Across Boundaries, Across Abilities Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. 77 Cornell St, Suite 303 PO Box 1956 Kingston, NY 12401 www.deeplistening.org [email protected] facebook.com/deep.listener Twitter @DeepListening What is Deep Listening? There’s more to listening than meets the ear. Pauline Oliveros describes Deep Listening as “listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what one is doing.” Basically Deep Listening, as developed by Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature – exclusive and inclusive -- of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, interactive performance, listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination and dreams, and listening to listening itself. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth. ; 2 Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) Troy, New York My hope is to inspire scientific inquiry and research on listening as well as to bring the world community together to share ideas and practice Deep Listening. --Pauline Oliveros, Founder of Deep Listening Institute Dear Conference Attendees, I am extremely pleased to welcome you to Deep Listening: Art/Science, the First International Conference on Deep Listening! This three-day event will feature an amazing array of lectures, workshops, posters and experience-focused presentations on a number of topics related to the art and science of listening. This includes many distinguished and long-time members of the Deep Listening community as well as a host of scholars and creators who approach listening from unique perspectives. My goal was to craft a call for submissions that elicited a diversity of thought on the subject; the resulting quality, breadth and number of submissions was so overwhelming that we decided to expand the conference from two to three days in order to accommodate them all. Further, this response is a very strong testament to Pauline Oliveros' mission and work in developing such a strong community of Deep Listeners, as well as her undeniable role in challenging us all to think more deeply about listening while attending to all that surrounds us. This conference is produced by the Deep Listening Institute (DLI) in coordination with exceptional support from the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The impetus to produce this event stems from discussions with Pauline, myself, Deep Listening trustees and Dean Mary Simoni (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences at RPI) surrounding the long-term stewardship of DLI, and the expanded role that RPI should assume in this process. This has led to an initiative, beginning this summer, aimed at heightening awareness of DL on campus. This includes a summer course on "Deep Listening and the Science of Sound" which I had the pleasure of teaching, and which follows the momentum of Pauline's very popular "Deep Listening" course that is offered each semester. This "DLI@RPI" initiative also includes the pre-conference workshop "Sound Sculpting and Deep Listening Through Electronics", and finally is capped off with the spectacular convergence that is this conference. On the one hand the goal of this summer Deep Listening activity is to strengthen and develop a focused center for Deep Listening contemplation, studies and experiences in a university setting. At the same time this conference is aimed at expanding and strengthening the international network of Deep Listeners, engaging from practice to theory with equal attention to scientific and artistic points of view. On a personal note, it has been an absolute pleasure and honor to work with Pauline Oliveros so closely as a friend/mentor/colleague in research, teaching, performing and listening these past years. As I leave RPI for a new venture, this culminating experience of working on Deep Listening: Art/Science has been deeply inspiring and affirming of Pauline's important work in developing this international community, and equally is a testament to your important place in growing this community further. Thank you all for being here, and I look forward to listening with/to you. All the best, Doug Van Nort, Conference Director 2 2 ; 3 DEEP LISTENING ART/SCIENCE Conference Organization Doug Van Nort, Conference Director Lisa Barnard Kelley, Conference Coordinator Cristyn Magnus, Technical Coordinator Program Committee: Tom Bickley Brenda Hutchinson Pauline Oliveros Jonas Braasch Norman Lowrey Ione Deep Listening Institute: Pauline Oliveros, Executive Director Volunteers: Ione, Artistic Director Allison Berkoy Lisa Barnard Kelley, Events & Marketing Heidi Boisvert Emily Halstein, Administrative & Finance Manager Tonio Bovoso Al Margolis, Label & Catalog Manager Alexei Bulazel Nico Bovoso, Graphic Designer Stacy Denton Casey Frensz, Intern Nikhil Deshpande William Raptor Loveridge Dickie Deep Listening Institute Board of Trustees: James McEntee David Felton, President Leaf Miller Jonas Braasch, Vice-President Tina Pearson Olivia Robinson, Secretary C. Lavender Antonio Bovoso, Treasurer Jung Yoon Tom Bickley Chris Chafe Orville Dale Brenda Hutchinson Ione Norman Lowrey Pauline Oliveros Johannes Welsch Special Thanks to Tom Roe of free103point9/WGXC for broadcasting the conference on their website free103point9.org Special Thanks to Dean Mary Simoni of the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at RPI (HASS) and Greg Palmer for his support with documentation of the conference. Special Thanks to the staff of RPI's Conference Services for their support with on-campus housing and to Catering Services of RPI. Special Thanks to the staff of EMPAC. 3 3 ; 4 DEEP LISTENING ART/SCIENCE JULY 12-14, 2013 Table of Contents Conference Welcome………………………………………………………………….……..2 Organization & Acknowledgements…………………………………………….……..3 Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………….…......4 Conference Schedule………………………………………………………………….……...5 Art of Listening Keynote…………………………………………………………….…...…8 Science of Listening Keynote…………………………………………………….………..9 Golden Ear Award Presentation……………………………………………….……….10 Friday, July 12 – Art of Listening Presentation I………………………………………………………………………..11 Workshops……………………………………………………………………………15 Poster Abstracts…………………………………………………………………....19 Presentation II………………………………………………………………………30 Roundtable……………………………………………………………………………33 Concert…………………………………………………………………………………35 Saturday, July 13 – Science of Listening Presentation III……………………………………………………………………..38 Roundtable……………………………………………………………………………41 Workshops……………………………………………………………………………42 Presentation IV……………………………………………………………………...46 Presentation V……………………………………………………………………….49 Concert………………………………………………………………………………….53 Sunday, July 14 – Experiential Presentations Presentation 6……………………………………………………………………….56 Lecture/Concert I…………………………………………………………………..59 Lecture/Concert II…………………………………………………………………62 In Absentia/Papers to be Submitted…………………………………………………64 DLI Certificate Program & Certificate Holders…………………………………...66 RPI Campus Map……………………………………………………………………………...67 Off-Campus Dining Suggestions………………………………………………………..68 Index of Presenters, Composers and Performers……………………………….70 4 4 ; 5 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE FRIDAY, JULY 12th Day One: The Art of Listening 8-9am: Breakfast and Registration (Complimentary in Studio Beta) 9am: Art of Listening Keynote: Deep Listening: Across Boundaries/ Across Abilities (Studio 2) Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening Founder 10:00-10:30am: Coffee Break (Complimentary in Studio Beta) 10:30am-12pm: Presentation Session 1 (Studio 2) Listening and Sounding in Hong Kong Viv Corringham Networked Migrations: Listening to and Performing the “in-between” Space Ximena Alarcón A Sonically-Engaged Collaborative Sound Art Practice Sean Taylor The Composer Isn't There: A Personal Exploration of Place in Fixed Media Composition Hilary Mullaney 12-1pm: Lunch (Available at Evelyn's Cafe, EMPAC 5th floor) 1-3pm: Workshops Studio Beta: 1-2pm: Game / No Game: Deep Listening and Music Games for the Educator's Toolkit Jennifer Wilsey 2-3pm: Unlocking the Young Deep Listener Through Rhythm Sticks and Pitched Tubes Leila Ramagopal Pertl Studio 2: 1-2pm: Avatar Orchestra Metaverse/Deep Listening/Cyberspace/Global Awareness Viv Corringham, Björn Eriksson, Brenda Hutchinson, Norman Lowrey, Tina Pearson 2-3pm: Awareness Through Animation: Animated Notation and Deep Listening Practices in Education, Performance and Composition Ryan Ross Smith 3-4:30pm: Poster Presentations : See Full List of Presenters on Page 19 (EMPAC 7th flr, Lobby & Center for Communication Culture and Cognition) Coffee Break (Complimentary in Studio Beta) 4:30-6pm: Presentation Session 2 (Studio 2) Incorporating Deep Listening Practices into Secondary General Music Classrooms Monique Buzzarté Researching Sound in Silence Stijin Dickel Using Deep Listening to Teach Entrepreneurship Brian Pertl Pedagogical and Community Oriented Project on Improvisation, by PFL Traject Jean-Charles François 6-7:30pm: Dinner (Available at Evelyn's Cafe, EMPAC 5th floor) 7:30-9pm: Round Table: Deep Listening and Pedagogy (Studio 2) Moderator: Maud Hickey with: Thomas Ciufo, Michael Duch, Jonathan Hoefs, Margaret Anne Schedel, Mary Simoni 5 9pm: Deep Listening Art/Science Concert I 5 ; 6 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE SATURDAY, JULY 13th Day Two: The Science of Listening 8-9am: