Listening with the Body: A Harp Journey | Alice Giles and Moran Wiesel

Celebrating a resonance between sound & body

Listening with the Body is a 1.5 hour journey through the powerfully moving resonances of the harp. Together Alice and Moran create a space for the audience to explore the art of listening, with guided movement and meditation, and a full harp program.

Moran draws on meditative and sensory awareness practices to help us listen in a deeply embodied way to the harp, our inner worlds, each other, and the music. This creates the freedom for the audience to move around the room and the harp if they wish, or to sit and feel within themselves the sound, colour, and complex patterns of Alice’s harp playing.

The musical program is rich and varied, including Bach, Fauré, Debussy, the contemporary Australian composer Mary Doumany, and some improvisation. The program runs without applause and in the round with minimal seating, to enhance the immersive experience. Each program adapts and responds to individual audiences, making Listening with the Body a collaboration between listener and performer.

Audience Reviews for Listening with the Body

"The resonating vibrational elements of Alice's performance on the harp created a unique heightened experience for me, not as the passive listener but the receiver and respondent of those vibrations. The bowing and voicing tonal qualities felt so natural and made so much sense to me!"

"At times I was so mesmerised by Alice's playing that I also stayed quite still. I wanted to observe and listen and that felt fine. The fact that I wasn't sitting in a concert hall seat made a huge difference!"

 "You are breaking new ground Moran, and breaking old barriers ... the paradigm of change!"

"Thank you both so much for such a glorious and soul nourishing experience last evening. It was very special."

Alice Giles and Moran Wiesel are a heart-warming mother/daughter collaboration. Their focus is on merging disciplines, collaborating on a range of performance projects, including the Musica Viva in Schools Adventure in Antarctica show. They have forged a strong on-stage bond and extensive experience in responding to an audience in the moment. Alice and Moran will tour Listening with the Body as a featured Musica Viva Regional Touring Artist for 2024.

See more of Moran’s work here.

Further information on technical specifications here.

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