The Center For Deep Listening

SOUNDS FOR SAFEKEEPING, by Robert Coleman

Composer Robert Coleman is currently a PhD student at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast focusing on site-specific, outdoor and environmentally engaged performance practices. His current research draws from numerous fields such as soundscape ecology, eco-acoustics, field recording and participatory arts. Having also studied architecture his work often features spatial concepts and metaphors as frameworks for the composition process. He has been commissioned by Crash Ensemble and New Music Dublin, the National Concert Hall Dublin, Irish National Opera and more.

RIVER ROCKS, by Holland Hopson

Holland Hopson is a sound and media artist, composer and improviser. A multi-instrumentalist, he usually performs on clawhammer banjo and electronics. Holland often augments his instruments with custom-designed sensor interfaces and performs with his own highly responsive, interactive computer programs. His media art has been exhibited in the US, UK and Korea and is in the collections of the University of Washington and RISD, among others. Holland’s most recent recording is a collaboration with poet Hank Lazer: field recordings of mind in morning.

BEYOND MATERIALITY, by Rachel Wilson

Rachel is a writer, musician and academic. Her work operates across disciplines, primarily focused at the intersections of sound, design, futures and sustainability discourses.

LOVE BY ANY MEANS, by Edie Meidav

This piece can be performed live or as a recording to which one or more movers respond.

Called ‘an American original’, Edie Meidav is the author of the lyric novel ANOTHER LOVE DISCOURSE (MIT Press/Terra Nova/2022), and other award-winning works including LOLA, CALIFORNIA (FSG), CRAWL SPACE (FSG), and is the librettist for the mythological opera on sisterhood and climate change, TIDES OF THE WOLF (with Ghost Ensemble). A piano improviser, she is a professor in the MFA for Poets and Writers at UMass Amherst.

FOCUS PIECE FOR C., by Andrew Weathers

Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser originally from Chapel Hill, NC and currently based in Littlefield, TX. His work engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit, splitting the difference between folk music and Land Art. Weathers studied composition at UNC-Greensboro and electronic music at Mills College in Oakland, CA.

WALKING PIECE, by Vassilis Chatzimakris

I am a composer, performer and sound artist, currently completing my PhD in Composition at Bath Spa University. My compositions have been performed by ensembles such as 6daEXIt, Apartment House, Plus Minus and In(s)core in concerts, festivals and multimedia performances all around the world. My compositional practice is centered around interfacial scores, i.e. scores that allow for alternative interpretations using substantially different performing means, representing thus an interface between different media. https://www.facebook.com/vassilischatzimakriscomposer

SONIC MEDITATION FOR JS, by Bob Drake

Listener, teacher, improvisor, electronic luthier, pipe organ technician in Cleveland OH. fluxmonkey.com

ROCK PRACTICE / THE EROTICISM OF NOTHINGNESS, by Hana van der Kolk

Hana van der Kolk is a dancer, artist, educator, writer, counselor/coach, and facilitator of community events and spaces. They see creative body-based work as a conduit for knowing/unknowing what is here and now, for remembering intimacy at many proximities, and are committed to ritual, ceremony, and celebration in many forms as a way of life. Hana is currently based on unceded Mohican land in upstate New York/the Hudson Valley and her practice straddles art and performance, socio-political inquiry, celebration, and personal and collective restoration and transformation. It manifests as workshops, one-on-one body-based Internal Family Systems counseling and sex and gender expansion work, performances, events/curation, writing, videos, and the making of gifts, sites, and costumes. Hana has taught and performed internationally, co-facilitates FlagSSS Day and Club SPA spa, and recently completed a practice based PhD focused on queer friendship, bodies as sites of magic and multiplicity, entanglement with the more-than-human, and possibilities of dismantling cultures of supremacy with and through bodies and complex intimacy.

PLACE / TIME / PLACE, by Caitlind Brown

I’ve been getting lost in time lately, wondering if I embody the dissipated consciousness of my lost parent and grandparents. Breathing is an exercise in time-keeping that changes in relation to the outside world. This watch is a family heirloom that I broke. Are each of us our own my own time-keeping device? Does time live in the flesh-place of the body?

Caitlind r.c. Brown is an artist based in Calgary/Mohkinstsis. Her multidisciplinary work explore interspaces between entities.

MOVE LIKE THE WIND, by Kip Wilson

This is based on an exercise my martial arts instructor Morris Burch taught one Saturday morning.

Kip Wilson started the New London Drone Orchestra in 2017.  This radically inclusive, protean collective manifests sustained, layered, gradually evolving, timeless sound. We bring together experienced players with people new to music. We use graphic and text scores as well as stochastic sound sources to guide group improvisation. Find our latest experiments at https://soundcloud.com/nldroneorchestra and our three albums—Live at the Crab Shack (Furnace Records 2022, recorded live in 2018), Pass It On (self-released 2021), and Isolation/Collaboration (Enter the Circle 2020)—on Bandcamp.