For "Deep Listening Radio," the CDL is gathering short voice notes -- reflective, experimental, multilingual, fragmentary, or unexpected -- from around the world on what Pauline Oliveros or the practice of Deep Listening has taught you...
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I’m excited to perform tonight with Michael Century and @zachlayton.bsky.social at Time & Space Limited in Hudson, NY. We’ll be splitting the bill with Lea Bertucci. Show starts at 7pm!
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” -Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism
Tonight, I had one of my proudest moments as a parent: before going to bed, my two-year-old daughter Irene specifically requested that I sing “Joe Hill” three full times before I left.
The first fictional story about illegal deportations that comes to mind is Sweeney Todd—and that didn’t turn out so well for Judge Turpin. Just saying.
Union members flanking Paul Robeson in Peekskill, New York, 1949. Happy May Day!
One of my favorite lunch spots in the Loop! Glad it’s still there.
We are delighted to announce a call for proposals for our inaugural Deep Listening Residency & Commission!
Inviting artists and sonic practitioners to propose site-specific works that engage our campus community in Oliveros’ practices of sonic awareness:
www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/programs/cam...
Today my music theory students suggested that we should rename the Picardy 3rd the “American 3rd” and the French +6 chord the “American +6” chord 😂
In October of last year, I had the pleasure of visiting the University of Illinois for talks and a performance of my piece “stutter-step the concept.” I had a nice chat with Victor Zheng about the piece and about the collaboration.
You’re one of my oldest and dearest friends, and I care about you deeply even though I don’t get to see you as much as I used to!
So, they took a whole group of ten-year-old kids to watch a two hour movie about a man driving a tractor across Iowa. You can imagine how that went.
Not wanting to leave this preteen party crasher all alone, they looked to see what movies were playing at the theater that were rated G. Straight Story was the only one.
One of his classmates (who was not invited to the party) showed up anyway and proceeded to inform my parents that she wasn’t allowed to see any movies that weren’t rated G.
Funny story about this movie. When he was in elementary school, my brother had a birthday party where they were going to a movie theater.
