A Year of Deep Listening at Mac's Backs

Name: A Year of Deep Listening at Mac's Backs
Start: 2025-02-08T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-08T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118

Schedule

Sat Feb 08 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118 | Cleveland Heights, OH

Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive performance, as well as listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination, and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness, and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth.(from The Center for Deep Listening)
A Year of Deep Listening is a publication of 365 scores for listening gathered by the Center for Deep Listening in celebration of the legacy of groundbreaking composer Oliveros.
Originally begun online, in honor of what would have been Oliveros' 90th birthday (May 30, 2022), the project shared one score per day across social media for 365 days. The book version of A Year of Deep Listening brings these scores together into one beautiful and historic volume. An expression of the Deep Listening community, the scores were created by over 300 artists--ranging from prize winning composers to ear-minded grocery store clerks, from those who worked closely with Oliveros for decades to those who never met her.
Three Northeast Ohio musicians, two of whom have scores in this book, will be at Mac's to discuss and perform their work on Saturday, February 8th at 7 pm. They will lead several scores from the book for any audience members who wish to participate.
bbob drake is a Cleveland sound artist, electronic luthier, educator, and field recordist. He was fortunate to have studied briefly with Deep Listening founder Pauline Oliveros, and is a certified Deep Listening facilitator.
Kristen Ban Drake is a performance poet and sound artist, combining improvised electronic instruments and voice; she is also a certified Deep Listening facilitator. Together they lead the monthly Cleveland Deep Listening Circle, and have conducted listening workshops for various local groups. They also perform, with Butoh artist Laura Swedenborg, as the movement/sound group "Mouse Vision"
Grace Harper is a pianist, composer and improvisor, a long-time Mac's staffer, and author of Grace Notes on our website.
Event address:
Mac's Backs Books on Coventry
1820 Coventry Rd,
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118