Week 01 – An Action a Day

Listen to the sounds of the child. Embed those sounds, sonically, in their environment. Feel the sounds that you are hearing from him knit themselves with the sounds of the space. Focus on both registers merging into a single sonic background.

Montreal, Nov 12, 2018, 3:25 pm (action for working; when you have to write and cannot be alone) Action notes: The child that I parent and care for is one of the most hyperactive, constantly moving, fidgeting, and random-noise-making creatures…

Perform Yoko Ono’s Beat Piece: Listen to a heart beat. 1963 autumn (from Grapefruit)

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Natalie Loveless
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Montreal, Nov 11, 2018, 10:37 pm (action for reuniting; after being apart from your loved ones) Action notes: My sweeties flew into Montreal this evening, to spend some time with me while I am in residence here. I haven’t seen…

Notice the hum of the electricity surrounding you. Start with sounds that you can hear most clearly and then search around with your ears for other electric hums -and-buzzes. Try to hear the sound of even the quietest of the electric things in your environment.

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Natalie Loveless
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Montreal, Nov 10, 2018, 11:49 am (action for when you feel lonely; at the late end of a relatively quiet day) Action notes: I started with what I think is the hum of the appliances in the apartment, and then…

Listen to the breath moving from the rim of your nostrils, up and over your sinuses, past your tonsils, and back out again. Repeat until you think that you have heard all of its resonances.

11-November-18
Natalie Loveless
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Montreal, Nov 9, 2018, 11:31 am (action for when your mind and heart are racing; on a day where you feel pulled in a million directions) Action notes: A little bit like a Conch shell. The sound of my breath started…

Find a familiar sound. Something archaic. Something that resonates from childhood, or from long ago. Something you don’t live with anymore. Something you know in your bones. Approximate that sound with your body and repeat it until you feel satisfied.

11-November-18
Natalie Loveless
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Montreal, Nov 8, 2018, 9:15 pm (action for the past; after travelling the city at night) Action notes: On the way home this evening (in Montreal, the city of my childhood and not the city that I currently live in) the…

Listen to the sounds of the inside of your body. Try to fill every corner with your listening. Stop when you have listened to every corner that you, at the moment, have access to. Bookmark for another day when you might be able to access other corners.

11-November-18
Natalie Loveless
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Montreal, Nov 7, 2018, 7:49 pm (action for refilling my bucket; after a long day of public presentation) Action notes: I sat in CC’s living room, and, at first felt a deep sense of “dropping into” my body and “touching”…