To listen to the complex polyrhythms of a rainforest can be overwhelming and liberating at the same time. Liberating in the sense of letting go of the expectation of a specific flow of sounds, as we know it from musical compositions and the desire of cognition and familiarity, which comes with it. To listen to unfamiliar rhythms and frequencies creates shifts in our sense of hearing and the sense of ourselves.
Sharing our process of listening to non-human sonic environments and its unfolding of narratives, which remain to large extends unexplainable and unreachable to us is starting point of the conceptual framework points of listening.
Tracing back the history of sound and listening with primary forests as one of the first sonic references of human beings, helps to comprehend that the disappearance of primeval forests means not only the loss of precious ecology, but with the quieting of its sounds, humans gradually loose one of their oldest collective memory.
Points of listening in this context is a contemplation on the fact that the crises or our time is not only environmental, but also perceptual. We are questioning why we decide to listen to something and try to understand what we are not listening to and why we are not doing it. We are bringing into our awareness that the dynamics of listening rooted in each individual, evolves from a personal, intimate matter into a social, ethical and political one.