The Gulf of Mexico, Dec 15, 2018, 2:49 pm (inspired by Pauline Oliveros, in the open waters)

Action notes: Practiced this action on a boat, sitting on a balcony. The buzz of the floor activating every corner of my feet like cilia. Racing up from my feet, through my body as the waves crash and the engine churns. The engine is the most dominant sound, the waves a close second, and the hum “heard” by my feet is a small, easily overwhelmed, option within the sonosphere.

Action constraints: I like this action because it grounds the idea of listening in the broadest sense of vibrations being felt in the body and translated as meaningful sound as well as holding space for all kinds of other “hearings” in the world — those sound waves that are not audible to humans but that have effect on us anyway. But, that said, the practice of listening, every day, to something, in a way that calls me out of the everyday, isn’t, for some reason, as satisfying to me when I am doing it through my feet. 🙂

 

 

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