About this Event
The Philosophical Research Society is proud to welcome certified Deep Listening® facilitator Abby Dahlquist for a workshop experiencing composer, performer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros's transformative practice.
"Deep Listening is listening in every possible way, to everything it's possible to hear, no matter what you are doing." - Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening® practice incorporates qi gong, meditation, and collaborative performance, as well as listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination, and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness, and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth.
Inherently collaborative, the first published Deep Listening scores and activities (Sonic Meditations, 1971) were workshopped in the context of a female-identified collective, the fem-ensemble, over a period of many months. From the 1980s onwards, Deep Listening workshops, retreats, and the Deep Listening Certification Program were developed and facilitated in close partnership with playwright IONE (also Oliveros’ life partner) and movement artist Heloise Gold. Today, the philosophy and practice of Deep Listening continues to evolve through a growing international community of listeners.
This 90 minute workshop – led by Certified Deep Listening facilitator Abby Dahlquist invites participants to explore Oliveros’ Deep Listening® practice in community. Participants will guide and be guided through a series of exercises that involve meditation, movement, sounding, improvising, and dreaming. To change and be changed by sound.
Please bring a writing instrument and journal for reflections, your ears, and your voice. No musical experience is required!
Abby Dahlquist is a Certified Deep Listening facilitator through the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY. Her introduction to Deep Listening began at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wa where she graduated with a B.A. in Music, Poetics, & Consciousness. Abby performs in music groups Mystic 100s & Graffiti Phallico as well as her solo project Ecco the Dolphin.
Ticket Price: $25 (In Person Event)
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Pauline Oliveros practicing Deep Listening
Deep Listening session, c. 1970s
Facilitator Abby Dahlquist
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