Week 04 – An Action a Day

Listen To A Mundane Task

Montreal, Dec 3, 2018, 3:28 am Action notes: Action constraints:

Practice Focal and Global Listening

Montreal, Dec 2, 2018, 12:04 am (inspired by Pauline Oliveros) Action notes: For this action, I took inspiration from Oliveros’s practice of focal and global listening, combined with something I was told that she would say when guiding people in the…

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

11-November-18
Natalie Loveless
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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.

11-November-18
Natalie Loveless
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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.”

11-November-18
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…