Deep Listening Lab
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What is Deep Listening?
Deep Listening® is a practice developed by pioneering musician and composer Pauline Oliveros, along with some of her lifetime collaborators, such as Ione and Heloise Gold.
Deep Listening is, in Oliveros’ words, “a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible, to hear no matter what you are doing”.
Today the Center for Deep Listening stewards, fosters and disseminates this practice, in addition to promoting creative and artistic innovation associated to Deep Listening.
How does Deep Listening sound like?
When we practice Deep Listening we seek to explore the difference between the involuntary nature of listening and the voluntary, selective nature of listening.
The practice includes body movement, sonic meditations and performative experimentations, as well as listening to the sounds of everyday life, nature, thoughts, imagination and dreams.
In this way, we cultivate a greater awareness of our sound environments –both external and internal– and we engage with improvisation, collaboration, play and other creative skills vital for our personal and community growth.
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¿Qué es Deep Listening?
Deep Listening® o Escucha Profunda es una práctica desarrollada por la compositora y pionera de la música electrónica Pauline Oliveros, junto a sus grandes colaboradoras, Ione y Heloise Gold.
La escucha profunda es, en palabras de Oliveros, “escuchar de todas las formas posibles todo lo posible para escuchar sin importar lo que estés haciendo”.
A día de hoy, el Center for Deep Listening cuida, fomenta y difunde esta práctica, además de promover la innovación creativa y artística asociada a la escucha profunda.
¿Cómo suena Deep Listening?
Cuando practicamos la escucha profunda buscamos explorar la diferencia entre la naturaleza involuntaria de la escucha y la naturaleza voluntaria y selectiva de la escucha.
La práctica incluye cuerpo y movimiento, meditaciones sónicas y experimentos performativos, así como escuchar los sonidos de la vida cotidiana, la naturaleza, los pensamientos, imaginación o sueños.
De esta manera, cultivamos una mayor conciencia de nuestros entornos sonoros –tanto externos como internos– y nos zambullimos en la improvisación, la colaboración, el juego y otras habilidades creativas vitales para nuestro crecimiento personal y comunitario.
“Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears.”
Pauline Oliveros
Deep Listening Lab is a space to explore the practice of Deep Listening. Usually spaced in several sessions, we slowly dive into the fundamentals of listening awareness, as well as sounding, moving our bodies and dreaming together.
If you are interested in the next Deep Listening Lab please drop a line to felinavarro.ooo@gmail.com and I will keep you informed, thank you!
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If you are interested in the next Deep Listening Lab please drop a line to felinavarro.ooo@gmail.com and I will keep you informed, thank you!
Feli Navarro is a certified
Deep Listening® facilitator by the Center for Deep Listening