Summoning Voices: A conversation with Leonie Roessler
A conversation with Leonie Roessler that took place during the
Summoning voices - A radio symposium on feminist world making July
8-9.23 in Goethe Institut Rotterdam and at radioecho.net In the
conversation you can hear Leonie talking about her sonic and
artistic journey, her pieces “On Creativity during Pregnancy”, “On
Creativity during the Postpartum Period” and “On Art, Disability,
Barriers, and Chances” and her creative processes.
Leonie captures her environment through field recordings, which she
uses for radio pieces, sound installations, and compositions for
soloists and ensembles. She runs the radio branch of Studio LOOS in
The Hague and is a co-producer of Iranian Music Label Noise à Noise
along with Soheil Soheili. Her music has been performed/installed
globally. Right now her installation Kalpit’s Kitchen can be heard
at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India. Leonie holds Bachelor Degree
in Composition from Los Angeles City College along with a Minor in
Dance Performance from California State University Northridge, a
Master’s Degree in Composition from the Royal Conservatory of The
Hague in 2013. She completed a one-year course at the Institute of
Sonology. She finished the Contemporary Music Through Non-Western
Techniques Program at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
https://leonieroessler.com/projects/radio-loos/
Summoning voices - A radio symposium on feminist world making
Words make language, language makes stories, and stories make worlds
Radio Echo is summoning a diversity of voices of storytellers,
artists, radio makers, community builders, researchers and activists
during a two day radio symposium, online at our radio platform and
physically at the Goethe Institut Rotterdam. Through a series of
conversations, dj sets and vocal experimentations that weave a
multilayered broadcast that touches upon methods to reimagine the
realities that define our lives. With it we challenge normative
understandings of being together and compose a web of solidarity
amongst our communities. We aim to provide a space where many
disciplines can intersect, nurture each other and find a channel to
influence the world with a touch of our magic.