#2 - Why Sound? What might heightened listening offer?

Last week (#1) I introduced Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening practices
and R. Murray Schafer and ear cleaning practices. This week we will further explore what focussing on sound and listening might offer that our other senses might not. I’ll start by making some connections between two main rationales for Oliveros’ and Schafer’s attention to sound.
1. Sound was the medium of their musical practice as composers (still is).
2. They felt that our soundscapes were changing; both disappearing and getting too loud (still are?)
I then want to explore the suggestion that we, along with our institutions, have become ocularcentric: The idea that sight is atop a Western imposed hierarchy of senses.

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