Research & Listening Practices

Lobe facilitates research and education across disciplines and through institutional partnerships. Through this programming, Lobe collaborates with instructors and researchers whose work would benefit from precise, experiential access to 4DSOUND technology. Out of these sound-studies and intentional listening practices come opportunities for shared vocabularies around listening to further develop and move between disciplines. 

Considering the connection between contemplative practices and neuroscience, Lobe invites researchers to explore the role that acoustic information and intelligence plays in the human experience. Lobe promotes the creation of compositions that can be used as teaching tools or to support sustained active listening practices. 

Context Points:

• Experimental pedagogy

• Interdisciplinary exchanges 

• New methods and applications for spatial sound research

• Compositions that promote deeper listening skills and sustained practice

• Intersections between contemplative practice and neuroscience 

• Psychoacoustics 

• Affect theory 

• Otoacoustic emissions and infrasonics 

• Articulating in regards to, and by way of, intentional sensory engagement

Related Works: Lost Space // Orchid Mantis