“For me deep listening is a lifelong practice. The more I listen the more I learn to listen. Deep listening involves going below the surface of what is heard, expanding to the whole field of sound while finding focus. This is the way to connect with the acoustic environment, all that inhabits it, and all that there is.” —Pauline Oliveros
Join us for a screening of Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros, followed by a Q&A with IONE, Oliveros’s longtime partner in life and work, and director Daniel Weintraub. The film introduces the work and life of Pauline Oliveros, a composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, innovator, and humanitarian committed to building community through listening and understanding.
This event is the first of a two-part series intended to open ways of understanding Pauline Oliveros’s recording Accordion and Voice, currently on view in the installation Womens Work. The second event is an online deep listening workshop facilitated by IONE on May 20, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Speakers
IONE is an author, playwright, director, and improvisational text-sound artist. In addition to multiple international performances, she has created numerous large music theater works with her creative partner and spouse, the composer Pauline Oliveros. These Include the operas The Nubian Word for Flowers and A Phantom Opera. Other works include Njinga the Queen King, The Return of a Warrior, and Io and Her and the Trouble with Him. IONE also created the film Dreams of the Jungfrau, with sound design by Oliveros. IONE’s memoir Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color, was a New York Times Notable Book. A journalist for many years, IONE published in major magazines and newspapers including the Village Voice, the Gannet Chain, and Vogue. She was artistic director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd, for 15 years and is currently a deep listening consultant at the Center for Deep Listening in Troy, New York. As founding director of the Ministry of Maåt (MoM), in Kingston, New York, IONE conducts workshops and seminars throughout the world, encouraging a vibrant international community of writers, visual artists, and musicians. IONE received the 2019 Arts Mid Hudson Individual Artists Award and a Certificate of Merit from the General Assembly of the State of New York, and was a member of the Kingston Arts Commission for several years. IONE’s most recent opera, TOUCH, created with composer Karen Power, premiered at Irish National Opera in 2021.
Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros has been Daniel Weintraub’s primary focus since a conversation with Oliveros started them down this path. During the process, Weintraub also created two documentary shorts on the work of Oliveros: Don’t Call Them Lady Composers and Montage for Improvisers. Weintraub is passionate about youth arts education, both as an educator and as director of Forge Media, an apprentice-based production company offering film students professional experience working on videos for local organizations focused on supporting and building community. Weintraub is a musician, producer, and recording engineer, and has worked as a sound mixer for artists including Lionel Loouke, the Felice Brothers, Karen Ann, and Molecular Affinity, a trio with Pauline Oliveros, Thollem McDonas, and Nels Cline.
Accessibility
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