Commissioned by the Secretary of Culture of Rio de Janeiro in partnership with the Aldir Blanc Law. (2021)
SESSOM is a sound and cinema project that exhibits works constructing narratives and experiences through sound activation. For this first edition, we invited artists from cinema, visual arts, music, theater, poetry, and performance who think about sound through their languages.
The proposal honors World Listening Day (July 18th), a date chosen in honor of the birth of the Canadian composer, writer, and music educator R. Murray Schafer (1933), who, together with his group World Soundscape Project, developed in the 1970s, sound studies on a global scale and fundamental ideas about the concepts of soundscape and acoustic ecology.
Associating Schaefer's studies with the current context, where social isolation is the safest place, careful listening is necessary to understand everyday life and what echoes within us. Within this outbreak, the importance of communication became even more apparent, measured not by the incalculable numbers of lives and virtual meetings but rather by the common interest in connecting with others through dialogues beyond the moment's visuality. The sense of listening is thus emancipated, which, separated from the technological apparatus, becomes an escape to other space-times and not just an empathy of our time.
With SESSOM, Rádio Escada inaugurates a channel dedicated to expanded cinematographic languages to encourage thoughts towards constructing a cinema that precedes vision, even speech, as it becomes unique to each listener's imagination at each point of listening.
Featuring the following artists:
Felix Blume
Saskia
Ronaldo Tapajós
Listen Studio Podcast
Padu
Lucas Carvalho
Paula Gaitán
MV Hemp
Marssares
RSJ Podcast
Bernardo Oliveira
André Parente
Frado
Natalia Amoreira
Welket Bungue
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