Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #217791 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Synopsis
Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice offers an exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, meditators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be effected by profound attention to the sonic environment . Deep Listening is a practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros in order to enhance her own as well as other's listening skills. She teaches this practice worldwide in workshops, retreats and in her ground breaking Deep Listening classes at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Mills College. Deep Listening practice is accessible to anyone with an interest in listening. Undergraduates with no musical training benefit from the practices and successfully engage in creative sound projects. Many report life changing effects from participating in the Deep Listening classes and retreats. Oliveros is recognized as a pioneer in electronic music and a leader in contemporary music as composer, performer, educator and author. Her works are performed internationally and her improvisational performances are documented extensively on recordings, in the literature and on the worldwide web.

Customer Reviews

It's a manual
It seems to me that this book wasn't really intended for a general audience. It reads like a manual, a list of exercises to be performed when partaking in a Deep Listening study group, and the book contains very little background information or - as it says on the Amazon page - "insights and perspectives". Not so.

practical and useful

This book is very practical in its approach, incorporates many exercises to be practiced alone or in groups. A good book for anyone interested in refining their sense of hearing (i.e. improve their listening skills) especially musicians and composers.