The Listening Body
Explore music through embodied experience and phenomenological awareness
This workshop invites participants to explore how to listen to music with the whole body. Through live piano music, meditation, simple exercises, and reflection, we investigate music from a phenomenological, experience-based perspective—as it is actually perceived in the present moment.
Our Approach
The work is grounded in bodily cognition (embodied cognition) and directs attention both toward the body and toward the music itself—exploring melody, rhythm, harmony, repetition, tension, and continuity.
Participants are invited to listen without analyzing or explaining, and to trust their own sensory experience.
Composers
We explore fundamental musical phenomena through works by:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
Claude Debussy
Arnold Schönberg
Arvo Pärt
What We Emphasize
Listening with the body
Rather than understanding through concepts
Relational meaning
How each tone gains meaning through the one that precedes and follows it
Continuity
Experiencing music as continuous flow rather than separate moments
Musical Phenomena We Explore
The Meditation
Before listening anew, participants are guided through a meditation in which attention is gathered in the body, the breath, and sensory awareness—creating a foundation for deeper, more grounded listening.
Who Can Participate?
No prior experience required. The aim is not to find correct answers, but to open up space for presence, curiosity, and a deeper connection with both music and one’s own experience.