Deep Listening® Workshop

How do we listen? What sounds do we notice/perceive and when? How can we change and grow our sonic focus?  

 Deep Listening® is a practice developed by Pauline Oliveros, the late pioneering experimental music composer, which facilitates an awareness of our attention to and relationship with sound. This practice invites us to be aware of our attention, allowing our senses to be opened, and enabling us to feel a greater connection to our bodies, to others, and to the environment. 

Join Deep Listening® Practitioner Nomi Epstein for a workshop consisting of a series of exercises in listening, sonic meditation, movement, and imagination to open our senses to develop new ways of interacting with the world around us. 

 What to bring: comfortable clothing, walking shoes, a notebook & writing utensil, a small mat or blanket to sit on (if desired). Chairs will be provided for anyone who prefers a chair to sitting on the ground.  

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Check-in for the workshop will be outside Story Chapel (aka the Visitor Center).  

Capacity: 15 people

Age requirement: 16+ 

Please note: there will be changing terrain throughout the walking experience moving from pavement to gravel to grass. There will also be some small hills.  

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NOMI EPSTEIN is as an experimental music practitioner devoted to a focused listening practice. Her work embraces subtlety, an uncovering of sounds, and a gratitude for the daily sounds she finds around her. 

Nomi is also a composer/improvisor/curator. Her music centers around her interest in sonic fragility. Her compositions have been performed throughout the US and Europe by SurPlus, ICE, Wet Ink, Mivos, Wild Rumpus, Dedalus, and Southland. Her third and most recent portrait album featuring Apartment House/Vibrant Matter was released under Another Timbre (February 2024).  

An active practitioner and advocate of experimental music, she is founder/director of a•pe•ri•od•ic, the critically acclaimed, experimental ensemble. Her curatorial work includes large scale festivals as in the Chicago area 2012 centennial John Cage Festival, the Wandelweiser and Ustvolskaya Festivals, and concerts across the US/abroad. She continues to research, write, and lecture on experimental music and serves as Associate Professor of Composition at Berklee. 

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