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Day 345 of A Year of Deep Listening

 

ON BECOMING RESOUNDING HILLS, by Pablo Diserens

Pablo Diserens is an artist who engages with various topo- and phonographies with a wide range of visual and sonic recording techniques. Their work brings the bio- and geological features of the explored environments to the foreground by blending a rich variety of field recordings with texts, analog photographs and video. Through their various practices embedded in sonic ecology, experimental music, and acousmatic forms, Diserens draws attention to fragile biomes, unheard minutiae and the political act of listening with the aim of sparking ecological awareness and developing caring strategies.

Day 344 of A Year of Deep Listening

 

EAR SHELL TRAIL, by Simonetta Mignano

Simonetta Mignano is curator and artist based in Anchorage, Alaska. She primarily works in participatory practices using different mediums. Her work is often characterized by extensive investigations conducted at slow pace. She founded Bivy (Anchorage, Alaska), a contemporary art gallery and bookstore juxtaposing contemporary art and craft through exhibitions, performances and other practices, and co-founded the School of Nonfunctional Studies (USA/Italy), an open, informal and experimental school project based on process, presence and awareness. She is a certified Deep Listening® teacher.

Day 343 of A Year of Deep Listening

 

INSTRUCTION No. 8, by Dharmendra Mehta

BE THE SEA is a collaboration between artist Louise Mackenzie, composer Hayley Jenkins, Durham Wildlife Trust and a growing community of participants based along the coast between the rivers Tyne and Tees in the North East of England, UK. BE THE SEA foregrounds listening strategies to ask how we can live with the coast in ways that are mutually sustainable.

Day 341 of A Year of Deep Listening

 

SOUNDING THE WALKING MEDITATION, by Jim Dalton

American composer Jim Dalton is a professor of music theory at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. His works are performed throughout the US, Canada, and in Europe, including venues such as Musique Nouvelles, Lunel, France; the Kansas Symposium of New Music; Sound: Scotland’s Festival of New Music; and Akademie der Tonkunst (Darmstadt, Germany). He has recent premieres by Aaron Larget-Caplan, Carson Cooman, Sharan Leventhal, Stephen Altoft, Transient Canvas, and Scottish Voices. Dalton is a frequent guest lecturer in microtonality/just intonation.

Day 340 of A Year of Deep Listening

 

NUMBER 8, by Maria Curran

Maria Curran is a senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studying chemical engineering. She is still figuring out what comes next.

Day 339 of A Year of Deep Listening

 

FOUR SHORT TEXT PIECES FOR PAULINE OLIVEROS, by Michael Francis Duch

FOUR SHORT TEXT PIECES (FOR PAULINE OLIVEROS) was first performed by the ensemble Lemur at Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall in Arendal, Norway as part of their piece KARYOBIN. 

Michael Francis Duch (1978) is a double bass-player from Trondheim, Norway, and professor of double bass, jazz and experimental music at NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology.He has been involved in about 70 recordings released in various formats, and collaborated with Pauline Oliveros, Mats Gustafsson, AMM, Christian Wolff, Tony Conrad, Joëlle Léandre and others. Michael Francis Duch plays in a trio with Rhodri Davies and John Tilbury, the improvquartet LEMUR with Bjørnar Habbestad, Hild Sofie Tafjord and Lene Grenager and the Glaswegian avant disco-band AMOR.

Day 338 of A Year of Deep Listening

 

SOUND EXERCISE III: IMAGINARY EARS, by Motohide Taguchi

My pieces of “Sound Exercise” series focus on individual attentiveness and reactions to the environments. This piece is like a listening exercise in which a performer tries to listen to the sounds from the place as far as he/she can hear by his/her own ears and those beyond the limit of hearing by imaginary ears..

Motohide Taguchi has been active as a composer since 1999 when became the finalist of the 16th JSCM Award for Composers. In 2002, he was selected for the 8th International Young Composers’ Meeting (The Netherlands). With strong interest in Japanese music, he has tried various compositional ways to utilize its characteristics. Recently, with increasing interest in various social issues, he composed some pieces related to wartime memories, the migration, etc. He has also tried to introduce the works of Southeast Asian composers through organizing the lectures and concerts including their works.

Day 337 of A Year of Deep Listening

 

DESCRIPTION (SECOND VERSION), by Eli Neuman-Hammond

This score can also be realized with more–but no less–than two people.

Eli Neuman-Hammond is a Queens-based artist and educator. He works with a variety of materials to form questions about language, memory, perception, pedagogy, and architecture.