In this 5th session of the Listening Project, we will tap into the primal aspects of listening and hearing.
Our living bodies are also archaeological wonders rooted, organically and inorganically, into deep time. As homo sapiens sapiens we are projecting and imagining and building into futures, while supported, haunted, and inevitably entangled with pasts, from yesterdays, to younger selves, to not even resembling yet our primate animal bodies.
Oliveros distinguishes between listening and hearing, the first as our capacity to be conscious, the second as our capacity to perceive, and in this session we will explore further the interplay between these faculties and how they can create bridges between very different times and experiences of being, and having been, a lifeform.
Deep Listening is an interdisciplinary awareness and attention practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros, using as main resources listening and sounding scores or meditations, somatic exercises, and imaginal/dream play. In these sessions, we incorporate concepts, techniques and perspectives from other somatic practices to facilitate experience and understanding of the embodied nature of listening. It is open to anyone interested in exploring embodied listening as a means to research, play, and recreate relationships with selves, others, and environments.
Francisco Petrucci is a certified Deep Listening facilitator, multidisciplinary artist, sound engineer, and somatic pedagogue, working at the intersection of sound, fiction and embodied research towards a poetics of everyday life.
