The idea of listening as activism emerged through the work of Pauline Oliveros, who died on 24 November 2016. Earlier this year, the founder of the Deep Listening Band in 1988 was inducted into the Capital Region Thomas Edison Music Awards (known as the Eddies) Hall of Fame.

The American composer and accordionist, who was born in 1932, became a pioneer of post-war experimental, particularly electronic, music and was known for her recordings made in deeply reverberant spaces, including cathedrals and underground caverns.

Her ‘Deep Listening’ concept was initially a kind of pun and followed a ...

 

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