The School of Listening is an initiative promoted by the Millennium Nucleus in Musical and Sound Cultures that seeks to develop methodologies for the dissemination and transfer of social research based on sound, music, and listening. This program is aimed at educational communities located in three macro-regions of the country: north (Arica), center (Santiago and Valparaíso) and south (Araucanía).
The project consists of an initial phase of workshops aimed at secondary school students from first to fourth year, focusing on three thematic areas: Environment and Territory, Migration and Citizenship, and Culture and Gender Relations.
The School of Listening hopes that these workshops will not only develop critical listening skills in students, but also foster a greater connection with their social and natural environment.
This educational initiative has been running its pilot program during the first half of 2024, through six workshops implemented in four regions of the country. Each workshop explores different aural experiences, such as listening, sound memory, sonic futures, and the communication of these recordings.
In Arica, the workshop was held at the Antonio Varas High School in La Barra B4; in the Metropolitan Region, at the Pablo Neruda Bicentennial High School in Lo Prado and at the O’Higgins School in Melipilla; in the Valparaíso Region, at the Maitencillo School and the Andrés Bello Industrial School in Quilpué; and in Temuco, at the Gracia y Paz School.
This methodology seeks to be adaptable for different researchers and educational purposes, exploring the possibilities of sound and collective listening for social research and community reflection, and for this reason we have provided the teaching materials here so they can be downloaded and used by the entire community.