intrusion – An Action a Day

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…

Practice radical (aural) acceptance.

11-November-18
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.

11-November-18
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.

11-November-18
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…

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.

11-November-18
Natalie Loveless
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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…

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Turn Feet Into Ears, Again

Practice radical (aural) acceptance.

Listen with the palms of your hands.

Listen to the soundscape, then to the sonosphere.

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.