Name: UNTIL YOUR FEET BECOME EARS: DEEP LISTENING WORKSHOP
Start: 2026-03-15T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-15T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Philosophical Research Society

Join sound artist Trevor Treglia, performance artist Crystal Sasaki, and artist Guadalupe Arellanes as we focus on sound, breath & movement
About this Event

UNTIL YOUR FEET BECOME EARS: DEEP LISTENING WORKSHOP will guide participants through a series of deep listening and embodied play exercises, focusing on sound, breath, movement, improvisation, and awareness of both the inner and outer sonic environment. These practices, rooted in Pauline Oliveros’ and Heloise Gold's Deep Listening, encourage experimentation, collaboration, and playful ways of being that can support both personal and communal growth.

Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) was an American composer, improviser, and pioneer of experimental and electronic music. She is best known for developing Deep Listening, a practice that combines sonic awareness, meditation, and improvisation. A founding figure in postwar American experimentalism, Oliveros worked with early synthesizers, organized radical performance collectives, and taught generations of artists to rethink listening as a political and spiritual act. Her work bridges sound, consciousness, and social transformation.

Heloise Gold is a dancer, performing artist, choreographer, and T’ai Chi/Qi Gong instructor. She moved to Austin from NYC in 1979, and became known as one of Austin’s premiere performance/dance artists, being a key player in the experimental work developing at the time. A generative artistic and teaching relationship with Pauline Oliveros began in the 1980s and in 1991 Oliveros, IONE and Gold began co-leading annual Deep Listening Retreats.

In the PRS Lecture Room!

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Ticket price: $30 (please email [email protected] to request sliding scale ticket) (In-person event only)

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Trevor Treglia (b. 1995) is a composer and sound artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His practice centers on the emotional aspects of timbre and pitch perception. Treglia’s work engages closely with tuning and harmonic structures, exploring how specific pitch relationships shape both auditory perception and affective experience. His compositions often feature unconventional tunings and extended techniques, focusing on the subtle shifts in sound that emerge through careful manipulation of pitch and texture.

Crystal Sasaki is a Butoh dancer, Performance Artist, and audio-visual-poet from California, based in Los Angeles, b.1989. She excavates internal and relational terrain in pursuit of raw presence. Sasaki's work has been presented by PerformanceWorks NW, Ten Tiny Dances, Portland Butoh Festival, Portland Underground Film Festival, Creative Music Guild, Poetic Research Bureau, and more. She holds a BA in Dance & Performance Studies from UC Berkeley, a Certification in Deep Listening®, and has been studying Butoh since 2014.

Guadalupe Arellanes is an artist and scholar from Los Angeles, California, b. 1993. Her work investigates the poetics of place and the lingering textures of hauntings using surrealist techniques and nonlinear temporalities. Her experimental films have been featured in programs by the LEIMAY Foundation, Boston Cyberarts, Beyond Baroque, Harkat Studios, Griffith College Dublin, and more. She holds a PhD from UC Riverside where she conducted research on migrant ecologies through a critical memory studies lens.

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