The difference between hearing and listening | Pauline Oliveros | TEDxIndianapolis

[@lawrencevelogirl]

Rest in peace, Pauline. You'll always be an inspiration.

[@singlesideman]

Years ago I shared the bill with Pauline at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, after having been regaled with entertaining story after story about her from my music composition mentor and dear friend. Very sadly she wasn't feeling up to a performance that night, and despite the huge compliment of sharing the bill with Francisco López as well and meeting him, I was devastated that I didn't get to meet Pauline, an influence on my own music so great and fundamental that I had unconsciously reinvented what she had already done years earlier without my knowing it, so much so that I've been deeply honored by reviewers comparing my work to hers. Pauline, I cannot thank you enough for the beautiful deep listening lessons you've taught so many of us, even without our knowledge. Long live Pauline Oliveros.

[@jakubrokita2261]

I first read about the "Deep Listening" album in post-soviet 90s Poland... There was no way to get the album, so we (me and friends) Imagined what that might sound like based on a survey article which held two paragraphs of summary about this album... fast forward to this century, Pauline's work reveals itself to me during academic research. Pure joy. Don't gatekeep. Share everything.

[@jjbaker]

4:16 "To hear is the physical means that enables perception, to listen is to give attention to what is perceived both acoustically and psychologically"

[@dAPERize]

I learned about Pauline in a class I am taking and plan to share her knowledge with my youngest students. Thank you for your work in this area.

[@FeonaLeeJones]

Pauline, you have no idea how many people you have influenced and inspired. Thank you for being such a powerful and receptive force in my music education. Your insights and guidance have forever change how we listen to music.

[@johnrakthai]

Feona Lee Jones how so? I just don’t see what the big deal is.

[@cheezewhiz7538]

@@johnrakthai a-hole she was an amazing composer

[@marimic]

@@cheezewhiz7538 and an amazing person, if you were so privileged as to know her.

[@caseyfrensz5983]

You never fail to inspire me Pauline. I love listening to you speak and digesting your deep message. I miss you, and hope that our paths will cross again soon!

[@philipgelb967]

The person i so wish i could talk to and listen to in these insane times is Pauline. I miss her tremendously and think of her all the time. One of the most amazing human beings i have ever been fortunate to befriend!

[@tomvarner7943]

peace to you, Philip -- yes. And, sharing this with students today.

[@philipgelb967]

@@tomvarner7943 Than you Tom.

[@julianlange8132]

I cried instantly when I heard deep listening, idk why! Best ambience ive heard

[@joewhitt38]

A thrill to have worked/performed with you. Thank you for listening.

[@savaughndra]

This was beautiful on so many levels

[@michaelwertz9856]

She is the reverb that never stops ringing out

[@erindonovan]

An incredible voice that we all need to listen to. Miss this amazing woman...

[@cyork1288]

wonderful...for several years in my electronic studio...I improved, no intended beat, or rhythm...but if you listened sometimes both would be there.

[@Kazilikaya]

I first learned your name as a 9-year-old back in the summer of 1988: I became interested in synthesizers and I found a record in my dad's collection called "New sounds in electronic music" featuring the masterpiece *I of IV*.

[@isolateddemon9438]

THIS IS GOLD.😀

[@dominicgamboa2554]

Thanks for everything. I'm sure you're making the ones up at the sky listen.

[@AidaKhorsandi]

3:58 ... Golden!

[@christelmayland]

Thanks for your wisdom, please help the deaf up there

[@marymccutchan673]

This cistern reminds me of the "Lung" room that is used in Biosphere 2 for concerts. (the ceiling moves slowly)

[@sugarpuff8951]

wonderful Pauline

[@repeatle]

HERO

[@magnamarferreira]

Fantastic!

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

rip legend

[@ThilinaBlyz]

wow!!!

[@mickymao7313]

this looks so fun !

[@laurastokes4777]

She had a class of Tarot reading and Indian cooking in the music department at USD in 1968. She would project slides of cards on which to meditate and then we would learn to cook Indian meals. The final was to give reading gas for the head of the music dept., the provost of Muir college and his wife and the dean and his wife. They came to see if we should get credit for such a course. We did By the way Bob Kushner the artist was a fellow student who told me of this class as I was pondering sitting on the library steps what class to take

[@laurastokes4777]

UCSD

[@connoraugusto4615]

what is reading gas

[@laurastokes4777]

@@connoraugusto4615 omit gas That was a typo

[@blankeybeats8785]

Does anyone know where you can download the plugin / reverb of the cistern?? Would love to play with it.

[@YZOBEL5000]

NaissanceE

[@joebreskin]

I have spent many many hours making music in there. It is incredibly challenging

[@andrewbrown6307]

How many hours?

[@scottjampa6374]

Why indeed. That reverb, that's why.

[@robertobonini2431]

space time continuum

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@joshuatenenbaum6657]

RIP PAULINE

[@m-bronte]

hearing you are not listening and listening you are paying attention to hearing.

[@singlesideman]

Why must we musicians always have to tolerate passive aggressive coughing during performances? It's absolutely infuriating.

[@puipui7382]

if you are going to cough for up to ten minutes please excuse yourself. wth.

[@Salarsonguerra]

No comments, just listening...

