Memory – An Action a Day

Listen for the future. Craft a sound for each vision.

Kitchener, Dec 24, 2018, 2:34 pm (with Stephie, in Mom’s attic) Action notes: This was an action that my sound-guru and sister, Stephanie suggested for us together. Her instructions: take a deep breath and let images of the future come up. Each…

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

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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:

Make Sounds. Imagine Sounds. Listen to Present Sounds. Remember Sounds.

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Natalie Loveless
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Ottawa, Nov 19, 2018, 1:44 pm (“special procedures” action; from Pauline’s Sonic Meditations document) Action notes: This action was joyful. The act of making playful sounds helped uplift a body (mine) that has been feeling unhealthy. Imagining playful sounds similarly “lifted”…

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…

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Listen for the future. Craft a sound for each vision.

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

Make Sounds. Imagine Sounds. Listen to Present Sounds. Remember Sounds.

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.