a generative exercise that invokes Pauline Oliveros principles of deep listening to create new surfaces for sounding and resounding your writing
Pauline Oliveros said that her meditations had a goal of “expanded consciousness” and “humanitarian purposes; specifically healing.”
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ARCHIVES, MILLS COLLEGE published in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/listening-as-activism-the-sonic-meditations-of-pauline-oliveros
Sounds carry intelligence. If you are too narrow in your awareness of sounds, you are likely to be disconnected from your environment. Ears do not listen to sounds; the brain does. Listening is a lifetime practice that depends on accumulated experiences with sound; it can be focused to detail or open to the entire field of sound.
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