner?

Jun 11, 2025 • 39min 59s

Episode description

For 43 minutes, professional cellist Melody Giron plays Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No.1 in G Major. Or rather – she plays parts of its prelude, over and over, searching for her tone. The ending never arrives. The beginning returns again and again, maintaining a state of perpetual preparation. Listen with us to Cally Spooner’s DEAD TIME (Melody’s Warm Up), 2022. Will you unlearn the melody? Can you listen like a beginner?

Collective Ear is a collaboration between Brand-New-Life Magazine and Zurich University of the Arts.

Episode I is composed of fictional writing and collected fragments of conversations that took place on March 26, 2024, during The Poly Listening Club at Zurich University of the Arts. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or deceased (apart from the artists), may or may not be purely coincidental.

Sound piece: DEAD TIME (Melody’s Warm Up), 2022, by Cally Spooner Texts: Barbara Preisig Sound design: Ronja Svaneborg Proofreading: Bram Opstelten Speakers: Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Mathieu Dafflon, Kris Decker, Alisha Dutt Islam, Emma Murray, Jarina Müller Frischkopf, Barbara Preisig, Alexander Prince Osei, Maria Rebecca Sautter, Ronja Svaneborg

Special thanks to: Cally Spooner, the speakers, Felix Friedrich, Marcel Bleuler, Minda Deol, Laura von Niederhäusern, BA Fine Arts Theory II Class Spring 2024, and the participating audience

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