On Pauline Oliveros' deep listening as field method.
Section / Sound Practice
Sound is a way of knowing.
Sound is both a creative medium and a research methodology. To listen is to attend — to a place, a community, an environment. The work moves between original music, field recording, spatial audio, and a long-running music journal.
01 / Music — kLot
02 / Suburban Resonances — a listening project
Environment
Cicala, Bangalore
Ambience 01
Ambience / Pool Walk
Train, Far
Helicopter / Radio
Water Flow 01
Water Flow 02
Object
Door
Door / Open / Close / Open
Metal 01
Metal 02
Metal Cling
Concrete Scratches
Material
Paper 01
Paper 02
Paper 03
Rustle 02
Rustling Organics 02
Noise Organic
Gesture
Scribble 01
Scribble 03
Scribble 04
03 / Spatial Audio — Ambisonics
Four channels of presence.
An ongoing instrument and software practice oriented toward ecological documentation. The microphone is small enough to disappear into a forest and rugged enough to survive a monsoon. The recordings are intended to be listened to slowly, on headphones, in dim rooms.
04 / Listening as research — journal
Sandalwood forest at 3 a.m. — what isn't there anymore.
The drone of a small Indian town: an unintentional composition.
A note on stereo, mono, and the politics of perspective.
Listening sessions with weavers, three afternoons.
Re-reading Schafer in a year of city expansion.