Sound Studies and Aural Cultures

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Alex De Little is a sonic artist and researcher with bases in Leeds and London, UK. His practice encompasses installation, composition, performance and workshops; it is concerned with the interrogation of listening as a practice of world-making -a way of thinking into and through environments, notions of self, and social relations.

Selected Exhibitions

  • Solstice ’93 (with Laura Grace Ford) – Dorich House, London (2022)
  • Driving the Human (with Sonic Acts of Noticing) – Radialsystem, Berlin (2021)
  • Sonic Boom – National Science and Media Museum, Bradford (2021)
  • Garden of Privatised Delights (with Studio Polpo)– British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2021)
  • Tomorrow is Our Permanent Address – East Street Arts, Convention House, Leeds (2019)
  • Above the Noise – National Science and Media Museum, Bradford (2019) 
  • Alternate Languages: Confronting Boundaries – Royal Academy of Arts, London (2019)
  • Biorhythm – Health Museum, Houston TX, USA (2018)
  • Kosmologym – Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2018)
  • Supersenses – National Science and Media Museum, Bradford (2017)
  • …the etiquette to keep still is similar to playing dead… – Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds (2016)

Ways of Listening is an event series that invites audiences on sonic explorations in order to practice the act of listening and uncover the ways in which it can define relationships to self, others, and spatial environments. These events exist somewhere between concert, workshop and exhibition; they invite active listening by presenting works by artists that engage ear and body in diverse ways.

I am very interested in his activity of ways of listening. I found it is a really good experience of listening that I could bring to collaborations-dancers. Firstly the physical movements to focus on would be helpful in ways of listening, either you are lying down, standing up, or shaking your body. What else? when you are wearing headphones and humming, it would definitely sound different. The space you are in is also critical. The girl who is wearing the sounding clothes is very inspiring to me.