Two Hundred Tapes and a box of a Thousand Papers

Fringe Festival at Likeminds, Amsterdam, 2022
The Listening Project

Who do you listen to? How do you listen? Does your echo sound the same as mine? What can we hear on the tapes of the past that have produced the sound of the future? A music theater performance by Rosa Ronsdorf, Roos Pollmann, Rosalie Wammes in collaboration with 5 reel-to-reel players, each with their own character in speed, clarity, extra noise, etc. Our starting point was the life of composer Delia Derbyshire and the feminist voices in electronic music that remained hidden in history books. We told her story through found tapes and new compositions inspired by her work.