Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice

by Oliveros, Pauline

• ISBN13: 9780595343652
• ISBN10: 0595343651
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-08
• Publisher: Author Solutions

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Preface	xv
Introduction	xxi
Deep Listening Practice	1	(28)
Summary of the Deep Listening Class	2	(1)
Description of the Deep Listening Practice Sessions (Activities)	3	(2)
Bodywork	5	(5)
Exercise Preparation	5	(1)
Natural Stance	5	(1)
Posture	5	(1)
The Exercises	5	(5)
Arm Swinging	5	(1)
Wrap and Slap	6	(1)
Taoist Face Wash	6	(1)
Shoulder and Body Slap with Hanging Out	7	(1)
Abbreviated Yoga Sun Salute	7	(1)
Swimming Dolphin (Chi Kung)	7	(1)
Dragon Tail (Chi Kung)	8	(1)
Good in Bad out (Chi Kung)	8	(1)
Flower Breathing (Chi Kung)	8	(1)
The Energy of Rising/Falling (T'ai Chi)	8	(1)
Breath Wheel (T'ai Chi)	9	(1)
Energy Sphere	9	(1)
Commentary	9	(1)
Breath	10	(2)
The Exercises	10	(2)
Breath Improvisation	10	(1)
Breath Regulation	10	(1)
Commentary	10	(2)
Listening	12	(1)
The Exercise	12	(1)
Commentary	12	(1)
Ways of Listening	13	(4)
Forms of Attention	13	(1)
Sending and Receiving	13	(1)
Sound/Silence	14	(1)
Palms of Hands	14	(1)
Soles of Feet	14	(1)
Whole Body	15	(1)
Multi-dimensional Listening	15	(2)
Listening Journal	17	(3)
The Exercise	17	(3)
How to Use Your Journal	17	(1)
Recording Your Inner Experiences: Remembering and Remembering to Remember	17	(1)
Recording Observations of the External Soundscape	18	(1)
What does it Mean to Collect All Sounds?	19	(1)
Extreme Slow Walk	20	(1)
The Exercise	20	(1)
Commentary	20	(1)
Four Modes of Thought	21	(2)
The Exercise	21	(2)
Sensation	21	(1)
Intuition	21	(1)
Feeling	21	(1)
Thinking	21	(1)
Commentary	22	(1)
Discussion	23	(1)
The Exercises	23	(1)
Partner	23	(1)
Group	23	(1)
Commentary	23	(1)
Rhythm Circle	24	(3)
The Exercises	24	(3)
Heartbeat	24	(1)
60 Beats per Minute (bpm)	24	(1)
Multiples and Divisions of 60bpm	24	(1)
Variations	24	(1)
Hemiola	25	(1)
Shifting Accents Lnprovisation	25	(1)
Zina's Circle: Fast Reaction Time	25	(1)
Commentary	26	(1)
Field Recording	27	(2)
The Exercise	27	(2)
A Study in Mixed Environments	27	(1)
A Study in Pulses	27	(1)
Commentary	28	(1)
Deep Listening Pieces	29	(26)
Sound Cycles (1994)	30	(1)
Collective Environmental Composition (1975)	31	(1)
Earth: Sensing/Listening/Sounding (1992)	32	(1)
Deep Listening Through The Millennium (1998)	33	(1)
Ear Piece (1998)	34	(1)
Environmental Dialogue (1996 Revision)	35	(1)
We Could (1980)	36	(1)
We Are Together Because (1980)	37	(1)
Any Piece of Music (1980)	38	(1)
Deep Listening Meditations-Egypt (1999)	39	(2)
The Heart Chant (2001)	41	(1)
A Series of Mini Pieces (1992)	42	(1)
New Sonic Meditation (1977)	43	(1)
The New Sound Meditation (1989)	44	(1)
Old Sound, New Sound, Borrowed Sound Blue, for voices (1994)	45	(1)
Open Field (1980)	46	(1)
Sonic Tonic (1992)	47	(1)
Rhythms (1996)	48	(1)
Scanning-Hearing (1995)	49	(1)
Sound Fishes (1992)	50	(1)
Sound Piece (1998)	51	(1)
Teen Age Piece (1980)	52	(1)
Urban/Country Meditations (1988)	53	(1)
Cross Overs (1996)	54	(1)
Listening Questions	55	(2)
Commentaries	57	(2)
Appendix	59	(24)
Reflections and Research into the Slow Walk by Andrew Taber	59	(4)
What is Attention? by Mohamed Khaldi	63	(1)
Posten Kill by TJ Szewczak	64	(5)
Noise to Signal: Deep Listening and the Windowed Line by Doug van Nort	69	(4)
Deep Listening Retreat by Caterina De Re	73	(7)
Deep Listening Koans and the Wizard of Oz by Maika Yuri Kusama	80	(3)
Webliography	83	(2)
Bibliography	85	(4)
Glossary	89	(2)
References	91	(8)
Index	99