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Re: Subtle Listening workshop NYC - Oct 28 & 29

Subject: Re: Subtle Listening workshop NYC - Oct 28 & 29
From: "Tony Whitehead" soundings23
Date: Tue Oct 9, 2012 7:30 am ((PDT))
I'm intrigued by the course, but UK based. Are you planning at all to
publish anything about the methods you employ and the responses of the
participants? And, indeed, are you planning to bring the course over here
at any point?

all the best

Tony

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Kim Cascone <> wrote:

> **
>
>
> http://www.consciousdancer.com/events/subtle-listening-workshop
>
> Press Release
> September 24, 2012
>
> ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***
>
> 
>
> http://eyebeam.org/events/subtle-listening-inner-ear-training-for-the-sound-artist
>
> ***Subtle Listening Workshop***
>
> where: Eyebeam
> 540 West 21st Street
> New York, NY 10011
>
> dates: Sunday, Oct 28 & Monday 29
> time: 10am -- 4pm
> ***with a public presentation & concert on Monday Oct 29 at 9pm
>
> Participants will learn how to develop their subtle sense of listening.
> Subtle listening isn't listening attentively to barely audible sounds.
> Subtle Listening is the ability to hear sounds as shapes, contours and
> textures and, via meditation techniques, map them to internal states,
> developing a deeper awareness and sensitivity to the environment.
>
> During the workshop we will practice techniques culled from Jungian
> psychology, Hermetic philosophy, Rhythmanalysis, synesthesia, paradox &
> Buddhist mediation and brain entrainment. Subtle Listening is not just
> another meditation class, the workshop participants will work towards
> creating a sound art piece derived from their experiences in the
> workshop -- and there is a possibility of pieces being broadcast on radio.
>
> While the workshop is designed with developing one's auditory sense in
> mind any type of artist can participate. Whether you are a poet, writer,
> photographer, painter, filmmaker, dancer, musician or sound artist your
> work will benefit from a heightened, subtle sense of being connected to
> the world around you.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Registration site: http://subtlelisteningnyc.eventbrite.com/
>
> For more info:
>
> http://eyebeam.org/events/subtle-listening-inner-ear-training-for-the-sound-artist
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Kim Cascone studied electronic music at the Berklee College of Music and
> privately at the New School in Manhattan. He founded Silent Records in
> 1985 and has released more than 50 albums of electronic music on Silent,
> anechoic, Sub Rosa, Mille Plateaux, Raster-Noton and Monotype. Cascone
> has performed with Merzbow, Keith Rowe, Scanner, John Tilbury, Tony
> Conrad, Pauline Oliveros and worked as assistant music editor on two
> David Lynch films. Cascone founded the .microsound list in 1999, has
> written for MIT Press and Contemporary Music Review. His writing is
> included in many books on sound art.
>
> For more information please contact: 
>
> ###
>
>
> 
>












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