For Jeff and Jacky, and the nature listeners

Listees!

It has been remarkable, the amount of stuff converging. And the
interest in natural sounds, as sparked by Jacky Ligon and Jeff Scott
reminded me of a quote I saw recently from one of our lifetime's
truly singular and great people, Pauline Oliveros. As part of a
background piece on her for a recent Los Angeles concert, there was
this:

"Pauline Oliveros is the originator of the concept of "deep
listening," a practice combining improvisation with meditation and
the incorporation of environmental sounds into the space of
performance. About the genesis of her practice she has
written, "Shortly after receiving the gift of my tape recorder in
1953 I placed the microphone in the window of my San Francisco
apartment and recorded the sound environment....although I thought
that I was listening while recording I was surprised to find sounds
on the tape that I had not heard consciously. With this discovery I
gave myself a meditation: "Listen to everything all the time and
remind yourself when you are not listening".

Yes indeed.

With admiration for you all,
Jon