May 13, 2021
This three-part miniseries centers around Deep Listening®, the lifework of composer, musician, writer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros. Aspects of this creative and meditative practice are shared from the perspectives of Sharon Stewart, Tina Pearson and Lisa E. Harris, Deep Listening certificate-holders.
In the first mini-episode Sharon Stewart offers facets of her connection to Deep Listening along with some of the history of the practice, as related to the sonic environment – or the sonosphere – with pertinent excerpts from Oliveros’ text scores. Together with Sharon Stewart you can perform a seminal Sonic Meditation, number VIII: Environmental Dialogue.
Shownotes:
“Listening to
Deep Listening: Reflection on the 1988 Recording and the Lifework
of Pauline Oliveros”, by Sharon Stewart, Journal of Sonic
Studies, 2012
Excerpt from an essay from 2007 –
entitled My “American Music”: Soundscape, Politics, Technology,
Community. This essay can be found in the book Sounding
the Margins by Pauline Oliveros.
Excerpts from a 2006 article
“Improvisation in the Sonosphere” for Contemporary Music
Review. This essay can be found in the book Sounding
the Margins by Pauline Oliveros.
“Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound
Practice”.
The introduction details a short
conceptual story of the practice, followed by various exercises for
personal and group practice and process training, a number of Deep
Listening Scores and questions and concluding with an Appendix of
essays written by participants.
∞ = 0 poem
by Pauline Oliveros, printed in
The Roots of the Moment (1998: 27).
“Pauline
Oliveros”
at Red Bull Music Academy, Hosted by Hanna
Bächer
Pauline Oliveros,
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice, 2005. New
York: iUniverse, Inc.
Deep Listening Album 1989 with Pauline Oliveros, Stuart
Dempster and Panaiotis
TEDx Talk 2015 The difference
between hearing and listening | Pauline Oliveros |
TEDxIndianapolis
The Center for Deep Listening
at Rensselaer (RPI)
Deep
Listening® Retreats
Anthology of Text Scores by Pauline Oliveros (2013)
Deep Listening Publications
“VII: Environmental Dialogue” from
Sonic Meditations by Pauline Oliveros (1971) Smith
Publications
Excerpts from "Healing Dream Mandala:
Beehive version," by IONE and "Slow Walk, Slow Song" by Pauline
Oliveros, led by Jennifer Wilsey, at the Ratna Ling Deep
Listening® Retreat in 2018. Both recordings were made and
edited by Sharon Stewart.
Sounding Places - Listening Places was commissioned by ArtEZ Studium Generale. Interviews, texts and voice overs by Sharon Stewart and Joep Christenhusz. It is produced by Ondercast for Studium Generale ArtEZ. Studium Generale curator for this series: Catelijne de Muijnck