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Day 266 of A Year of Deep Listening

TEXT SCORE FOR MY ANCESTORS, by Ayelet Rose Gottlieb

“The communal spirit of Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s 13 Lunar Meditations: Summoning The Witches feels like a gift.” said Downbeat magazine about Jerusalem-born Gottlieb’s most recent release. Ayelet’s contemporary, improvisatory approach has led her to collaborate with the likes of composer John Zorn and Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye. In 2018 Ayelet founded the “Orchard of Pomegranates,” a space for multidisciplinary exploration. There, she produces evocative monthly workshops including with dream specialist IONE, master vocalist Theo Bleckmann and choreographer Aria Evans.
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Day 265 of A Year of Deep Listening

VOLCANO: TRANSMUTING ANGER INTO CATHARSIS THROUGH MOVEMENT AND SOUND, by Grace Woodard

Grace Woodard is a sounder, mover, writer, Deep Listening facilitator, and licensed social worker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work considers natural rhythms, somatic awareness, and community as ways of fostering resilience and connection.

Day 263 of A Year of Deep Listening

BREATHING CIRCLE: FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH OR WITHOUT VISION, by Charlotte Adams

An adaptation of Pauline Oliveros’ Breath Improvisation.

Charlotte Adams / Vortichez makes electroacoustics and is a certified Deep Listening practitioner.

Day 262 of A Year of Deep Listening

I REMEMBER TEN THINGS, by Fred Everett Maus

This is a solo piece. It could also be adapted as a guided meditation for a group, though group members would follow the instructions as individuals.

Fred Everett Maus is a musician, writer, and teacher. He is a certified teacher of Deep Listening and of Mindfulness Meditation. He is co-editor of the recently published Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness.

Day 261 of A Year of Deep Listening

SCORE FOR SINGLE-USE PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES, by Kevin Logan

From a series of three scores that explore object materiality and social conditions

Kevin Logan is an artist, researcher, and educator based in London, UK. His work engages cross-disciplinary fields and incorporates installation, sound, moving-image, and performance. Kevin has exhibited and performed internationally, including: The ICA, London; The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; The Pompidou Centre, Paris; V2_Institute, Rotterdam; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei. In 2018 he completed a PhD with the research organization CRiSAP, University of the Arts London. This practice-led research explored sonic thinking through pedagogic and curatorial outcomes.

Day 259 of A Year of Deep Listening

GROCERY LIST, by Ellen Denham

I wrote this score for the Daily Deep Listening sessions hosted by Fifth House Ensemble on Zoom in summer of 2020, when we were all isolated due to the pandemic. This score was performed on June 17, 2020.

Ellen Denham teaches voice and directs the opera program at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. She has been interested in Deep Listening since studying the work of Pauline Oliveros while working on her doctoral thesis, “Improvisation as a Generative Tool for New Opera: An Exploration of Methods and Parameters.” During much of 2020, she participated in daily Deep Listening sessions on Zoom with members of Fifth House Ensemble.

Day 258 of A Year of Deep Listening

EIGHT VOICES, by Greg Niewsma

Greg Nieuwsma is an American living in Krakow, Poland. Nominally a guitarist, he dabbles in any musical instrument he can get his hands on, and even tries to squeeze music out of non-instruments.