Name: Steve Orfield on the Benefits of Boredom by transcendental media + patrick shen
Duration: 37 s
Description: A clip of Steve Orfield, founder of Orfield Labs ("the Quietest Place in the World"), that likely won't make it into the film but worthy of sharing, in which he talks about over-structuring children's lives and the value of boredom.

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A clip of Steve Orfield, founder of Orfield Labs ("the Quietest Place in the World"), that likely won't make it into the film but worthy of sharing, in which he talks about over-structuring children's lives and the value of boredom.

Steve Orfield on the Benefits of Boredom

“Silence is the inexpressible, it is the ineffable. It is half of our existence in terms of our interaction with this world of discourse and experience” -Dr Helen Lees

In her podcast Searching for Silence, Sian Williams explores the rising interest in silent practices such as yoga, meditation and silent retreats as a response to our increasingly committed relationship with technology. She talks to sound expert David Hendy and director of In Pursuit of Silence, Patrick Shen, to investigate how our use of technology might affect our mental and physical health and why now more than ever, people are seeking refuge from it.

Sensing her answer could be found in the silence, Sian journeys to the “quietest room on Earth”, attempting to answer the question what is silence and can it ever be experienced? 

Inspired by works from George Prochnik and John Cage, Sian asks the listener to put their phone down for a while and appreciate the silence. Whether this is a literal silence or a silence in the mind as a tool to mediate our incessant need for stimuli, Sian aims to find out in her exciting and unique search for silence.

Produced and narrated by Sian Williams.

Music composed by Anton Pearson and Daniel Ansel. 

A special thanks to contributors David Hendy, Patrick Shen, Helen Lees, Julian Treasure and Louise Gillespie-Smith.

Also thanks to Bari Ruck for the guided meditation and Bryan Zink for his music. The full meditation can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/bari-ruck/guided-meditation-and-music

Searching for Silence - Audio Documentary

Journalist, novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer has become one of our most eloquent explorers of what he calls the "inner world" — in himself and in the 21st Century world at large. He travels the globe from Ethiopia to North Korea and lives in Japan. But he also experiences a remote Benedictine hermitage as his second home, retreating there many times each year. In this intimate conversation, we explore the discoveries he's making and his practice of "the art of stillness.”

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/pico-iyer-the-art-of-stillness/7615

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Pre-order the double digital album which includes the entire original score for In Pursuit of Silence composed by Alex Lu and 10 recordings of silent places captured around the world during the making of In Pursuit of Silence. Download the sample and pre-order at pursuitofsilence.com/silenceisasound

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In this episode we talk with Steve Bissinger about his career, how he ended up at Skywalker Ranch, and the new film In Pursuit of Silence. The film is unlike anything you have ever seen and presented a lot of unique sound challenges.  As Sound Supervisor on the project, Steve walks us through how this film is different than his main gig on the Netflix series House of Cards and the upcoming MindHunter series.

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We make non-fiction films like Flight from Death, The Philosopher Kings, La Source, In Pursuit of Silence, The Dawn Chorus, and Day of a Stranger.

Steve Orfield on the Benefits of Boredom

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