Octogenarian composer and sound art pioneer Pauline Oliveros describes the sound experiment that led her to found an institute related to Deep Listening, and develop it as a theory relevant to music, psychology, and our collective quality of life. The academic field concerned with hearing is auditory science. Listening is a lifetime practice that depends on accumulated experiences with sound it can be focused to detail or open to the entire field of sound. Listening Difference Between Hearing and Listening Hearing Hearing, or auditory perception, is the ability to perceive sounds by detecting vibrations, changes in the pressure of the surrounding medium through time, through an organ such as the ear. Ears do not listen to sounds the brain does. If you are too narrow in your awareness of sounds, you are likely to be disconnected from your environment. It’s interesting that she links both process as co-dependent, ultimately exposing a dialogic form of the listening process which result in a radical expansion of space and time. Also, it’s curious to note that, by doing a remarked differentiation between what’s sounding (measurable, acoustic, physical) and what’s being listened (non-measurable, subjective, psychologically). At the same time, the way of valuing our opening to what she calls “entire field of sound” is tempting. I particularly like when she talks about listening as a lifetime practice, as a disciple which depends on training, cultivation. She talks about the deep listening process, her considerations around whats truly listen and how it reflects on our lives. It’s great, as anything you could expect from her. A new TEDtalk by Pauline Oliveros has been published on YouTube.
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