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I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.

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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…

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I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

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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…

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Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

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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.

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Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

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Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

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Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.

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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…

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