SONIA LEBER & DAVID CHESWORTH – WHAT LISTENING KNOWS

3-screen Compile Compound

3-channel 4K UHD video, 5.1 audio, 11:30 minutes.

What Listening Knows creatively interrogates different concepts around the act of listening, as if listening were the primary mode of sensing the world.

Across three spectacular screens, the camera choreography is both grounded and ungrounded, imbued with an acoustic consciousness. Accompanied by a highly-detailed soundscape, the camera twists and tilts across lumpy hillsides, dips into an insect world, then levitates towards a tilted cloudy sky.

Individuals appear as field recordists, trailing microphones and recording devices through cornfields, scanning anthills and ancient trees.

But not all viewpoints are human. As the screens shift from macro to micro perspectives, we see that humans are perhaps not the only ones listening. Leber and Chesworth’s imagined environment is alive with hidden forces.

The project has been supported by an artist residency at Messums Wiltshire in the UK.

Filming, editing and sound design: Sonia Leber & David Chesworth

ClientSonia Leber & David ChesorthServicesColour GradingYear2020Linkhttp://www.leberandchesworth.com