"After the End"
Sound Scene
A project of the DC Listening Lounge
Sound Scene is curated by the DC Listening Lounge audio arts collective and hosted by the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and features the creative work of artists from across the world.
In 2019 Sound Scene broke attendance records for the Hirshhorn museum attracting more than 14,000 attendees over 2 days.
Sound Scene celebrates sound through multi-sensory art installations including sculptural, headphone-based and multi-channel interactive exhibits. Our live stage features performances of dance, music, and spoken word. Sound Scene’s small group workshops invite audiences to explore acoustics, beat-making, sound production, sonic meditation, group improvisation, and more.
Free event, open to the public.
June 3 Workshop
Katya Rozanova is a Berlin and Brooklyn-based learner, artist, and educator.
For Sound Scenes 2023 Festival she will present her work
Speaking and Listening with Tactile Sound Objects, accessible Tactile Sound Objects for Groups as tools to facilitate collaborative and contemplative practices.
Speaking and Listening with Tactile Sound Objects is a participatory public installation (with accompanying workshops) of semi-autonomous group of sound objects, or anti-instruments, programmed to decide when they want to make sounds and how to respond to one another and to human input (touch, sound, proximity), appearing as though they have some sonic agency. People are invited to linger with, speak near, and listen to these objects whose sonic behavior evolves over time.
Rozanova makes reflexive critical sound objects that can be collaborated with, sculpture, and generative and time-based new media works. She teaches art and design at CUNY and other collages. Focusing on cooperative structures and mutual as well as engaging with others on the topic. Katya thinks about cross-species collaboration with her collaborators at Bread Symphony and draws political cartoons.
Her work has been shown in formal and informal contexts, including back yards, living rooms, Essex Flowers, Baby Castles, The Museum of the Moving Image, Un/Sounding the Relational City, The NYC Electroacoustic Improvisation Summit, Issue Project Room, and Pineapple Reality in New York, Platform Space at University of California, Berkeley, International Conference on Movement and Computing in Chicago, SloMoCo residency and Accessible Objects online, and will be featured at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (SoundScene 2023) in Washington DC (upcoming).
She has developed a deep knowledge of neoliberal work culture and, consequently, espoused a life-long commitment to work towards pro-social collaborations that free the body and mind for real work, and, equally, for nonwork.
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