[@konradhoroszko255]

IMPULSE RESPONSES of the Cistern, anybody? Peace

[@curtisunit]

The buddy my music listening poet mom never had but should've. The buddy I never had but would've been enriched beyond measure to have had. i knew a painter named Richard Allen Morris whose paintings would've been a suitable visual companion to her music.

[@tonywords6713]

intro sounds like 2001 a space odyssey

[@orderflowdojo]

bro so many people coughing jeezus... they got cornavirus

[@Aeraseth]

They were coughing so much during this, it was slightly annoying

[@maxatrillian]

yeah is this room filled with mustard gas or something

[@ellenrosenblatt5463]

She does remind me of Ringo.

[@laurenceburris6361]

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[@ajpip9719]

Wish people would stop coughing the whole time. Wtf. How rude

[@puipui7382]

yeah really. if your going to cough for 5 to ten minutes leave.

[@08bourquem]

yes but if you listen to the reverberation of the cough in the amphitheater it is the release of germs into the acoustics.

[@Axemang]

So now the body's reaction to throat irritation is rude? Think about that next time you get a cough in public.

[@tommont]

Keith Jarrett!

[@VarunTheKumar]

I want her shirt

[@NiZaRiOn]

Y'all should hear Jimmy Hendrix, not listen to it.

[@brunanski1626]

Can't anybody tell this woman to shut up? She doesn't let me hear the coughing

[@optiquemusic6204]

The irony is that listening to a crowded room may be unlistenable, especially if you have hearing sensitivities like Misophonia. Pauline has a good message if you're a music creator, but it is flawed.

[@juniiiior999]

elaborate

[@optiquemusic6204]

@@juniiiior999 Alright. Misophonia is a neurological condition where certain sounds can negatively affect your mood, ranging from blind rage to just feeling miserable. A listening exercise like this, whether it be in person or through a YT video, means that you Will be hearing every sniff, every cough, every throat-clearing and every sneeze, which Will sour your mood and make you feel like it was a mistake to come here.

[@theobscotch]

Pauline, mate... you're set on us not conflating listening and hearing, so stop conflating brain and mind. The brain cant listen.

[@nik8099]

How is she conflating brain and mind?

[@Malchior_Rises]

it's sad that you can't comprehend that the brain is what processes your puppet body

[@goosedcreativity12]

a savant

[@doreenporter8176]

Bye for now. Speak to you tomorrow.

[@JohnBorstlap]

What she describes here, is merely the normal practice of any professional musician, of any orchestral rehearsing: listening to sound as such, plus organising musical meaning which is conveyed through the sounds. She presents sound as such as separated from music, so what is the point? 'Deep listening' is normal practice in music life, and this lecture is merely taking-out a part of musical practice and blowing it up with philosophy so that it seems to be something 'new' and 'special'. It is nonsense.... like John Cage's fussy nonsense.

[@JohnBorstlap]

Obaysch I don't know her, never heard of her, and merely reacted to the video. No reason to take it personal.

[@davidboeving]

Idk, man. Deep listening, like John Cage's works, complicates the relationship of the performer and the audience, pulling the audience further into the compositional relationship, as did the work of Cage's teacher, Schoenberg, who also influenced Oliveros. Sure, all musicians consider space, but not in the way that Oliveros/Cage did; they highlighted space as a fundamental aspect of the performance.

[@JohnBorstlap]

David Boeving Are Cage's works really works? He took out the human element to let sounds 'be themselves' without human intervention. But art is always the result of human activity and human intervention. Schoenberg did quite the opposite of Cage, wanting to manipulate and invervene as much as possible, even to the extent of wanting to change listener's ears so that they understand his serial works. Sound as such is not music, because music is an art form and a product of human imagination and aesthetics. Pure sound and listening to it very attentively is something else, that's OK, but please don't call it music.

[@davidboeving]

John, "Are Cage's works really works?" Yes, they are. And no, he did not take out the human element; that's not even logically possible. He displaced the role of the performer, highlighting the role of the audience and audition, and did so in differing way depending on the work, most of which highlighted time as the main unit of composition over notes. Cage wrote extensively about his compositional method, just like Schoenberg. Cage's works focus on the aesthetics of time by focusing mainly on interval relations. And Schoenberg did not do "quite the opposite" either. Each exploded an accepted component of music as it was traditionally defined and experimented with that component; Schoenberg's process shaped Cage's process; Cage was Schoenberg's student; each explored relations of elements of music that had gone essentially unexplored previously. You should check out some of Cage's theoretical work; it really opens up what his musical works are doing.

[@JohnBorstlap]

David Boeving But Cage's 'works' just sound entirely uninteresting, lacking any aesthetic, artistic, musical content or value, and even as sound art they are boring to death. No, whatever theory Cage developed, it cannot excuse the silliness of the results. It is not music, I repeat. It is bad philosophy with acoustical silly demonstrations. Cage once got a full day at the Dutch national classical radio station to fill with his 'works' which was ridiculous in the extreme, with or without theory: plucking cactusses, burbling nautilus shells with water, etc. etc. In art, it is not the theory but the result that counts. Putting Cage and Schoenberg in some comparable category seems really missing the point of what they did entirely.