Event
Hearing Beyond the Staves
In today’s digital age, information is produced, distributed and consumed in brief, instantaneous, and mostly visual bursts. Feeds, posts, stories, and tweets compete for likes, comments, and followers rather than coexist as waves of difference and nuance. As a result, authentic dialogue and listening have given way to a more polarized and turbulent discourse.
Although our vehicles of information, communication and community building have expanded exponentially with the help of technological innovation, there exists a need to revive education and creativity based on the human sense of hearing.
As a follow up to Hear, Think, Act: Jazz Forms of/in/for Life, we seek to expand our understanding of the auditory process and experience — in its physical, creative, and educational forms. The conference seeks to present a collage of knowledge organized around concepts, theories, ideas, projects, and works of art.
Welcome
Hearing Beyond the Staves
Dr. Aviv Livnat is an artist, musician, social activist and a lecturer at the Bezalel Art Academy, Tel Aviv University and NYU Tel Aviv.
Greetings
Yehiel Moshe “Hili” Tropper is an Israeli educator, social worker and politician who currently serves as Minister of Culture and Sports.
Keynote
Sun
Seven-time Grammy winner Paul Winter has an unrivaled body of work in the musical traditions and natural environments of the Earth.
Concepts
Sound
Oshrat Holland is an architect, set designer, director, performer, and educator. She holds an MA in Performance Design and Practice (with distinction) from Central Saint Martin’s College of art, UAL, London.
Polyrhythm
Dr. Aviv Livnat is an artist, musician, social activist and a lecturer at the Bezalel Art Academy, Tel Aviv University and NYU Tel Aviv.
Information
Haya Sheffer is a Practice-based PhD student at the School of Art at the University of Reading. She is a London-based new-media artist who explores personal, human, and cultural behavior through art.
Tree
Dr. Mali Nevo received her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Management, at Tel Aviv University. Mali’s work focuses on sustainability, human-nature relations and Nature-Therapy.
Sea
Kobi Yonatan is a TV cameraman who has covered armed conflicts and other major events in the Middle East. In addition, he is a video artist and a documentary filmmaker, including underwater.
Stone
Saleem A’amer, a native of Acre, is a sculptor, educator and the founding director of al-Madrasa, a traditional sculpture studio that teaches stone carving, ancient methods of construction and building conservation.
Voice
Kineret Erez is a former member of the 5 time Grammy Award-winning A cappella group The Swingle Singers and of the British Shlomo & the Vocal Orchestra (the first global Beatbox Choir). She has recorded vocals on Hollywood and Disney soundtracks and today is a musical director, educator and arranger.
Silence
Sylvain Watmann studied composition, musicology and guitar in France before moving to India to train in Dhrupad, the ancient classical style of North Indian music. He spent 10 years in India exploring ancient music and Sanskrit philosophy.
Movement
Tami Asulin, deaf from birth, is a renowned performer, activist and poet.
Act
Yehonatan Nachshoni is a PhD student in philosophy and mysticism at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Home
Marine Zorea is a designer, researcher and artist based in Israel and Japan. She earned her MSc in product design at Kyoto Institute of Technology, where she is currently researching emergent home technologies.
Space
Emilia Pasyńczuk is a blind musician and third-year student of special education at the University of Białystok (Poland) on a Rector’s Scholarship.
Child
Agata Skalska is a Ph.D. candidate, research assistant, and lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, where she is also currently building the new Janusz Korczak archive.
Prayer
Glorified Fruit of the Vine
Adam Aronov is a computer scientist and graduate of Bezalel Academy, department of Industrial Design.
Composition
Dr. Eilon Aviram holds a Ph.D. in Music Education from Bar-Ilan University. For years he has been involved with musical instruction at various educational levels, from elementary to college.
Curation
Hagit Emma Werner is an architect and independent curator from Tel Aviv. She formulates “Listening Curation,” a methodological compass for curators who want to work with sound.
