This workshop includes an introduction to the life and work of composer, performer and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros, a pioneer of electronic music who created the term “Deep Listening”, a practice of radical attentiveness to sound. Oliveros described Deep Listening as “a practice that is intended to heighten and expand consciousness of sound in as many dimensions of awareness and attentional dynamics as humanly possible”.

Often called grande-dame of American Minimalism Oliveros created her “Sonic Meditations” in 1974, a text score to help practitioners make sounds, imagine sounds, listen to, and remember sounds.
Following Oliveros’ instructions we will find out how her practice of Deep Listening might connect us virtually and attempt those meditations that can be performed in a virtual space i.e. “Pacific Tell” or “Telepathic Improvisation”.

• The workshop will be in English, on Jitsi platform.

• This workshop is free!

• To register, send an e-mail to soundsqueervienna@gmail.com

• Refund policy: We don’t do refunds, as we are a voluntary based collective and all the money goes towards the artists.

BIO
Tony Renaissance is a musician and artist based in Vienna. They have released their first EP Dreamreality online on their label Tender Matter in June 2020 and via Skug Magazine and their event series The Future at fluc Vienna in September 2020.