Listen Club 25: Adrian Newton

About Listen Club 25: Adrian Newton

Join us for Listen Club 25, curated by sound artist, podcaster, ecologist Adrian Newton!

We’re living in an unprecedented period of rapid environmental change, including global heating, biodiversity loss and the spread of microplastics and other pollutants. Most of these changes are attributable to human actions. But what does environmental change sound like? If we listen carefully enough, can we hear how ecosystems are being transformed? In this session I’ll present a series of short sound clips recently gathered from different natural environments, using a variety of recording techniques. These include ancient woodlands affected by climate change, beaches polluted by plastic, and the hidden sounds of anthills, bumblebee nests, chalk streams, beaver colonies and sand dunes. As we listen, we’ll explore what these recordings can reveal about the impacts of people on wildlife, and the ecological processes going on around us. We’ll also consider how our responses to these changes might be examined, through the use of field recordings in music and sound art. 

Artist bio: Adrian Newton spent several decades researching human impacts on ecosystems, while working as an ecologist for a variety of research institutes and universities, and the United Nations Environment Programme. For the past 15 years he has also been a practicing sound artist, creating work that examines the sounds of environmental change. His sound work has been featured in a number of national and international festivals, and broadcast on national radio. He also produces the monthly internet radio show and podcast Sound mosaics for a broken world

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About Listen Club

A programme of unusual sound-works, soundscape composition, and music from the present and the past, chosen by Sound Art Brighton artists and invited guests.

Listen club is all about coming together to listen to music with the possibility of sharing impressions and casual discussion afterwards. Listen Club hopes to provide a counterpoint to the quick paced personal consumption of music with a more patient shared experience; a deep listen, together, in order to foster community.

Curators will guide the experience - briefly discussing the details of the selections and providing background on the music and artists chosen. We aim to present a variety of styles and listening experiences that may include anything from long duration singular sound works to a series of work on a particular theme. On average we will listen together for 45min to an hour, with time for discussion and conversation afterwards. 

Once a month, 7-9pm, at The Rose Hill

About Sound Art Brighton

Sound Art Brighton is an independent initiative that celebrates the presence of sound art in Brighton, UK. Building on the wide interest this art form has attracted in the city, we promote the diversity of sound in its intrinsic relations with other arts and the everyday. We reach out to all practitioners and facilitators engaged in this hybrid art form and who contribute in their sonic ways to Brighton’s urban environment and communal life. Our activities include city-wide events, a partner network, an interactive website and research projects. https://soundartbrighton.com