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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice Paperback – March 8, 2005

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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, mediators 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.

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Pauline Oliveros (1932) is one of America?s most important composers. Deep Listening® is her lifetime practice. Currently she serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY, Darius Milhaud Artist-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland CA and president of Pauline Oliveros Foundation in Kingston NY. http://www.deeplistening.org/pauline.

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (March 8, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0595343651
ISBN-13: 978-0595343652
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.3 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 9 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #105 in Music Appreciation (Books)
- #1898 in Meditation (Books)
- #8425 in New Age & Spirituality

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I feel like some of the text probably has some slightly special ...

February 5, 2017

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This review is for the e-book. It's completely unformatted. Can't jump to chapters, page number lines in the introduction interject haphazardly into the different pagination of the e-book. I feel like some of the text probably has some slightly special formatting in the print version, but in the electronic version it comes out scrambled and out of sequence. Really half-assed and sloppy. Not worth $9.

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Daniel Prieto

Awareness-rising, useful

October 6, 2013

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Besides being one of my favorite composers, Oliveros is a lucid author, synthesizing in this book an important part of her experience as listener and composer. Many of the exercises that she presents in her book are effective for developing awareness on the sound environment and the own sonic life. Besides that, this book has been inspiring for my own work as teacher and composer.

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Hogaku

Important For All Improvising Musicians

March 28, 2013

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Pauline Oliveros presents alternatives for musicians (and listeners), no matter what genre they are camped in. As a jazz performer, teacher, composer I consider her contributions to improvised music to be as important as Charlie Parker's, John Cage, etc. Her approaches are open to all and help bring about inner peace.

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Sue

Prompt delivery, came just as described

October 1, 2018

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Came on time, exactly as described, no issues. Thanks for the book!

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Jeffrey Lopez-stuit

A book on meditative practies

January 9, 2011

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This book has some really insightful content about our relationship to sound. The rest of the book, which has long descriptions of meditative practices, is not very informative. The practices aren't significantly different from what you might find in other approaches to meditation, and it's hard to understand how they relate to the author's art.

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Joel D. Palmer

A Source Book

June 9, 2009

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This is focused material for a focused readership interested in the underpinnings and exercises in Oliveros' Deep Listening approach to meditation and music. This slim volume collects the apparently small amount of written material that Deep Listening has produced with respect to actually preparing oneself or a group for deeper and broader awareness of and involvement in the soundscape, and applying these listening techniques to music and all aspects of life. In specific, there are some brief philosophical essays by Oliveros, listening exercises and composition challenges, and reports by workshop attenders and Deep Listening practitioners. I read the book in preparation for attending a performance by the Deep Listening Band, and while I was sympathetic to the aims and goals, I was disappointed that decades of professional work had been summarized in such a cursory and haphazard way. The performance, by the way, by Pauline Oliveros (accordion, electronics), Stuart Dempster (trombone, electronics), and David Gamper (keyboards, electronics), was transcendent and left me in an altered state.

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Ramón Sender Barayón (http://www.raysender.com)

Essentials of Oliveros' Excellent Teachings

April 17, 2005

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Pauline Oliveros has devoted more time and effort to understanding how listening effects the life form than anyone else I have encountered. From the moment I met her some forty-plus years ago and we became both friends and colleagues, Pauline shared with me her profound interest in how environmental sounds affected both her musical performance, her composition, and her sense of self. This 'listening beyond hearing' led her to expand her understanding of how focused sound perception can function as a gateway into the moment, into the Now. Inasmuch as all sound occurs only in the present moment, it can function as a natural path to the meditative experience, taking us from focused listening (concentration and one-pointedness) to the wider, relaxed state of Deep Listening, as she has named it.

This book contains the summation of the author's Deep Listening experience in her research, composition, performance, workshops, retreats and classes. It includes as well some fascinating essays and quotes from her students. All in all, this compilation will serve as a valuable guide not only to musicians and composers, but also to anyone interested in a coming to a deeper understanding of themselves and their interaction with their sonic environment.

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David Bennett

A New Age text

January 10, 2010

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Boy, is this not what I expected. Having heard some of Oliveros's music as well as that of other artists available at the Deep Listening web site, I had not realized how much of her approach to the practice of Deep Listening involved straight-up New Age notions. This book offers descriptions of Tai Chi or Yoga (or whatever) practice--eg, the Swimming Dolphin ("...Repeat the same motion opening the next chakra, then the third chakra...then the eyes, the third eye, and then extend the arms upward with palms open gathering energy from the universe."), or the Dragon Tail ("The floating palm is sensing and gathering energy as it passes each energy center"). There is emphasis on posture for meditation ("Imagine a golden thread shooting out of the crown of your head to a distant star"), practices like The Heart Chant ("Can you imagine that the heart energies are joining together for healing yourself and others?"), and so on. Though there are passages about mindful attention to music and the soundscape, they are, for me, overwhelmed by the material on yoga, meditation, and New Age practices. No criticism is intended--it may be for you or not, but I felt that a more explicit description was needed here of what sort of book this is.

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