sharon stewart
Listening as relational practice
Listening connects us to our own bodies and the bodies of others, the land we live with & all dimensions of lived experience, including memory and dreams. Through artistic research, Deep Listening®, field recording, sound art & education, I explore—with others—how listening practices support creative and care-full relationships with the worlds we inhabit.
Listening as relational practice
… We are all moving within a world full of vibrations …
Our bodies are full of pulses and flows. Each new place we travel through or return to has its own vibratory expression, which changes according to variable aspects that are as cyclical and as linear as time itself.
Our being relates continually to this sonic field: it both shapes our sensorium as well as is continually shaped by our sonic presence. Listening as a relational practice explores this continual giving and receiving, its implications, responsibilities and (creative) potential.
Listening as Relational Practice at the Nexus of Land, Community, and Embodied Experience
My Professional Doctorate research at Fontys Academy of the Arts explores how listening-based artistic practices can support care, community-building, and embodied understanding through collaborative sonic methodologies.
Working alongside people living with Parkinson's Disease, the project investigates how listening methods—such as soundwalks, sonic mapping, listening and text scores, sound diaries, and collaborative composition—might make lived experience audible and shareable.
