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 / Releases & field recordings
S.01
Cauvery, At Dusk
Field recording / 04:12
High-frequency chirps of indigenous crickets during the monsoon transition.
S.02
Loom Songs
Album / 2023
An album composed from the rhythms of disappearing handlooms.
S.03
The Madiwalas (OST)
Score / 2024
Original score for Chapter 01 of A Declining Commons.
S.04
Slow Vessel
EP / 2022
Three pieces in extended duration. Granular, patient, oceanic.
02 / 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.
03 / 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.