MEET ME IN LISTENING, by Elizabeth Ellis & Helena Krobath
Meet Me in Listening is an excerpt from a project of the same name, created by Elizabeth Ellis and Helena Krobath. The artists experimented with ways of sharing listening, recursively soundwalking and debriefing on a chosen route together over a period of time. The resulting text invites listeners to imagine their connectedness by way of sound. Each movement is open-ended and benefits from experimenting and repetition. The text was also the basis of an interactive public soundwalk in 2018 (presented by Vancouver New Music and Vancouver Soundwalk Collective).
Elizabeth Ellis is an artist, graphic designer, and arts organizer. Her practice stems from multi-sensory readings of her surrounding ecologies and their conditions (garden, colour, weather, and fermentation) to explore expansive modes of communication. She is interested in the poetics of listening, and listening with others. // Helena Krobath is intrigued by imaginary spaces, narrative formations, infrastructures, and sensory tuning. Helena has led many soundwalks with Vancouver Soundwalk Collective; created community audio mentorship programs; and presented electroacoustic fictions/radio art.