Listening – Page 3 – An Action a Day

Collect sounds in your mind that you have overheard through the week. Repeat them in your mind in different orders one afternoon.

Montreal, Nov 30, 2018, 12:31 pm (Yoko Ono, Collecting Piece, 1963 Autumn, from Grapefruit) Action notes: Action constraints:

When a sight, sound, movement, or place attracts your attention during your daily life, consider that moment an “art experience”. Find a way to record an impression of this momentary “art experience” using any appropriate means or media. Share these experiences with each other and make them available to others.

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Montreal, Nov 29, 2018, 9:45 am (Pauline Oliveros – ‘Open Field’ (1980) Deep Listening, A Composer’s Sound Practice, 46) Action notes: Action constraints:

Contemplate middle F as “the key-note of nature.”

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Natalie Loveless
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Montreal, Nov 28, 2018, 4:40 pm (in honour of Benjamin Silliman) Action notes: Yale University professor Benjamin Silliman, wrote the following: “Key-note of nature. The aggregate sound of nature, as heard in the roar of a distant city, or the waving foliage of…

Practice radical (aural) acceptance.

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Natalie Loveless
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Montreal, Nov 26, 2018, 1:38 pm (on a difficult day) Action notes: Action constraints:

Listen with the palms of your hands.

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Natalie Loveless
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Montreal, Nov 25, 2018, 3:32 pm (inspired by Pauline Oliveros, on a cold, cold day) Action notes: Action constraints:

Listen to the soundscape, then to the sonosphere.

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Natalie Loveless
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Montreal, Nov 24, 2018, 1:23 pm (after reading Douglas Kahn’s chapter on Pauline Oliveros) Action notes: In Douglas Kahn’s chapter on Pauline Oliveros in Earth Sound Earth Signal compares R. Murray Schafer’s notion of Soundscape to Oliveros’s Sonosphere. While there…