A+U: Binaural space with Lucie Páchová
Binaural Space is a workshop for creative recording, composing field recordings, and experimenting with amplified reality in everyday environments. From intimate, personal listening through headphones, we gradually move into a multi-channel space where sound becomes architecture and the body becomes its resonant component. We explore how the perception of space changes when the microphone becomes the ear, the speaker an active source of sound, and the listener both the trigger and receptor of the entire cycle.
The workshop is a space for discovery, sharing, and attention. It invites us into a world of frequencies, distances, textures, and silence, but also leads to a more sensitive deepening of our perception of the space that surrounds us every day. Extended ears are not a metaphor here, but a practice. Here, the ears expand into space, into the body, into objects, technologies, and imagination.
Lucie Páchová is interested in sound and listening in various contexts and formats. Her work is based on listening to and observing a given space, environment, its specifics, and participating elements. For her, sound is a relational and physical experience that she prefers to explore within a collective or community. Movement, everyday life, soundwalks, field recordings, listening to distant landscapes and nearby objects, people, and voices are frequent impulses for her work, whether sound collages, multichannel installations, chamber compositions, improvised situations, or performances. Musically, she is particularly active in her ensemble Talaqpo, where her instrument is her voice. As part of her doctoral research, she focuses on collective listening and improvisation in education.