The Listening Project
The Listening Project is a performance collective consisting of Rosa Ronsdorf, Roos Pollmann, and Rosalie Wammes. The group creates performances grounded in extensive research into female pioneers of electronic music and their unheard stories.
The Rocks are her Ears
In deep dark waves, sounds emerge in long pulsations from cracks in the earth - How do we listen and who do we listen to? This performance is an attempt to listen deeply to time, inspired by composer Éliane Radigue
200 tapes and a box of a thousand papers
Does your echo sound the same as mine? What can we hear on the tapes of the past that have produced the sound of the future? A music theater performance by Rosa Ronsdorf, Roos Pollmann, Rosalie Wammes in collaboration with 5 reel-to-reel players, each with their own character in speed, clarity, extra noise, etc. Our starting point was the life of composer Delia Derbyshire and the feminist voices in electronic music that remained hidden in history books. We told her story through found tapes and new compositions inspired by her work.
Take my time
Take My Time is a project created with elderly people from Amsterdam North. Through Deep Listening workshops, we engaged in conversations about time, the experience of time, and listening to time. These conversations were recorded onto analog tape music (made in the Willem 2 studio in Den Bosch) and presented in a large pink tent during Open Oscillator fesitval, accompanied with a risoleaflet we made together.
The piece is a reference to Delia Derbyshire’s work Four Inventions for Radio, which she created in the 1960s. In this piece, she asked people from all walks of life to reflect on big themes such as God, the Afterlife, Aging, and Dreams. It was the first time that working-class voices were heard on the radio. Combined with her experimental analog tape music, this caused quite a stir. However, the brilliant piece was never credited to her, but to her male employer, Berry Barmange.