LISTENING QUESTIONS
from: Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice by Pauline Oliveros
1.What is your earliest memory of sound? How do you feel about it now?
I think my earliest memories of sound were of a television in a faraway room.
2. When do you notice your breath?
When it's cold out, or when I'm just did a strenuous activity.
3. What is attention?
I believe attention is ...
4. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece based on breath rhythms?
5. What sound reminds you of home?
6. Do you listen for sound in your dreams? What do you hear? How does it affect you?
Not actively, but when I do hear sound in my dreams, it is usually limited to speech.
7. The distinguished historian, Wiliam H. McNeil, has recently argued in his book Keeping Together in Time that "coordinated rhythmical activity is fundamental to life in society." Can you imagine tracking a rhythm
pattern in your daily life and writing about it?
8. Can you imagine rhythm pattern for the rhythm circle with your own form of notation?
9. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece for voices using attention patterns?
10. What is sound?
11. What is listening?
12. What action(s) is usually synchronized with sound?
13. When do you feel sound in your body?
Anytime my stomach growls when I am hungry.
14. What sound fascinates you?
15. What is a soundscape?
16. What are you hearing right now? How is it changing?
17. How many sounds can you hear all at once?
18. How far can you hear sounds?
It is hard to say since I am not that good at estimating distances. About from 30 to 40 ft depending on the sound.
19. Are you sure that you are hearing every thing that is to hear?
20. What more could you hear if you had bigger ears? (or smaller)
21. Can you hear more sounds if you are quiet? How many more?
22. How long can you listen?
23. When are you not listening?
24. Can you not listen when something is sounding?
25. Try not listen to anything. What happens?
26. How can you not listen if your ears never close?
When my attention is diverted elsewhere.
27. What meaning does any sound have for you?
28. What is favourite sound? How is it made? When can you hear it? Are you hearing it now?
My favourite sound is the sound of either an inkjet or laser printer makes as it prints a document. The sound is usually quiet enough not to draw too much attention to itself, and the actual sound itself changes often enough not
29. What is the soundscape of the space you are now occupying?
The soundscape of the walk home consists of the faint bells from the C-train,
30. How is the soundscape shaped? or what makes a soundscape?
I believe that a soundscape is created by the action and activity of the people/objects in a certain area.
31. What is the soundscape of your neighborhood?
32. What is the soundscape of your city?
33. How many different soundscapes can you imagine?
34. What would you like to have in your own soundscape?
35. What would you record to represent your soundscape?
36. What sound makes you speculative?
37. What sounds gives you chills?
38. What sound ruffles your scalp?
39. What sound changes your breathing?
40. What sound would you like whispered in your ear?
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