Listening to the other

New modes of listening and methods for contemporary sound art practices Our contemporary, globalised society demands new forms of listening. But what are these new forms? In Listening to the Other, Stefan stersj challenges conventional understandings of the ways musicians listen. He develops a transmodal understanding of listening that is situated in the bodya body that is extended by its mediation through musical instruments and other technologies. Listening habits can turn these toolsand even the body itselfinto resistant objects or musical Others. Supported by extensive multimedia documentation and drawing on examples from the authors own artistic projects spanning electronics, intercultural collaboration, and ecological sound art, this volume enables musicians to learn how to approach musical Others through alternative modes of listening and allows readers to discover artistic methods for intercultural collaboration and ecological sound art practices. This book is closely linked to a series of cutting-edge artistic works, including a triple concerto recorded with the Seattle Symphony and several video works with ecological sound art. It represents the analytical outcomes of artistic research projects carried out in Sweden, the UK, and Belgium between 2009 and 2015. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).