Listening to an Engine keeping you alive

The Gulf of Mexico, Dec 16, 2018, 8:12 pm (performed in the top lounge of the boat, between Cuba and the Bahamas) Action notes: Sitting on the top deck of the boat, the engine and machinery of the boat vibrating…

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Turn Feet Into Ears, Again

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…

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Practice Listening With One Ear, And Then The Other

The Gulf of Mexico, Dec 13, 2018, 3:10 pm (performed in the top lounge of the boat, between Cuba and the Bahamas) Action notes: On the right is a higher-pitched jiggly sound…like a clothes washer towards the end of its…

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

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…

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Listen with the palms of your hands.

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

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Listen to the soundscape, then to the sonosphere.

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…

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