Yiannis Christofides - The blind ear

Point Centre for Contemporary Art presents a sound installation by the composer, sound artist and sound designer Yiannis Christofides; a multichannel sonic environment that explores a sense of place through listening, ritual and the condition of darkness.

Yiannis Christofides (b. 1985, Nicosia) is a composer, sound artist and sound designer. Much of his work investigates our experience of place through the use of field recordings as principal material. His particular interest in field recording is in relation to the contextual aspects of sound and the intersensory experience that it affords. Thus it often extends beyond the auditory in order to take into consideration the interdependencies and interactions between different sensory faculties, the multitude of subjective interpretations, memories and personal narratives associated with a particular soundfield and its social and political context. Among others, his work has been presented at many occasions and institutions in Europe and the US (the Internationales Klangkunstfest Berlin 2014 (DE), the wulf., Los Angeles (US), Circuit Bridges | Gallery MC, New York (US), Metamatic: The Art Foundation, Athens (GR), The Ethnological Museum, Nicosia (CY) etc).

Related Events |Program:
Saturday, 8 November 2014, 7:30pm | En route: Concert
Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 7:00-8:30pm | The Listening Group: session A
Friday, 21 November 2014, 8:00pm | Electric Soundscapes: Concert
Saturday, 22 November 2014 | Soundwalk
Wednesday, 26 November 2014, 7:00-8:30pm | The Listening Group: session Β
Friday, 31 October - Saturday, 29 November 2014 | The Sound Library

En Route: A Concert of Recent Works
Yiannis Christofides will present a short concert of works, recently composed and presented at the wulf. in Los Angeles.

The Listening Group |Sessions A+B
The term ‘listening group’ is used here by analogy with the term ‘reading group’. What a reading group commonly does is to read and discuss a book together. Analogously, the purpose of the listening group is to listen together and talk about what we listen to. The first two meetings, taking place at Point, will focus on contemporary music and electroacoustic composition and will introduce some basic ideas in contemporary composition and theory. The first session will be introduced by Dr. Andreas Vrahimis who will briefly discuss the connection between philosophical discussions in the 20th century phenomenological tradition and the concept of acousmatic listening. The introduction will be followed by a presentation by Yiannis Christofides of a work by Bernard Parmegiani that explores acousmatic listening. The second session will involve a discussion, by Christofides and Vrahimis, of the work of the Wandelweiser Group in relation to conceptions of silence in music.

Electric Soundscapes
A concert of works for electroacoustic media by members of the Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers Association (HELMCA) curated by Dr. Katerina Tzedaki.

Soundwalk
Soundwalk in the city of Nicosia led by Dr. Katerina Tzedaki and Yiannis Christofides. A sound walk is defined as “(…) a form of active participation in the soundscape. Though the variations are many, the essence of the soundwalk is to encourage the participant to listen discriminatively, and moreover, to make critical judgments about the sounds heard and their contribution to the balance or imbalance of the sonic environment. (…)." [Source: http://www.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/Soundwalk.html].

The Sound Library
A collection of books, online texts and media exploring sound, listening, experimental and contemporary music, selected by Yiannis Christofides, will be available for study during the extent of the exhibition.

Opening: Friday, 31 October 2014, 7:00pm

Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Friday: 11:00 -18:00
Saturday: 11:00-15:00
*the exhibition can also be viewed by appointment outside opening hours