Occupation: Composer Birth: May 30, 1932 Death: November 25, 2016
I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones..
I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players..
There are these sounds that come from outside that work really well if you're listening. If you're not listening, if you're blocking them out, then y….
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the so….
When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize..
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active proce….
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music..
It takes time because the habitual response to that is very deep. It goes back to our earliest responses as babies. You have to feel safe, and if a s….
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions..
In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it started. And….
I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, wha….
It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to….
The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to….
We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not….
You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things ha….
People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to listen….
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening.
Deep Listening Institute is dissolving and is now the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The legacy of the twenty o….
Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932..
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to k….
Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds..