WHEN: March 16, 2024 4:00 PM (followed by a private screening of Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros, dir. Daniel Weintraub at 6pm)
WHERE: Woodhaven EcoCulture Centre, 969 Raymer Rd. Kelowna, BC. **Meet at 4 pm at the gates to the FEELed Lab at 969 Raymer Rd**
WHAT: Listening and Sounding in the Dark :: a late afternoon listening walk and sounding of the text scores of Pauline Oliveros, with Anne Bourne
Join FEELed Lab Visiting Artist Anne Bourne for a gentle listening walk in Woodhaven EcoCulture Centre / Woodhaven Regional Park. Anne will guide us in a contemplative walk and sounding, drawing on the work of sound artist and proponent of Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros. All bodies and ages welcome.
Following the walk, those who wish can join Anne and friends in the FEELed Lab for hot drinks and nourishment, and an intimate private screening of the documentary film Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros (1 h 57min) directed by Daniel Weintraub, Produced by IONE, at 6pm.
HOW TO GET HERE: Directions and instructions for parking can be found here.
** Roads and paths at the FEELed Lab in winter can be snowy and icy; please take good care. **
*NOTE: If you are driving from campus or downtown and have room in your car, please DM us at @Feeledlab or email us at feeledlab@gmail.com. Let’s car pool if possible!
NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED; ALL WELCOME!
for all voices
symbiosis borrowed from Greek symbíōsis; living together, companionship; from symbiō-, variant stem of symbioûn ‘to live with, live together’; (from sym- sym- + bioûn ‘;to live, pass one’s life’; derivative of bíos ‘life’
sound arrives, to illuminate the stillness, sonify the dark
listen into the ground, contemplate proximity and distance
beyond noise, know discernment, radiance and care
the event will draw minimal electricity to offer a shared experience of perception in
darkness
generate safe space through expanded sensory perception, discernment and attention
an opportunity to accumulate choral sound fields in community as experiential peace activism
Anne Bourne artist/ composer/ cellist/ mentor. With a sound field listening practice, Anne leads collective creativity, in a model of equanimity, for voices to improvise together. An electroacoustic composer, Anne captures emergent streams of cello sonics, voice, and field recordings, for spatial installation, in collaboration with those who stand for the wild and all life forms. Seasoned in International concert touring and recording, Anne improvised significantly with composer Pauline Oliveros, developing a deep listening practice in the Sangre de Cristo mountains. and then developing her distinct listening walks on the shores of Lake Ontario and Sounding Difference collective creative experience, at the Music Gallery in Toronto. Chalmers Fellow, Anne observes shorelines as difference in coalescence, walking. Anne composes in attunement to the spectral wave patterns of water.
All FEELed Lab events strive to be feminist, anticolonial, antiracist, queer and accessible spaces. Currently, participants must use a flight of stairs to access the premise.
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