Excerpts from a zine I made for the February Deep Listening workshop at PRS. The theme was the heart and love. We generated a melody from a recording of my heart beat Milford Graves style and everyone translated their own heart sounds from their own sound processing computers, their bodies! We sounded a heart chorus and extended the possibility of unconditional love around the world. May all beings be free đź’—
Hey hey you heard it’s true! In honor of celebrating joining Lost Hills I’ve decided to bless y’all with some of my greatest hair hits over the ages. Tip of the iceberg but some gems dug up. Scroll to the end you know I saved the best for last!
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Wednesday, February 4th, The Philosophical Research Society is proud to welcome certified Deep Listening® facilitator Abby Dahlquist for a workshop exploring composer, performer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros’s transformative practice.
Dahlquist will guide us through the process and teach us how to bring our awareness to the natural music of the world around us.
Deep Listening explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. Oliveros developed a practice which includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive 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 be guided through a series of exercises that involve meditation, movement, sounding, improvising, and dreaming to explore the sonic environment, both internal and external. This practice is offered as a gateway to creative fields in the space/time continuum.
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EDIT: this is on February FOURTH!
An offering of peace, an invitation to create—tuning in community!
***This 90 minute workshop - led by Certified Deep Listening facilitator Abby Dahlquist invites participants to explore Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening® practice in community. Participants will be guided through a series of exercises that involve meditation, movement, sounding, improvising, and dreaming to explore the sonic environment, both internal and external. This practice is offered as a gateway to creative fields in the space/ time continuum.***
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Check it out, one of my lamps is now available at @tbiskup shop @home.guts here in Verdugo Village. He’s got a new show opening tonight, roll through and scope the scene!
Some pictures of the process here, with one destroyed yoga mat lost to the grout gods.
Graffiti Phallico has officially been a band for 3 years as of today—thanks to @kayla_itasca inviting us to play a show and we had to make something up. We’ve grown from 2 to 5 and sometimes more, we’ve changed a lot and discovered many new avenues. Our next show is November 16th at Gold Diggers.
Star 69 asked me to make this flyer and I’m always available to do design work like this!
I was inspired by their attitude reminiscent of royal trux and imagined a rock n roll backstage pass of days of yore.
Opening with new band with members of Oog Bogo, Grave Flowers Bongo Band, and Memo PST ✨ don’t miss it
