DEEP LISTENING®
What is deep listening?
The best way to answer that is to read Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice by Pauline Oliveros.
You can also look at the Pauline Oliveros Trust website and I highly recommend attending a Deep Listening retreat.
***New – Deep Listening Through Parenthood – Link***
Here is my story with Deep Listening.
I first met Pauline Oliveros in a composition seminar at Mills College in the Fall of 2001. The following spring, I took her Deep Listening course and began a practice that I have relied on for inspiration, support, adventure, and growth over the last twenty years. I have had the fortune to be able to attend three Deep Listening retreats led by Pauline Oliveros, Ione, and Heloise Gold in Cork, Ireland, Marin County, CA, and Sortland, Norway. My life and work have been profoundly changed by this practice and Pauline’s teachings. When thinking about what I want to share about myself and my work, I knew it would not be complete if I didn’t have a section on Deep Listening.
Deep Listening Work with Pauline Oliveros – Mills College, 2001-2003
Hunger by Anne Hege
This piece was created from recordings made for the Deep Listening Course. The course assignment was to record something with a pulse. From the collected class recordings, I created this mix, highlighting the desperate bird cries that I heard regularly outside my window.
Furusato: a home destroyed by Anne Hege
Written during my first composition seminar with Pauline Oliveros, this work for mixed instruments and premiered by the Contemporary Performance Ensemble at Mills College in the fall of 2001 began my exploration of dream space and graphic scores.
I-2 Collaboration – Close by Anne Hege and Mimi Hamman
In the I-2 project (spring 2003), facilitated by Pauline Oliveros, Mimi Hamman and I worked using a special I-2 high-speed Internet connection to create a collaborative vocal piece that explored the depth of communication between two musicians on either side of the continent.
Paper
This was my final response to what I noticed over my time with the Deep Listening practice – mainly that my dreams had begun to highlight time-shifting and the simultaneity of different time periods at once. I became fascinated with this and I am still drawn to the idea that all times are present in this one moment.
Deep Listening Retreat – Cork, Ireland, 2007
Winged Fragments: A Dream of Seven Swans by Anne Hege
This piece was written during and directly after my first Deep Listening retreat. The retreat, with the interweaving of deep listening through movement, dream-work, meditative listening, and the creation and performance of sonic meditations, awakened and clarified my desire to compose music that is also movement and ritual. I loved everything about this piece. It began with a movement, inspired by Heloise’s crane walking. I loved my collaboration with dancer/choreographer/fellow deep listener ??? who helped me hone the movement and its sonic counterpart. I loved creating the graphic score, realizing that cutting and pasting was the best way to communicate what I wanted. I loved Ensemble Klang’s willingness to make the piece magical. It was a beautiful process from beginning to end.
Deep Listening Retreat – Marin, CA, 2010
During this retreat, I began to compose my dissertation project, There’s a Spirit in the Flesh, for electronics, trombone, voices, and dancer. Over the course of the next nine months (while also creating another baby being), I rehearsed and collaborated with trombonist Jen Baker and dancer Donna Costello to weave together an evening-length work where sound and movement, dream and community are one.
First Annual Deep Listening Conference – EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013
I was honored to be accepted to lead a workshop at this conference inspired by my piece From the Waters for Laptop Orchestra. At this workshop, I was able to realize my dream of having more than fifty people play my “rope” at once. It was a magical experience. Below is a video of Sideband performing, but just imagine 70 people at a huge rope, it was beautiful!
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Deep Listening Retreat – Sortland, Norway, 2015
I almost didn’t attend this retreat. The thought of flying thousands of miles across the ocean for a week of re-grounding listening work seemed overly luxurious. I am ever thankful to Kristin Norderval for her timely email nudges to go. This was Pauline’s last full retreat before her passing in 2016 and I feel so lucky to have been there. During this retreat, I finished my Deep Listening Certification and presented my sonic meditations Deep Listening through Parenthood: Sonic Meditations for Birth, the NICU, and Beyond. I’ve made a whole new page for these meditations as well as a pamphlet that you can download here.
