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Listening as Composition

One of the most distinctive compositional voices in contemporary electronic music, Jlin has built a singular practice entirely outside formal training and institutional pathways. In this masterclass, she reflects on how she actually listens: how she hears before she builds, how she returns to sounds that resist her, and how intuition, repetition, and constraint shape her process. Rather than focusing on technique in the traditional sense, the session explores listening as a form of composition - what it means to trust the ear over systems, and how an individual sonic language emerges through sustained attention and experimentation. Jlin shares insights from her practice, offering a rare window into how instinct, discipline, and refusal of convention have shaped her work.

Dates

Sessions

1 session

Duration

90 mins each

Level

All levels

Language

English

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Found Sound Nation
Found Sound Nation

Over the past 15 years, Found Sound Nation has worked with a diverse array of institutions and partners, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Doris Duke Foundation, TED, MIT, The New School, and many more, to create music-centered socially impactful programming. These initiatives - from songwriting workshops with incarcerated youth to music-making & listening seminars for MIT entrepreneurs - cemented our belief in the transformative potential of co-creation across geographic, cultural, and demographic boundaries. In 2012, we launched OneBeat, a groundbreaking music diplomacy program in partnership with the U.S. State Department. OneBeat brought together outstanding musicians from around the world to collaborate, create, and develop new models for civic and social engagement through music.

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