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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice

by Pauline Oliveros

Listening as a deliberate practice

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Listening as a deliberate practice

Composer Pauline Oliveros presents Deep Listening as a set of practices for attending to sound and the surrounding sonic environment. The book connects listening with sounding, offering material for creative engagement as well as reflection on how focused attention can shape awareness. Its approach is described as accessible to people with or without musical training, and the source notes that participants in Oliveros’s classes have used the practices in creative sound projects. The emphasis is on listening not simply as a passive act, but as something that can be explored and developed through intentional practice.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People interested in developing their listening skills
  • Artists, students, and teachers exploring sound-based practice
  • Readers curious about music appreciation and creative sound projects

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Deep listeningSound and attentionCreative sound practiceMusic education

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Book overview

Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, mediators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic environment.

Deep Listening(R) is a practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros in order to enhance her own as well as other's listening skills. She teaches this practice worldwide in workshops, retreats and in her ground breaking Deep Listening classes at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Mills College. Deep Listening practice is accessible to anyone with an interest in listening. Undergraduates with no musical training benefit from the practices and successfully engage in creative sound projects. Many report life changing effects from participating in the Deep Listening classes and retreats.

Oliveros is recognized as a pioneer in electronic music and a leader in contemporary music as composer, performer, educator and author. Her works are performed internationally and her improvisational performances are documented extensively on recordings, in the literature and on the worldwide web.

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