Deep Listening – an Integration
The term “Deep Listening” comes from contemporary musician and teacher Pauline Oliveros, who coined the phrase in 1991 and wrote a book by the same name in 2005. Written for composers and musicians, “Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice” presents a number of practical exercise to help students become aware of the different ways to listen. Oliveras encourages listeners to control their own movements between the different domains. Thus one need not identify with one approach or the other, but rather be firmly in the driver’s seat, charting one’s own experience. Obviously, the tenets of deep listening lend themselves very well to the study and appreciation of natural sounds.