For Festivals and Cultural Organizers

The Listening Body offers tools and perspectives for festivals and cultural organisations seeking to engage audiences in deeper and more participatory ways. We have contributed to a range of festivals through talks, listening practices, workshops, and contextual programs that support how audiences encounter music and sound.

This approach can help prepare and open audiences to more fully receive what a festival has to offer—musically, sensorially, and emotionally. By cultivating deep, present listening, these practices invite audiences to become aware of their own role in the experience: not as passive consumers, but as active participants whose attention, bodies, and ways of listening shape the event itself.

The Listening Body can be integrated into festival programmes in many forms, including pre-concert sessions, listening walks, workshops, artist talks, or reflective spaces woven into the festival schedule. We are open to collaboration and dialogue, and to developing formats that resonate with each festival’s artistic profile, context, and audience.