Malaysian noise mavericks set to amp up Listening Biennial event


Academic and sound explorer Dr Kamal Sabran is part of the 'Sound And Politics' panel at the Sembang Bunyi Symposium in Multimedia University on July 29, which is set to investigate space as a political construct and how listening as a radical act to facilitate dialogue, understanding, and social transformation. Photo: Kamal Sabran

A symposium discussing the power and impact of sound will be held this Saturday at the Multimedia University in Cyberjaya.

Organised by the university’s Faculty of Creative Multimedia, the Sembang Bunyi Symposium is a satellite event of the second edition of the Listening Biennial, an international initiative that focuses on the act of listening from artistic and academic perspectives.

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