Following the success of the Remedies – Lullaby Nest exhibition by Sasha Huber and Petri Saarikko, The Showroom is hosting workshops and an artist talk in the themes of the exhibition.

12 November: Sasha Huber, Petri Saarikko and Matshidiso in conversation

To coincide with their exhibition Remedies – Lullaby Nest join artists Sasha Huber, Petri Saarikko and Matshidiso in-conversation with Gabriela Salgado, The Showroom’s director. The event will include the opportunity to listen to London-based composer Matshidiso’s lullaby soundscape, and will consider the exhibition within Huber and Saarikko’s wider Remedies Universe project instigated in 2010.

Tuesday 12 November at 6.30-8.30pm at The Showroom (63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ). Free event, booking is required. Please visit this link to book your tickets.

16 November: Listening to Listening with Matshidiso

Within the context of the ongoing Remedies – Lullaby Nest exhibition join London-based composer Matshidiso to reflect on her soundscape, with an exploratory workshop into sound: how we hear and how we listen, and what we listen to – both externally and internally within ourselves.

In her 2010 book, Quantum Listening, American composer and performer, Pauline Oliveros makes the distinction between hearing and listening,

‘Hearing represents the primary sense organs – hearing happens involuntarily. Listening is a voluntary process that through training and experiences produces culture. All cultures develop through ways of listening.’

For Matshidiso ‘listening within the context of music, is, to my mind, more than just the notes, the chords, the harmonies, the rhythm, it’s the spaces in between. The vibrational frequencies that continue between chords, that continue after the music stops. How do we listen to that, how do we experience that? And why, if at all, do we need to experience it?.’

Starting from the macro – the sounds we hear around us, to the micro – the sounds we hear within, this workshop will explore these ideas, asking questions rather an presenting answers, and discovering ways to create better connection with ourselves and each other.

Saturday 16 November at 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm at The Showroom (63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ). Tickets £5, booking is required. Please book your tickets via this link.

Photo: Cesare De Giglio