1.
ARTIST TALK

DEEP LISTENING ACROSS DISTANCE
January 13, 7-8:30 pm MDT

Deep Listening -- which encompasses bodywork, sonic meditation, and performance -- is a creative listening practice developed by pioneering composer, Pauline Oliveros. In this talk, Stephanie Loveless (sound artist and director of the Center for Deep Listening) will consider what Deep Listening offers as a mode of connecting across distance and across difference. In addition to an inquiry into notions of “telepresence” within the philosophy and practice of Deep Listening, Loveless will discuss some of her own listening-based artworks, and facilitate a series of participatory exercises -- exploring how acts of listening can attune us to ourselves, each other, and our surroundings.

2.
colab meetup

Friday, January 15, 2:00 – 4:00 pm MDT

In this month’s CoLAB meet-up, we will discuss texts pre circulated by Loveless and linked to her talk and workshop.



3.
WORKSHOP

ACTS OF LISTENING
January 22 & January 29, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm MST

In this two-part workshop, we will explore LISTENING as a philosophical and political orientation -- one that is not passive (as listening is often figured), but active, and deeply generative. Our explorations will be grounded in the listening, sounding and movement scores of composer and sound pioneer Pauline Oliveros. As a practice that cultivates presence, agency, and collective decision-making, Deep Listening provides tools for nurturing individual well-being and community empowerment that are particularly vital at this moment of global crisis. Together, we will explore the difference between passive hearing and active listening, collaborate in group sound and movement meditations, and develop our own scores for listening and responding in, with, and to, the world around us.

Workshop online sessions descriptions

Limit to 12 seats

Friday, Jan 22, 10 am – 1 pm MST [3 hours]

Exercises in listening, sounding, and movement; Exploration of instruction scores as a tool of research and creation; Collective creation and performance of listening scores.  

Saturday — Monday:  Participants will compose a listening score in response to their environment. By Tuesday morning, each person uploads their score.

Wednesday — Thursday: Participants perform 3 other participant scores, documenting, or otherwise responding to, their experience. 

Friday, Jan 29, 10 am – 1 pm MST [3 hours]

Final group reflection

Stephanie Loveless is a sound and media artist whose research centers on listening and vocal embodiment. Her recent projects include a mobile web-app for geo-located listening, and sound works that channel the voices of plants, animals, and musical divas. She has studied with pioneering composers such as Pauline Oliveros (with whom she completed a Certification in Deep Listening), Hildegard Westerkamp (as a founding member of the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective) and Diamanda Galás. Currently, she teaches courses on Deep Listening and ecologically-oriented sound art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York, where she also serves as the Director of the Center for Deep Listening.

Image Credit: Rose Mitchell