Bill Dietz

To mark the end of her Sounds Like Home: Listening Gardens project, Alisa Oleva has commissioned a collection of reflective texts, with contributions from Bill Dietz, Nele Möller and Compass’ own Jennie Gilman, and designed by Dasha Podoltseva. Listening Gardens was a continuation of a collaboration between Alisa and Dasha Zakharets, from Kamianske, Ukraine, and now based in Leeds. Over a month at Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, Alisa facilitated a connection with Kamianske via an outdoor listening station designed by Soundcamp, live streaming audio from a twinned location thousands of miles away. The sounds were live streaming from Dasha’s cherished family cottage – a place she hasn’t been since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The soundbox was taken care of in Ukraine by Dasha’s parents – Oksana and Ivan Zakharets. 🔗Read the texts via link in the bio!

WEDS 8 APRIL: AL KARPENTER + BILL DIETZ + TRIPLE NEGATIVE Born in the Basque Country’s experimental underworld and raised on no wave, noise, improvisation and dissent, Al Karpenter fuse improvisation/free jazz, Afrobeat, computer music and garage punk into a strange sonic world. Disembodied vocals, fractured rhythms and blistering textures meet a music that feels both unstable and exacting at once. Bill Dietz mainly listens to music at home, and makes music to be listened to at home, with “home” understood as the intimate internalization of structural violence. For this event he adapts new music from his forthcoming Room40 record to Cafe OTO’s room. Triple Negative are a London-based three-piece whose work on Penultimate Press moves through chaos and beauty, humour, spite, rhythm, song, balladry and nerve. Built around voices and percussion but never neatly contained by either, their music sways between audacious rhythmic passages, mean melodies and blown-out textures, always sounding thrillingly close to collapse without losing its shape. Organised in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes Londres. 🎟️ £17 door / £15 advance / £10 members → Tickets via link in stories and cafeoto.co.uk → Doors 7:30pm

Monday. March 9th, 2026. 11:59PM. 23:59. Edge of midnight. 👥

Please join us at the Whitney Museum of Art on Monday, March 9th at 6:30pm for an evening with artist Aki Onda (@akionda_official ) in conversation with composer and writer Bill Dietz (@blldtz ) and art historian Patrick Flores. Onda will share ongoing research on Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist José Maceda as part of their contribution to the Whitney Biennial 2026. Onda will discuss Maceda’s project “Ugnayan, Music for Twenty Radio Stations” (1974), a large-scale work broadcast simultaneously across Manila. The presentation will address the socio-political dimensions of the composition, particularly its relationship to the Marcos regime. In conversation with composer and writer Bill Dietz and art historian Patrick Flores, Onda will further situate Maceda’s practice within the context of the twentieth-century international avant-garde, while addressing its entanglement with the historical narratives of the Philippines. This program is presented in partnership with The Whitney Museum of American Art and will be hosted at the Whitney Museum’s third floor theater space and via Zoom. Friends of AAAinA will be offered a discount code for this program. To receive the discount code, please email [email protected]

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Sticky Bits (everything-that-got-stuck-in-my-head) (from/against/because) 25 is in link places.

(wasn't going to, but as it's the first time back in this place since...stuff, reposting away! ⭕🪴⭕) // 💿🐴 Two talks at Winona... Wednesday November 12, 19h00 Avenue Louise 195, 1000 Brussels In collaboration with the Negotiating Realities research cluster at KASK & Conservatium, Winona is pleased to invite Marija Cetinić and Bill Dietz for two talks at Winona. RECURSION, ABJECTION, NEGATIVITY AND AN ANTI-FASCIST RECEPTIVITY IN "THE ORDINARY." Talks begin at 7-8.30 pm. Our current exhibition 'Friends & Neighbours' will be open from 6pm. - Marija Cetinic works as Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, coordinates the MA Comparative Literature, and is a researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis. She is a founding member of the research group Sex Negativity and runs the seminar series We Have Never Had Sex. At Sandberg Institute, she teaches in the MA Critical Studies. At Perdu, center for poetry and experiment, she is a member of the programming collective. She co-organizes the (Trans--) Sexualities + Psychoanalysis Summer School. Her current research is on negativity and feminization. Bill Dietz is a composer and writer, born in Arizona. His work on genealogies of reception and the "political aesthetics of listening" is often presented in festivals, museums, and academic journals, but also in apartment buildings, magazines, and on public streets. Alongside his artistic work, he has served as artistic director of Ensemble Zwischentöne (2006-2014) and Overtoon - Platform for Sound Practitioners (2022-2025), and has continually served on the board of the Maryanne Amacher Foundation since its inception. In 2013, he co-founded Ear Wave Event with Woody Sullender. With Amy Cimini, he co-edited Maryanne Amacher: Selected Writings and Interviews (2020), and he is co-author, with Kerstin Stakemeier, of Universal Receptivity (2021). He has been co-chair of the Music/Sound discipline in Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts since 2012. - Two talks... is the first event in 'More Than This', a series of talks & events organised by Negotiating Realities, one of five research clusters

