Listening Room is an exhibition where soundworks are presented on an octophonic surround soundsystem. Housed in the glass pavilion of Zone2Source in Amstelpark, it invites visitors to listen with their whole bodies – to engage with the immersive, relational, and ecological qualities of spatial sound. Think of the exhibition as cinema for the ears: an inward journey shared with others.

Please note that the works are not performed live, but exhibited in an 8.2-channel setup. A single purchased ticket is valid for any Listening Room programme – the tickets are not marked by date or time!

Timetable

Leilehua Lanzilotti – beyond the accident of time, 2026, 20 min
Leslie García – Saturn Spectrums, 2025, 20 min
KMRU & Aho Ssan – Still – Fold, 2026, 20 min

Leilehua Lanzilotti’s beyond the accident of time layers voices and bells into a resonant structure, its tones swelling, colliding, and fading into luminous stillness. Inspired by Isamu Noguchi’s never fully realised Bell Tower for Hiroshima – a memorial sculpture that imagined bells gathered from across the world – the work treats the sculpture as a sonic idea that can be created anywhere through shared acts of listening. This rendition brings together recordings from performances in Chicago, New York, Tokyo, and the UK, along with field recordings from artists and community members.

Saturn Spectrums moves through the extensive tape archive of Sun Ra – the visionary jazz bandleader and Afrofuturist philosopher who treated sound as a pathway to other worlds. Leslie García listens at the edges of the tapes: rehearsal air, radio hiss, phrases warming up, silences where thought gathers, and then expands them through spectral resynthesis and neural audio modelling. Breaths become tones, pauses form rhythm, the tape’s own instability grows into architecture. The mood is hushed and cosmic, like eavesdropping on a universe assembling itself from residue.

Still – Fold by KMRU & Aho Ssan is conceived as a sonic landscape shaped by a silent shift, a world where the event has vanished, yet its vibrations continue to resonate. The piece does not seek to describe what happened, but explores what remains: traces, after images, and unstable signals that move between presence and disappearance. Drawing inspiration from the way filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul reveals overlapping layers of the visible and invisible, and from the haunting atmospheres of Todd Hido’s photographs, Still – Fold drifts as a territory in suspension. Sound oscillates like a substance emerging, folding, and dissolving, as if the landscape were trying to recall its own contours.