// The scale of a shared listening (Kensington variations).

 

The scale of a shared listening (Kensington variations)
Sally Ann McIntyre
(2020)

A set of scores is made, using the location. These form a series of clearings, in which a fleeting listening to local sounds becomes sketchily located. The scores interact with points on an experiential map which may or may not be understood as a set of places to get to, and which may or may not have changed their sounds within current constraints of human activity. These scores are then sent out for realisation through forms of analogue interactivity. These respect the privacy of other listenings, which always exceed ‘social bubbles’ of isolation, and do not ask listeners to turn up at a place at a particular time.

 

As a set of instructions they do not structure attention or impose further disciplinary constraints on bodies. They invite an open listening which includes the subversion of their own constraints, asking for forms of scattered collective attention which might remain undeclared. Any feedback from the scores functions as a further set of instructions, which inform a set of transmissions to be heard in the (same) place. These also sit as a set of transient and sometimes inaccessible circles, within the territories of listening.

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