RESEARCH
'Preemptive Listening' research project funded by an AHRC research, development and engagement fellowship (2022-2024), hosted at the Royal College of Art
AHRC Research Associates: Dr Irene Ravell and Dr Francesca Laura Cavallo
25-27 April 2024, UK premiere of Preemptive Listening at Tate Modern, followed by a series of musician and artist-led performances and talks, and a symposium.
Curated alongside London-based artist and filmmaker Aura Satz, Tate foregrounds sonic practices over three days, expanding out of the Starr Cinema into the bowels of the Tanks. With the filmmaker and her collaborators, we're prompted to think about these sets of questions, and many others: Does an alarm have to sound alarming? How can we address alarm fatigue, both as lived reality and as a metaphor for our current state?
The programme is organised by Tate Film in collaboration with the Preemptive Listening team at the Royal College of Art (Aura Satz with Francesca Laura Cavallo and Irene Revell), part-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and Fondazione In Between Art Film.
AHRC Research Associates: Dr Irene Ravell and Dr Francesca Laura Cavallo
25-27 April 2024, UK premiere of Preemptive Listening at Tate Modern, followed by a series of musician and artist-led performances and talks, and a symposium.
Curated alongside London-based artist and filmmaker Aura Satz, Tate foregrounds sonic practices over three days, expanding out of the Starr Cinema into the bowels of the Tanks. With the filmmaker and her collaborators, we're prompted to think about these sets of questions, and many others: Does an alarm have to sound alarming? How can we address alarm fatigue, both as lived reality and as a metaphor for our current state?
The programme is organised by Tate Film in collaboration with the Preemptive Listening team at the Royal College of Art (Aura Satz with Francesca Laura Cavallo and Irene Revell), part-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), and Fondazione In Between Art Film.
Thursday 25 April 2024
18.30 – 20.30 Screening of Preemptive Listening, conversation and Q&A with Aura Satz, as part of Open City Documentary Festival
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/preemptive-listening-day-one
https://opencitylondon.com/events/preemptive-listening/
Friday 26 April 2024
18.00 – 19.00 In Conversation with Evelyn Glennie
20.00 – 21.00 Performance by Elaine Mitchener and David Toop
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/preemptive-listening-day-two
The entire Tate Late will be devoted to sonic disobedience, and the full programme for the Late will be revealed soon.
Saturday 27 April 2024:
Join the Preemptive Listening symposium culminating in a performance by Raven Chacon
All day symposium including many of the film's contributors, with talks by Hillel Schwartz, Khalid Abdallah, Mazen Kerbaj, Margarida Mendes, Camille Norment, Jason Waite (Don’t Follow the Wind Collective), Xenia Benivolski, Carina Fearnley, Jennifer Gabrys, Arturo Escobar, Riar Rizaldi, Jana Winderen, Francesca Laura Cavallo, Raven Chacon, Irene Revell
All the participants biographies are accessible here:
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/preemptive-listening-day-three
Impact activities and workshops:
12 June 2023 The Voice of Warning workshops in collaboration with UCL Warning Research Centre and Stop Sizewell C, funded by OKRE and UCL Music Futures
Evaluation Report: Francesca Laura Cavallo (2023) Music Futures: The Voice of Warning, RCA Preemptive Listening + UCL Warning Research Centre + STOP Sizewell C
11-13 September 2023, The Voice of Warning: Sizewell C and Hearing Warnings presented at 'Warnings for All' Conference, UCL, London
16 October 2024 “Pre-sirens”: Alarm Calls from the more than human, at The HUB (Wellcome Collection), in collaboration between the Preemptive Listening project, Invisible Flock's ongoing research into Land Body Ecologies, and UCL's Warning Research Centre, with support from the RCA Research Impact award.
Publications:
Cavallo, Francesca Laura, Paul Dorfman, Judy Edworthy, Lisa Lavia, Gascia Ouzounian, Irene Revell, Aura Satz, and Joel Stern. 2024. “Preemptive Listening: A Roundtable Discussion about Sirens.” Sound Studies 10 (2): 313–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2024.2348243
Guest-edited issue of Disclaimer, a journal for new thinking and writing on listening and sound, published by Liquid Architecture. Guest-edited by the Preemptive Listening team (Aura Satz, Francesca Laura Cavallo and Irene Revell) with Tate Film (Valentine Umansky and Beatriz Garcia-Velasco), forthcoming
18.30 – 20.30 Screening of Preemptive Listening, conversation and Q&A with Aura Satz, as part of Open City Documentary Festival
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/preemptive-listening-day-one
https://opencitylondon.com/events/preemptive-listening/
Friday 26 April 2024
18.00 – 19.00 In Conversation with Evelyn Glennie
20.00 – 21.00 Performance by Elaine Mitchener and David Toop
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/preemptive-listening-day-two
The entire Tate Late will be devoted to sonic disobedience, and the full programme for the Late will be revealed soon.
Saturday 27 April 2024:
Join the Preemptive Listening symposium culminating in a performance by Raven Chacon
All day symposium including many of the film's contributors, with talks by Hillel Schwartz, Khalid Abdallah, Mazen Kerbaj, Margarida Mendes, Camille Norment, Jason Waite (Don’t Follow the Wind Collective), Xenia Benivolski, Carina Fearnley, Jennifer Gabrys, Arturo Escobar, Riar Rizaldi, Jana Winderen, Francesca Laura Cavallo, Raven Chacon, Irene Revell
All the participants biographies are accessible here:
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/preemptive-listening-day-three
Impact activities and workshops:
12 June 2023 The Voice of Warning workshops in collaboration with UCL Warning Research Centre and Stop Sizewell C, funded by OKRE and UCL Music Futures
Evaluation Report: Francesca Laura Cavallo (2023) Music Futures: The Voice of Warning, RCA Preemptive Listening + UCL Warning Research Centre + STOP Sizewell C
11-13 September 2023, The Voice of Warning: Sizewell C and Hearing Warnings presented at 'Warnings for All' Conference, UCL, London
16 October 2024 “Pre-sirens”: Alarm Calls from the more than human, at The HUB (Wellcome Collection), in collaboration between the Preemptive Listening project, Invisible Flock's ongoing research into Land Body Ecologies, and UCL's Warning Research Centre, with support from the RCA Research Impact award.
Publications:
Cavallo, Francesca Laura, Paul Dorfman, Judy Edworthy, Lisa Lavia, Gascia Ouzounian, Irene Revell, Aura Satz, and Joel Stern. 2024. “Preemptive Listening: A Roundtable Discussion about Sirens.” Sound Studies 10 (2): 313–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/20551940.2024.2348243
Guest-edited issue of Disclaimer, a journal for new thinking and writing on listening and sound, published by Liquid Architecture. Guest-edited by the Preemptive Listening team (Aura Satz, Francesca Laura Cavallo and Irene Revell) with Tate Film (Valentine Umansky and Beatriz Garcia-Velasco), forthcoming
