Echoes Deep Listening

Inspired by Annie Goh's thinking on how echoed sounds don't just repeat the original but go on to live their own lives and tell their own stories, Echoes is a deep listening project exploring how music becomes that echo. Every sound echoes differently in each of us, brings in different reflections, feelings and bodily sensations and this is what we're trying to capture during each session. Every time, we meet in a group following a theme. The group first shares songs, or broader - sounds, representing the theme. This crowdsourced playlist is then curated following three stages: Immersion, Activation, Release. During the session, we listen - deeply - using somatic exercises, visual stimulation or deprivation of it - sharing whatever resurfaces for us, memory, emotion or body-wise. Most importantly, we're connecting to sound in a playful way without blindly following the automated curation - we take care of it ourselves. Creating a conversation that otherwise would have never happened.