Listening Session

Learning to Listen

Every month, the ADKDW invites you to a joint listening session at the Kompakt Record Store of the legendary Cologne label for electronic music. In each session, an invited guest will play selected songs, song fragments, or instrumentals and discusses them from a personal, music-historical, and/or political point of view.

In the second half of 2024, we will be hosting the MC, DJ and music producer Kurt Tallert, the artist and publisher Leah-Lilith Heeren, the curator and artist Lisa Klosterkötter and the musician Lucas Croon.

For the first half of 2024, Learning to Listen hosted the following guests: the musician and producer Keshav Purushotam, artist Andreas Maus, the artist- and directors duo Miriam Gossing & Lina Sieckmann, the musician Polypixa, the artist Jody Korbach, and the artist and musician Chris Korda.

Up until now, guests of Learning to Listen have been:
Shelly Quest (to the playlist)
Julius Vapiano (to the playlist)
Yilmaz Dziewior (to the playlist)
Aneta Rostkowska (to the playlist)
Elisa Metz (to the playlist)
Carmen Strzelecki (to the playlist)
Şeyda Kurt
Yvan Hervé Butera
Michael Mayer
Nanette Snoep
Dima Oboukhov
Jordan Chanetsa
Fatima Khan (to the playlist)
Leah-Lilith Heeren und Sascha Ehlert (to the playlist)

You can find all available playlists of past events on Spotify!

Learning to Listen Series
In radio broadcasts, podcasts and live events, Learning to Listen deals with forms of listening and non-listening - and the knowledge that can be drawn from them. The main aim of Learning to Listen is to initiate didactic processes intended to help us understand why certain sounds, songs, and narratives are heard and others are not. Together we will reflect on our internalized ways of thinking, of learning to listen and to un-learn.