PréludeMODES OF LISTENING1 Perceptual listening1.1 Object listening1.2 Causal listening1.3 Spatial listening1.4 Somatic listening2 Interpretive listening2.1 Semantic listening2.2 Musical listening2.3 Affective listening3 Contextual listening3.1 Expanded listening3.2 Intersubjective listening3.3 Critical listeningPRACTICES OF LISTENING1 Listening to spaces2 Walking and listening3 Listening with the body4 Listening to the umwelt5 Ethnographic listening6 Interspecies listening7 Surveillance listening8 Forensic listening9 Listening with tools10 Diagnostic listening11 Listening beyond human perception12 Listening to music13 Listening to silence14 Listening with the eyes15 Sacred listeningAfterthoughtEXERCISES OF LISTENING1 Objects2 Surfaces3 A space4 Hands5 The unspoken6 Imagined sound7 Feet8 A silent argument9 Silents thoughts10 Empty space11 Blindfold12 Whispers13 To wander14 A place15 Focus16 A stick17 Collective map18 Sounding in19 Sonic shadow20 A room21 Echoes22 Sensing a space23 Phantom sounds24 A sound is just a sound25 Cacti, leaves and stones26 A signal to move27 With my knee28 Resonance29 A coridor30 A chair31 The conversation32 The everyday33 Overlay34 Juxtaposition35 We meet on empty walls36 A real fake37 Sound objects38 A window39 After-sound40 Static41 After-image42 A memory43 At night44 Presence45 On the edge of hearing46 Sound walk47 Exquisite corpse48 A line49 Texture50 Sonic perspective51 Notation 1: space52 A lecture53 The unheard voice54 A place that no longer exists55 The song56 Call for action57 The interviewer’s shadow58 A secret59 A splash in the dark60 A map of echoes61 Funnel62 A resonant object63 A voice64 Between the words65 Notation 2: time66 Stretching our ears67 Inner spaceCHRONOLOGIESListenersMediographyABOUTPracticePublicationsArtistic researchListening locationsThanksColophonThe world is full of sound. This book opens your ears to it.Most of us hear without truly listening. But what is genuine listening?And Another Thing I Heard sets out to open your ears. Composer, artistic researcher and educator Esther Venrooij offers a rich map of the various ways we engage with sound: how it reaches the body before the mind, how it reveals space, and how it carries meaning and memory. Drawing on music, film, philosophy and fieldwork, the book moves from the reverberation of a mosque - where sound and belief are inseparable - to the echo of a parking garage, to Erich Fromm on listening as a form of love, to Spike Jonze's Her and the intimacy of a disembodied voice, and to Shoshana Zuboff's concept of surveillance capitalism.The book combines theoretic reflection with hands-on exercises for artists, architects, musicians, performers, artistic researchers, educators, and anyone else who is interested in genuinely listening. Listening, as it turns out, is not a background activity. It is how we meet the world.Most of us hear without truly listening. But what is genuine listening?And Another Thing I Heard sets out to open your ears. Composer, artistic researcher and educator Esther Venrooij offers a rich map of the various ways we engage with sound: how it reaches the body before the mind, how it reveals space, and how it carries meaning and memory. Drawing on music, film, philosophy and fieldwork, the book moves from the reverberation of a mosque – where sound and belief are inseparable – to the echo of a parking garage, to Erich Fromm on listening as a form of love, to Spike Jonze’s Her and the intimacy of a disembodied voice, and to Shoshana Zuboff’s concept of surveillance capitalism.The book combines theoretic reflection with hands-on exercises for artists, architects, musicians, performers, artistic researchers, educators, and anyone else who is interested in genuinely listening. Listening, as it turns out, is not a background activity. It is how we meet the world.