THIS IS NOT A SOUND BATH - The Art & Science of Deeper Listening
Venue: Method Kala Ghoda
Date: Sunday, 23nd August
Time: 5 PM Onwards
The late Pauline Oliveros helped write the history of early electronic music and then, as tends to be the case with originators, spent thirty years being glanced over. In 1988 she went down a manhole into an empty two million gallon water tank with a trombone player and an engineer running battery-powered gear. The group played into that cavernous, reverb-filled space and let it talk back. That record is Deep Listening from the year 1989.
Down there the room was the instrument and the players were just feeding it. Which is a fine thing to learn in a cistern but an inconvenient thing to bring into a record store. Hearing happens to you. Listening is work. And the sharpest ears are usually the worst at it, because training teaches you to grab one sound and trash the other four hundred. Oliveros called that grabbing ‘focal attention’. The alternative to that (global attention) is actually worse for reviewing records and better for being alive.
So we test it all. For the first hour we won't listen to a single record, which for a shop that sells records is a strange position to take, but we're taking it anyway. Intensive breathwork, voice, silence and walking, with the silence being the longest and hardest part to get through. Only at the end do the records go on. Two of them in total, heard with different ears than the ones you walked in with. And some journaling, because Oliveros treated the notebook as equipment too.
No musical background is required to participate. One or two of you might actually feel worse for having one. Notebooks will be provided. Bring just your ears.
If space is available, walk-ins will be welcome but at the ticket price of 250INR.
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