Facilitation and Education

The progamme is unique in New Zealand as it provides on hands-on facilitation of artists’ bespoke requirements as negotiated. This may take several forms including:

• Technical assistance in studio operation (hardware/software, etc)

• Facilitation of creative ideas in the form of applied theoretical approaches. This aspect of support draws on the facilitator’s 30-years of experience as a university lecturer.

• Short educational programmes based on the facilitator's 275-page book Sonic Entanglements: Artmaking with Sound, which presents a model and a way of thinking about the process of listening and, thus artmaking with sound. Based on a collection of multisensory modes of listening, it serves to simplify and unite numerous theories. Eight modes of listening (or modes of auditory attention) are identified, representing the: expressive, formal, referential, visual, gestural, environmental, spatial, and structural qualities of sound. These modes of listening tend to be simultaneously activated as they are managed by different areas within the brain. The model departs from previous stepwise, sequential ways of conceptualising the listening process and encourages composers and sonic artists to think multimodally in their artmaking practices.