DEEP LISTENING Workshop Series

165 Cornell Street,Kingston NY 12401

24 February, 2023

Description

Workshop exercises include energy/body awareness, listening and sounding meditation and dream awareness. Musical experience is not necessary, all are welcome to explore. Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective 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. Excerpt from Center for Deep Listening at RPI Lisa Barnard Kelley is a vocalist and transdisciplinary artist residing in Kingston, NY. Steeped in traditional theater, vocal and performance studies in her youth, Lisa’s creative process continues to evolve through explorations of identity, musical genres and styles, adaptation of personal dreams to performance, her family’s immigration story from the Philippines, female archetypes across cultures, Eastern philosophy and a recognition of metaphysical and spiritual practices. Lisa’s performances and writing explore womanhood, grief and loss, dreams and the confluence of self in nature and the cosmos. Lisa is a Deep Listening certificate holder and an ordained high priestess and board member of the Ministry of Maåt. Her introduction to Deep Listening began on a journey with Pauline Oliveros and Ione to Southern Italy to study the mysteries of the Black Madonna and the sacred ruins while also taking measurements of acoustical resonance of those ruins. The journey’s intersection of science and the sacred impacted Lisa so profoundly she spent the next ten years working closely with Pauline and Ione as a staff member of the Deep Listening Institute. Kelley studied and assisted at Deep Listening Retreats in New York, Spain and the UK. Lisa is a passionate arts and community advocate. She is active in her local community as a the founding Executive Director of the Kingston Midtown Arts District, member of the Arts Commission for the City of Kingston, as well as a volunteer and alumni artist of the O+ Festival.