Please Listen to This: performance by Lauren Tortil at the Biennale du Son

‍Please Listen to This is a performance project staging a collective sound orchestration in public and urban space. This so-called mediated orchestration unfolds in the space with the help of some fifteen performers and the audience, equipped with audio headphones, who both receive instructions recorded in real time via an app on their smartphones. Through a process of transmission, this performance proposes to federate a group of people by means of headphones – a technology initially for individual use that favors withdrawal – in order to offer them a sensitive experience based on heightened attention to their environment.

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