Listening as artistic practice
(2025)
author(s): Halldis Ronning
published in: Research Catalogue
In this essay Halldis Rønning looks at conducting and musical performance through the lense of extended listening. She elaborates on how extended listening is the basis of her artistic practice and how a focus on different listening modes can inform and expand the roles, methods, structures and expressions within a conductor-orchestra relationship.
Her listening practice opens up the traditional symphonic roles of conductor and orchestra, by giving space for creative collaborations, flexible leadership, fluctuating agency, transdisciplinary work and an exploration of the performing body as an expression in itself.
