Listening at Depth
Sep 2023
When the composer and music theorist Pauline Oliveros wrote her book Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice, she sought to bring to our attention the symbiotic relationship between sound and its surroundings. “As you listen, the particles of sound decide to be heard,”as she poetically put it. She defined “deep listening” as the heightened state of awareness that connects to all there is — the act of listening to more than one reality simultaneously.
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