👂🏻 Join us on Thursday, October 2nd for the continuation of the concert series: Refining the Third Ear! 🎶 Dive into works that transform the act of listening into an instrument itself. Inspired by the late composer Maryanne Amacher, these performances explore how sound reshapes perception, imagination, and emotion. ⏰ Show at 7:00 PM | 🚪 Doors at 6:30 PM 🎫 $15 Presale | $20 at the door Swipe to meet the composers featured in our program: • Micah Schippa-Wildfong • Bill Dietz • Itsï Ramirez • Bret Schneider Grab your tickets now at the link in bio 🔗 #imssprograms #ThirdEar #MaryanneAmacher #Psychoacoustics #SoundArt #AvantGardeMusic #ExperimentalMusic #ChicagoEvents #NewMusic #ContemporaryMusic #ListeningAsArt #SoundInstallation #ImmersiveSound #ChicagoArtScene #ArtAndSound #SonicArt #ConcertSeries #LiveMusicChicago #AcousticPhenomena #MuseumEvents #SoundExperiments

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On 28 September, the last day of our exhibition »The Shaker. A World in the Making«, we invite you to a special participatory rehearsal by Bill Dietz and Hong-Kai Wang »Singing is what makes work possible«. Together, we will discover Shaker Songs and engage with the legacy of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson during a public walk.⁠ ⁠ Since Fall 2018, Bill Dietz & Hong-Kai Wang have been engaged in an iterative investigation into the relations between song, labor, and value. Dietz & Wang have pursued the practice of Shaker Song at its most radical, »era of manifestations« height. For »The Shaker. A World in the Making« Dietz & Wang offer a public rehearsal asking if and how we might feel toward remaining material traces of Shaker song and geography.⁠ ⁠ More information - link in bio⁠ ⁠ @meahoffmann @milwaukeeart @icaphiladelphia @wuestenrotstiftung @shakermuseum #vitradesignmuseum #shaker #shakerdesign #design #art #architecture #designexhibition #exhibition #designhistory #designresearch #designer #vitracampus #museum #museenbasel #baselmuseums #thisisbasel #basel #weilamrhein⁠ ⁠ Image: Between 491 Lombard Street and China Town, Philadelphia, during Dietz and Wang's March 20th, 2019 "Listening for Rebecca Jackson", photo: Hong-Kai Wang

New book out now: Répondeur by Slow Reading Club Slow Reading Club is a semi-fictional reading group initiated and run by Bryana Fritz and Henry Andersen. Répondeur records their practice in collective reading sessions, exhibitions, and textual bootlegging. Imagined as a scroll, with a rhyme structure and typesetting by Will Holder, the book brings together new writing by Alicja Melzacka, Joyelle McSweeney and Bill Dietz, and visual work by Slow Reading Club. Join us at the book launch Friday 12 September, 7pm Readings by Slow Reading Club, Will Holder and Alicja Melzacka with Daniel Dariel on drums at rile*books, Brussels @rile.books

I guess I'm thankful that whatever shred of "criticality" credibility "Neue Musik" might still have had fully evaporated this week 🤷🏼‍♂️ But moreso I'm thankful that we were able to share an evening with the beautiful work of @tornasolunariz_ada [02] And I'm thankful to have gotten to know a bit of the wonderful work of @darmstadt_4_palestine [01, 04, 06] And I can never be thankful enough for @amymariecimini & #EmilyMoore [05, 07] And RIGHT NOW I'm thankful to be boarding a plane 🪴⚡