"‘When you listen, something will happen’ is one of the many intriguing invitations that Pauline Oliveros, composer, educator, humanitarian and creator of the Deep Listening practice, makes to her students.
PoL invites you to experience your deepest point of listening, as an inner departure to explore your sonic Universe and embrace it. Through energy building exercises, listening meditations, and sounding, you will be guided to experience inner and outer listening, to expand your awareness of sound as it travels in time and space, encountering many possible audible forms, beyond ordinary sound perceptions in daily life.
The session will be facilitated by Ximena Alarcón, an artist who has been studying the practice of Deep Listening since 2008, and who in 2012, became a Deep Listening Certificate holder. Ximena is a Research Fellow at CRiSAP, where she expands her research practice in the form of telematic sonic performances via the Internet, exploring what the in-between space, in the context of migration, sounds like." [ http://pointsoflistening.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/deep-listening/ ac'd 8/1/14]
Date: Wednesday January 8th, 2014
Time: 3:30pm to 6:30pm
Venue: Swiss Church, 79 Endell St, London WC2H 9DY
This event is part of the Points of Listening (PoL) programme of listening workshops, activities and discussions based in and around London. PoL is a Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) project.
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I'd been interested to find out more about "Deep Listening" and how Ximena uses this practice in her research practice, for a long time, and this workshop was an excellent experiential introduction. We walked, listening with our feet as we walked, we sat listening, we listened internally, externally to our body, externally to the amazing space within which we sat, the hall of the Swiss Church. The embodied listening practices reminded me of Philip Zarrilli's work with Kalarayipattu and performance - "When the Body Becomes All Eyes" (both ethos of the work and title of his book) - Ximena's workshop feeling to me like a listeners equivalent to the seers exercises I'd experienced years ago as introduced by Zarrilli.
Ximena's invitation to follow the theme of the workshop series, of which this was the first, Points of Listening caught my attention. I used the exercise as an opportunity to explore the points within my own body with which I was listening, and to explore the change of focus and affects of moving my listening from, for example, my head to my hear to my belly or within the soles of my feet or the whole of my skin.
See photos and listen to an acoustic compilation made from recordings at the workshop, at:
http://pointsoflistening.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/pol-1-documentation/
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I'd been interested to find out more about "Deep Listening" and how Ximena uses this practice in her research practice, for a long time, and this workshop was an excellent experiential introduction. We walked, listening with our feet as we walked, we sat listening, we listened internally, externally to our body, externally to the amazing space within which we sat, the hall of the Swiss Church. The embodied listening practices reminded me of Philip Zarrilli's work with Kalarayipattu and performance - "When the Body Becomes All Eyes" (both ethos of the work and title of his book) - Ximena's workshop feeling to me like a listeners equivalent to the seers exercises I'd experienced years ago as introduced by Zarrilli.
Ximena's invitation to follow the theme of the workshop series, of which this was the first, Points of Listening caught my attention. I used the exercise as an opportunity to explore the points within my own body with which I was listening, and to explore the change of focus and affects of moving my listening from, for example, my head to my hear to my belly or within the soles of my feet or the whole of my skin.
See photos and listen to an acoustic compilation made from recordings at the workshop, at:
http://pointsoflistening.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/pol-1-documentation/
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