"Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening." - Pauline Oliveros
This is a commissioned piece in response to the late composer Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations, specifically Sonic Meditation 5: "Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears."
These pastels are a record of the shifting color and light on my studio walls at different times of day. I keyed the values in each piece to match the grey of the paper as closely as possible, in an effort to make the drawings disappear into silence when seen from a distance. It is only upon closer inspection - "deep listening... in every possible way to every possible thing" - that the subtle shifts in each piece emerge.
The Response Project is a commissioning initiative, created by Brianna Matzke, that asks composers and artists to create new work based on an existing piece or concept.
- Created: 2020
- Collections: 2020