In the past months, we have held LISTENING! at The Light and Shadow Salon and Deconstructing the Soundtrack, a two-day seminar, in collaboration with the LFS Workshops. These will be repeated in the coming year.

Below are the notices for last year's events.

THE LIGHT AND SHADOW SALON
presents
LISTENING!
curated by The School of Sound

Listen: to make the effort to hear something; to hear with attention

It is rare to listen as a group. Whether at a concert or the theatre, in a cinema, facing some sort of screen or out on the street, we have images to keep our hearing company.

This is an opportunity for an audience to listen, together, without pictures. To immerse themselves in unfamiliar worlds and strange stories; to confront unexpected emotions, feelings, impressions; to share the unseen with those around you – all through sound. Narrative, abstract, radio, sound art - LISTENING! extends from documentary to the surreal focusing particularly on the voice.

Selections by Scanner, Piers Plowright, Trevor Wishart, John Wynne, Antonin Artaud, Stan Freberg, the Firesign Theater, Werner Cee, Glenn Gould and others. With Larry Sider, Mark Peter Wright and Annabelle Pangborn in discussion.

THE HORSE HOSPITAL
Colonnade, Bloomsbury
London, WC1N 1JD
(£5 entry on the door

THE LIGHT & SHADOW SALON is a place for artists, writers and audience to meet and share ideas about the past, present and future of the moving image in all its forms. The Salon is a place for exchange, interaction and cross-pollination and it welcomes active contributions and interventions from all its participants.

DECONSTRUCTING the SOUNDTRACK:
A Seminar Series 
in Association with the London Film School
at the LFS, Covent Garden, London

The School of Sound is proud to collaborate with LFS Workshops on this new two-day seminar series. These seminars are aimed at those working in screen-based media, and offer three integrated perspectives on the use of sound and music in filmmaking.

Larry Sider, Annabelle Pangborn and Stephen Deutsch will each deliver a half-day seminar demonstrating the interrelationship between sound, music, image and story. The programme will include a discussion of strategies and concepts for working with sound and music, from pre- to post-production.

With particular relevance for directors, writers and producers as well as sound designers, editors and composers.

To find out more about the LFS Workshops