Decolonising Listening

Explore listening as a decolonial and embodied practice in this workshop led by Jamie Perera.  

You are invited to examine how their listening has been shaped by colonial, extractive, and disembodied frameworks—and how you might unlearn, rewild, and return to listening as an act of relationality, responsibility, and becoming.  

Through guided listening exercises, environmental explorations, journaling, and group dialogue, we will feel into how listening can be reframed as a practice of reciprocity with place, community, and self, moving beyond Western cognitive models toward embodied, collective, and ecological listening.  

About the contributor:

Jamie Perera, Asian mixed heritage composer, sound artist and producer from East London.

About the Symposium:

The Sound and Environment Symposium has been organised by Newcastle University’s Sound + Environment Research Group, exploring the ways sound can deepen our understanding of environments and the communities inhabiting them.