Listening Sessions at Duke
Thursday nights | the Ark
A space to listen to and move through music together
Programming Schedule
-pressing play at 8pm-
***On summer break! Check back soon!***
-Past-
Session XLI: May 8, 2025
Vashti Bunyan / Animal Collective, Prospect Hummer
Dorothy Carter, Troubadour
Joanna Newsom, Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band
Session XL: April 30, 2025
George Crumb, Makrokosmos Volumes I-III
Session XXXIX: April 10, 2025
Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, The World of Kurt Weill
Cecil Taylor, Jazz Advance
Session XXXVIII: March 26, 2025
Doechii, Alligator Bites Never Heal
Tyler, The Creator, CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST
Session XXXVII: March 6, 2025
Burna Boy, Outside
Fela Kuti, Zombie
Session XXXVI: February 20, 2025
Aphex Twin, Drukqs
Session XXXV: February 13, 2025
Max Richter, From Sleep
Session XXXIV: January 29, 2025 - Dance Party Edition!
Kaytranada, 2011 Montreal Boiler Room
Session XXXIII: January 22, 2025
Brian Harnetty, Shawnee, Ohio
Julia Wolfe, Anthracite Fields
Session XXXII: January 15, 2025
Ms. Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
FKA twigs, MAGDALENE
Session XXXI: December 2, 2024
Sinéad O’Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
Prince, Purple Rain
Session XXX: November 25, 2024
Devin Maxwell, Timebending
Lana Del Rey, Norman Fucking Rockwell
Session XXIX: November 18, 2024
Keeley Forsyth, The Hollow
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
Session XXVIII: November 11, 2024
Kate Soper, Ipsa Dixit
Session XXVII: October 28, 2024
Burial, Untrue
Franz Schubert, Death and the Maiden
Session XXVI: October 21, 2024
Dua Saleh, I SHOULD CALL THEM
Nilüfer Yanya, My Method Actor
Session XXV: October 7, 2024
Camarón de la Isla, La leyenda del tiempo
C. Tangana, El Madrileño
Session XXIV: September 30, 2024
Sun Ra, The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Henry Thomas, Texas Worried Blues
Session XXIII: September 23, 2024
Charmaine Lee, KNVF
Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
Session XXII: September 16, 2024
Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer (film)
Tierra Whack, Whack World (visual album)
Session XXI: September 9, 2024
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Wild God
Cocteau Twins, Heaven or Las Vegas
Session XX: September 2, 2024
John Coltrane, One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note (disc 1)
T.M. Krishna, Sheik Mahaboob Subhani, and Kaleeshabi Mahaboob, Jagadodharana - Ragam Kapi
Bernard Woma, Live at the Pito Bar
*guest curated by Jake Richter
Session XIX: April 21, 2024
Claude Debussy, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Pink Floyd, The Wall
Run-DMC, Raising Hell
Session XVIII: March 25, 2024
Billie Holiday, Lady Sings the Blues
Portishead, Roseland NYC Live
Session XVII: March 18, 2024
Patti Smith, Horses
Info for Attendees
Session XVI: March 4, 2024
Tobias Picker and Konzert und Theater St. Gallen, Lili Elbe
Session XV: February 26, 2024
Bauhaus, In the Flat Field
Courtney Bryan, Requiem
Brìghde Chaimbeul, Carry Them With Us
Session XIV: February 19, 2024
Phill Niblock, Young Person’s Guide to Phill Niblock
Session XIII: February 5, 2024
Silvana Estrada, Marchita
Sade, Lovers Rock
Session XII: January 29, 2024
Federico García Lorca, selected poetry readings
Townes Van Zandt, Townes Van Zandt
Chavela Vargas, La Luna Grande: Homenaje a Federico García Lorca
Session XI: January 17, 2024
Robert Ashley, Perfect Lives
Session X: January 10, 2024
Bad Bunny, YHLQMDLG
Beyoncé, Renaissance
Session IX: December 7, 2023
Kate Bush, The Ninth Wave
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 9
Session VIII: November 29, 2023
Lankum, False Lankum
Lisa O’Neill, All Of This Is Chance
Session VII: November 14, 2023
Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer, and Shahzad Ismaily, Love in Exile
Caroline Polachek, Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
Session VI: November 9, 2023
Saul Williams, Neptune Frost
(film screening)
Session V: November 2, 2023
Raven Chacon, Live from Alcatraz and Voiceless Mass
Parchman Prison Prayer, Some Mississippi Sunday Morning
Session IV: October 26, 2023
Cornelius Cardew and The Scratch Orchestra, The Great Learning (Paragraphs 2 and 7)
Brian Eno, Another Green World
Session III: October 19, 2023
Diamanda Galás, The Litanies of Satan
Béla Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle
Session II: October 12, 2023
SOPHIE, Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
Julius Eastman, Feminine
Session I: September 10, 2023
Éliane Radigue, Trilogie de la Mort
Facilitated by MFA-EIP student Indigo Cook
Every Thursday evening at 8pm, unless otherwise noted
Programming typically lasts about 2 hours. Come for the first five minutes, the last five, or any duration in between
The Ark is located on East Campus at 14 Epworth Dorm Lane
Listen in the way that feels best for you - sitting, walking, dancing, lying facedown on the ground - and be respectful of the choices others make
Programming announced here and on our Instagram account, @DukeListeningSessions
(recommendations always welcome!)
The Ark is an ADA accessible building by entering on the bottom floor and taking the elevator up to the main floor
Music and lighting can range in volume and intensity. Please reach out if you would like to attend and need any sensory accommodations
Contact indigo.cook@duke.edu with any questions
