[resource-net] 28.11 @Liebig12 // Berlin > Workshop::Listening Bodies::Michael Reiley McDermott & Monica Gentile

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Dear everyone,
liebig12 is pleased to invite you to the following workshop!
::Listening Bodies::Michael Reiley McDermott & Monica Gentile

Wednesday 28.11.2018

18-20h

Former Liebig12 resident Michael Reiley McDermott along with his
collaborator, Monica Gentile will lead a class exploring the threshold of
listening. Their project, Listening Bodies, pairs Deep Listening and
Somatic Body practices.

Through body, mind and sensory experience we will explore topics such as,
Somatic Practices, Deep Listening, mindfulness of listening, synesthesia
and the history and frontiers of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
(ASMR).

ASMR is an experience characterized by a static-like or tingling sensation
on the skin that typically begins on the scalp and moves down the back of
the neck and upper spine. It has been compared with auditory-tactile
synesthesia and may overlap with frisson. ASMR signifies the subjective
experience of “low-grade euphoria” characterized by “a combination of
positive feelings and a distinct static-like tingling sensation on the
skin”. It is most commonly triggered by specific auditory or visual
stimuli, and less commonly by intentional attention control.

Listening Bodies is a teaching framework developed by Italian choreographer
and Movement Researcher Monica Gentile and American composer and sound
artist Michael Reiley McDermott. Their work includes exercises in Movement
Research/dance improvisation and partnering, Deep Listening, breathing
techniques, sound-walks, guided meditations, mindfulness of listening and
singing performance scores. Listening Bodies integrates Monica and
Michael’s interest in physiology, anatomy, somatic practices, paleontology,
evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

Michael Reiley McDermott is a composer, musician, coder and sound designer.
He has created works for video, dance, stage, installation, smartphones,
multi-speaker arrays, wind sculptures, wishing wells and sleeping/dreaming.
His practice explores the relationship between present moment awareness,
deep time and humanity’s personal connection through listening. His work
integrates a daily practice of meditation, Deep Listening and textured
sound worlds through a process he calls “sonic photography”. This process
involves site-specific recordings of physical spaces re-imagined using
photographic development and collage techniques. His aim is to reframe the
everyday world as both a grand statement that stretches out in both
directions of time and as an ephemeral instant of precious connection.

In 2016 he completed a certification program in Deep Listening studying
with Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros. He was recently Artist in
Residence at <fidget>, Composer in Residence for Temple University’s BEEP
Ensemble and Composer in Residence at Village of the Arts and Humanities.
Over the past two years, he has been traveling at artists residencies
around the world in Brazil, Iceland, Germany, Thailand, and India working
on a sound design project of extinct animal sounds called Echozoo.

michaelreileymcdermott.com

Monica Gentile’s choreographic work and physical research investigate the
embodiment of animalistic qualities, trance, minimalism, and the states of
the body, energy, and breath. In particular, she is interested in
investigating contrasting concepts within the body (presence/absence,
solidity/evanescence) with a visual and imagery based approach. Her intent
is to reveal these paradoxical states through evocative choreographic
elements and in the construction of hybrid figures with the body and its
gestures. Her work is characterized by a strong presence – creating an
atmospheric/imaginary space around the body and expressing connections to
forms found in nature, landscapes, and the geographical. The point of
reference in her work is not only the body itself but how we place it and
perceive it in relation to what surrounds us.

She graduated at the University “DAMS THEATER” at the Faculty of Philosophy
and Literature of Bologna. She is a dancer, choreographer, Yoga Teacher and
a martial arts practitioner (Kung fu and Aikido). Her dance practice is
based on Movement Research and Somatic Practices. The choreographers and
artists she has worked with have brought her to understand artistic
practice as a political, ethical choice, related to the artist’s
surroundings: Virgilio Sieni (Director of the Biennale Danza, Venice),
Simona Bertozzi, Anna Albertarelli (working in the companies Gohatto and
Vi-Kap), Michele Di Stefano (MK), Sonia Brunelli (Barokthegreat), Cristina
Rizzo (Kinkaleri) with whom she formed the group of research CAN I. More
recently in Berlin Peter Player, Maria Francesca Scaroni, Renate Graziadei,
Maya Carroll and Julyen Hamilton, Keith Hennessy, Clara Furey, Nita Little

>From 2011 she attended the School of Hatha Yoga ISYCO through the
Department of Oriental studies of the University of Torino where she got
the Degree of Hatha Yoga Teacher. She has been teaching since 2010 and has
a wide range of experience with her body and a broad knowledge of the
body’s anatomy and Indian physiology. In 2015 she became Laughing Yoga
Leader, working with Chronical pain patients at the Immanul Klinik
(Berlin). In 2018 she collaborated with the Choreographer Alessandro
Sciarroni in the production ”Augusto” as a Laughter Yoga Coach.
monicagentile.wordpress.com

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