Listening Salon is a suitably hair-raising double bill of works from multidisciplinary artist Emma Diamond and sound artist Beth Robertson.
hair.wav // Emma Diamond
hair.wav is an immersive audio-visual short film by Emma Diamond, centred on the tactile and sonic world of hair. Originally developed as part of Diamond’s multimedia exhibition of the same name at Listen Gallery, the work began as a sound collaboration with Loris S Sarid, using recordings of Emma cutting hair. Through subtle manipulations of pitch and time, raw textures unfold into melodic, unexpected tones. The film’s visuals, created with Jordan Macrae, magnify strands, prisms and water into shifting abstract landscapes – intimate worlds for sound to inhabit. Embracing in-camera spontaneity and minimal post-production, hair.wav invites audiences into a quiet, sensory dialogue between material, movement and sound.
Parlour of Psithurism // Beth Robertson
Parlour of Psithurism is a sound installation by artist Beth Robertson that explores the feminist nature of ecology, transforming repurposed hairdryer hoods into playful, intimate listening spaces. Psithurism – the sound of wind whispering through trees, from the Greek word for ‘whisper’ – is brought to life through recordings of Scotland’s temperate rainforests, played through speakers embedded within each hood. By reimagining the familiar setting of the salon as a site of care and conversation, Robertson invites audiences to listen closely to these soughing, tree-borne voices as if they were companions to nurture, learn from, care for and build communities with.
