Author: Pauline Oliveros
Publisher: Ignota
Paperback
Staff Pick! Emma says...
Quantum Listening was a lecture from 1999 by Pauline Oliveros, expanding on Deep Listening - a meditation practice focusing on sound from within, sound from one’s environment and the ever-changing relationship between the two. Deep Listening promises to take us ‘below the surface of our consciousness’ and ‘dissolve limiting boundaries’ by illuminating the interconnectedness between all sounds and, in turn, all things. Following on from this practice, Quantum Listening explores the community value of enhanced sensory perception in the technological age and fantasises about a future in which empathy is built through unspoken bonds, the exchange of sonic energy and trespass into the imagination, unreality and the mystery of the universe. The reader of this chapbook is invited to listen to everything, in as many ways as possible, and bring about social change by starting from within. Beautifully concise and argued with calm precision. Profoundly psychedelicious. Recommended reading setting: dawn or dusk.