opensound.network is a series of sound performance-installations in open spaces, centred around collective listening experiences. They are born out of a research-based process which brings the location and its ecology (acoustic and otherwise) to the centre. The acoustics of the space itself become central to the listening experience, with the space emerging as a primary collaborator and co-creator.

opensound.network values listening experiences as a means of connecting to open spaces with deeper attention, offering a space and time for deeper listening, understanding, and experiencing. It is an opportunity to bring people together, find restful space, and discover alternate means of connecting to our non-human ecological counterparts.

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OSN x    Far From Somewhere


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Dear friends in listening,

We hope this finds you well. This is an invitation to sign up for a shared practice of exploring embodied listening together, on Sunday 27th October. 

As opensound.network, we are interested in exploring listening as a shared practice of connection with our environment, offering a time-space for being and experiencing. For us, it is an opportunity to come together, find a moment of rest, and uncover relationships within ourselves and our ecological counterparts.

Sonically, we bring together music, field recordings, archive and live sounds, to create a mix which brings a space: its sonic ecology, architecture and surrounding narratives – to the centre. We desire to engage with listening as a means of spatial, ecological and bodily attunement and awareness.

This Sunday, we will meet at this location in Buskett at 4PM: https://maps.app.goo.gl/SGoBUnGrUajQ5cnR6

Here, we will introduce and share some thoughts about the practice of listening. From there, we will come together and take a short and quiet walk, arriving and landing together in another space in Buskett. Kindly arrive on time.

During this time, we would like to become curious about the following: the weather, the change in weather, body and emotional weather, softness, fluidity, openness, and openness to change.

How can listening become an anchor for resting within an honest present?

We will have some blankets and refreshments for all. Feel free to bring anything which will help you find more comfort within the space. We recommend warm and comfortable clothes.

Kindly confirm if you will be joining us by sending us an email at contact@opensound.network. We’re looking forward to sharing this time together. 

Warm wishes,

opensound.network

Elisa von Brockdorff

OSN x    R Gallery


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Footsteps, motorbikes, metal poles, wind: OSN is investigating night-time city sounds. Facilitated by music, field recording, live composition, archival sound and text contributions by Noah Fabri, this is an exploration of the late-night Sliema lullaby.

R Gallery’s international group show Oikos Logia explored the dysfunctional relationship between humans and habitat. Here, OSN searches to rediscover the urban habitat and its unique interferences and resonances, moving through its sonic landscape with open and attuned ears first.


OSN02A/02B    Buskett


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Developed from a fascination around the life cycle of the cicada, two listening sessions were held in Buskett. The natural architecture of the space and upward movement of the cicada came to inspire an exploration of spatial sound, in which a soundscape of cicada song, field recordings and archive audio was emitted from surrounding trees and bushes. Woody, terrestrial sounds were picked up from the space and sent into the system, spiralling above and around the participants’ heads.


OSN01    Għar Neffied


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Immersing participants into the aquatic world of Għar Neffied, a pair of speakers were placed into a resonant cave, and a second pair into the arch opposite. Bringing together field recordings, archive sound, watery melodies and FM radio transmission, participants were immersed into an exploration of sound, amplified and transformed by resonant spaces. Bouncing and travelling between water and rocks, the rhythm of the sea was picked up by microphones, and fed back into the system.

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