Hearkening #1

Hearkening is a four-evening series hosted by Dreamsong that pairs short film screenings with live music performances. These combinations bring artists and works into a dialogue that traverses themes, regions and forms to encourage a broader process of listening. Not limited to the sonic, this approach to listening includes visual, somatic and imaginal registers, and involves an opening toward and sharing oneself with another. The term hearkening is used by the writer Lawrence Kramer to describe the kind of attention that turns listening into a transformational act, both for the sounding subject and for the listener. “When we hearken to a sound we engage in a movement toward a beyond, an elsewhere, and one that can never be fully attained. This drift is our means of belonging to the world.” (Lawrence Kramer, The Hum of the World). The series is co-organized by Andy Graydon and Luke Martin.

Program 1 features live performances by Jose Fernando Solares, Mitch Stahlmann and Noah Ophoven-Baldwin with films by Fern Silva, Rini Yun Keagy, Jeremy Bolen, Nancy Valladares, Andrea Carlson and Amina Harper.