Sonic Meditations with the Full Moon

NEXT SESSION: Saturday July 24th 6.00 - 7.30pm GMT + 1

Last month we met a new face amongst the trees, a local historian who added a new dimension to our knowledge of the node. We closed our eyes and ears to go deeply inside, feeling welcomed on return by the green leaves and parakeets. We listened with the bowl gong, following the sound image until just out of reach and striking anew. Join us to sound and listen together again this month!

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A monthly meeting under the trees on Wanstead flats, a large piece of common land in the East of London and a beautiful place to come together to explore our inner and outer worlds through listening and sounding.

We hope to gather a regular group of listeners in order to build our relationship with each other and the work over regular meetings. We will explore Pauline Oliveros' 'Sonic Meditations' - 25 'special procedures' for participatory practice that expands sonic awareness, with the overarching purpose of re-situating musicality within the collective, and with the specific purpose of healing. We will work towards holding the sessions with a non-verbal atmosphere, once the group is established

Pauline Oliveros' 'Sonic Meditations' were first published in 1971, after a period of participatory development with the ♀ Ensemble. Participants are asked to actively make sound, imagine sound, listen to present sound and remember sound. Voice is the primary instrument, although some of the meditations can be adapted to use instruments. The meditations are open to all, with no special skills or no previous experience needed, just a willingness to participate, and commit to the given conditions.

Healing can occur within the group through regular shared experience of inner and outer worlds, increased awareness of the present moment and ones surroundings, and attention to and understanding of ones past experiences or values, as witnessed by the group.

"In process a kind of music occurs naturally. It's beauty is not through intention, but is intrinsically the effectiveness of it's healing power. This may be felt by the group, and the music relates to the people who make it through participation and sharing, as a stream or river whose water offers refreshment and cleansing to those who find it."

(Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditations Introduction II 1974)

The meet up is facilitated by Blanc Sceol - artists and certified Deep Listening® practitioners Stephen Shiell & Hannah White.

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