Vibration Matters:
The Art & Science of Deep Listening
Four Part Interactive Lecture Series with Victoria Vesna, PHD
Fridays April 2nd - April 23rd
9AM - 11AM Los Angeles
12PM - 2PM New York
6 - 8PM Central Europe
Price:
Complete Series: $80 Sliding Scale
This course is offered live on Zoom and will be hosted on our new learning platform where you can review your classes at any time
(Recordings and all course materials will be viewable for one year).
If you attended previous courses with Yangchenma Arts & Music, you will soon be able to access all your courses in one place with a single login.
This course addresses vibrations from the point of view of visual and sound artists considering the scientific research into matter, brain waves, human and animal voice, environmental noise and outer space. Our starting point is that quantum mechanics are based on music theory and that nanotechnology is showing us the waves that underlie all matter which many Eastern philosophies have known for centuries. We will view and listen to sound art projects that utilize vibrations, noise, and audible and inaudible realms and get in touch with our own soundscape that includes our body, mind, voice and environment vibrations.
Breathing will be central to every session and we will engage in shared deep listening related to the topic of the week. Each session will include a talk with a particular topic followed by shared listening exercises with binaural / immersive sound. Participants are invited to share their weekly responses as video, recordings or writings.
Part One: April 2nd
Deep Listening: Molecular and cellular vibrations
Part Two: April 9th
Deep Listening: Brain Waves and Space
Part Three: April 16th
Deep Listening: Human / Animal Voice / Mantra
Part Four: April 23rd
Noise Pollution
Deep Listening: Environment / Weather
Watch Introduction to Vibration Matters Course:
About your Teacher
Victoria Vesna, Ph.D., is an Artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci Center at the School of the Arts (North campus) and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) (South campus). Although she was trained early on as a painter (Faculty of Fine arts, University of Belgrade, 1984), her curious mind took her on an exploratory path that resulted in work can be defined as experimental creative research residing between disciplines and technologies. With her installations she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behavior and perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation (PhD, CAiiA_STAR, University of Wales, 2000). Her work involves long-term collaborations with composers, nano-scientists, neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists and she brings this experience to students. Victoria has exhibited her work in 20+ solo exhibitions, 70+ group shows, has been published in 20+ papers and gave 100+ invited talks in the last decade. She is the North American editor of AI & Society journal (Springer Verlag, UK) and in 2007 published an edited volume - Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow (Minnesota Press) and another in 2011 -- Context Providers: Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts. (co-edited with Christiane Paul and Margot Lovejoy) Intellect Ltd, 2011. Currently she is working on a series Art Science & Technology based on her online lecture class.