A Frei and Franziska Koch invite to a multi-channel sound installation and listening exercises around relational and situated listening and decolonial and queer feminist sound practices. The exercises, in the form of a leaflet/ poster (german or english), can be used by visitors on the paths between the different barns at the klang moor schopfe festival.

Based on interviews, texts and listening scores by the composer Pauline Oliveros, her thoughts on «androgynous music», reflections on environmental listening by the geographer and sound artist AM Kanngieser and the examination of the card sets of «decolonial futures» (Radical Tenderness & With/out Modernity), A Frei and Franziska Koch developed a series of listening exercises to specifically use in the environment of the festival (Gais, Appenzell).

In collaboration with the invited artists Nelson Irsapoullé, Tracy September and Vivian Wang, the proposed exercises were brought into physical experience and interaction with the environment on the various paths between the barns in the run-up to the festival, renegotiated together and applied. One subjective application of each of the five artists' exercises was recorded using various forms of microphony. These five tracks, simultaneously recorded together but singularly, form the basis for the multi-channel sound installation that is the starting point of the exercises, expanding and contextualising them with further thoughts.

The exercises and the sound installation start from modes of listening, from questions around «ethics of listening», which go beyond an auditory perception. «I consider listening as a process of perceiving, sensing, tuning in and noticing. I listen with my hands, my eyes, my skin, my belly.» (AM Kanngieser). There is no universal, objective, innocent or separate listening. Listening, like all communication, is trained, culturally shaped, embodied, geographically specific and infused with socio-political and economic power/relationships.

Klang Moor Schopfe 2021