Forza immersione
Musical tone can boil thoughts away. This is the open secret of making music. Set the string to vibrating again, lock your hearing onto its energy and be absorbed into its disappearance.
W. A. Mathieu • The Listening Book
‘A canvas is never empty,’ says Cage, quoting Rauschenberg, and 4’33” bears that out, as random ambient sound – coughing, shifting, programmes rustling – becomes a kind of music. These works illustrate the impossibility of saying nothing: to represent nothing is to negate it by turning it into something – an image, a piece of music, a reflection of... See more
How ‘nothing’ has inspired art and science for millennia | Aeon Essays
Deep listening
Deep listening, a term coined in the 1960s by composer-experimentalist Pauline Oliveros, dives headfirst into that radical attentiveness. It encompasses the full-bodied, immersive act of being present and listening as a way to explore depths beyond what is simply heard. It toes the line between what is felt physically and emotionally... See more
Deep listening, a term coined in the 1960s by composer-experimentalist Pauline Oliveros, dives headfirst into that radical attentiveness. It encompasses the full-bodied, immersive act of being present and listening as a way to explore depths beyond what is simply heard. It toes the line between what is felt physically and emotionally... See more
The art of deep listening •A communal exploration of the potential of sound | Minimal Collective
