Mission Statement

Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. fosters a unique approach to music, literature, art and meditation, and promotes innovation among artists and audience in creating, performing, recording and educating with a global perspective.

What is Deep Listening?

Deep Listening® is a philosophy and practice developed by Pauline Oliveros that distinguishes the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary selective nature of listening. The result of the practice cultivates appreciation of sounds on a heightened level, expanding the potential for connection and interaction with one's environment, technology and performance with others in music and related arts.

The practice of Deep Listening provides a framework for artistic collaboration and musical improvisation and gives composers, performers, artists of other disciplines, and audiences new tools to explore and interact with environmental and instrumental sounds.

The Deep Listening Institute fosters creativity in artists of all ages and levels of artistic development by holding workshops and retreats; performing and publishing new work; and developing new performance technologies. 

Books on Deep Listening:

Deep Listening: A Composer's Handbook by Pauline Oliveros
Listening in Dreams by Ione

Executive Director

Pauline Oliveros is one of America's most vital composers. Deep Listening, her lifetime practice, is fundamental to her composing, performing and teaching. She serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY; Darius Milhaud Artist-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland CA; and president of the Deep Listening Institute in Kingston NY.

President


David Felton has spent his life experimenting with new forms of journalism and television writing. At the Los Angeles Times he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work covering the first Watts uprising and wrote a three-act play documenting the Summer of Love. At Rolling Stone Magazine his five-part study of Charles Manson, including a pre-trial interview, won the National Magazine Award. He edited Hunter S. Thompson's seminal Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Felton produced and wrote "MTV: the Reagan Years" for public television and helped develop the "Beavis and Butt-Head" show for MTV. In recent years he has run MTV Labs to encourage creative experimentation by the employees of MTV Networks. He is the author of Mindfuckers: a Source Book on the Rise of Acid Fascism in America.

Artistic Director

Ione is an author, playwright and poet whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family Four Generations of American Women of Color, Nile Night: Remembered Texts from The Deep, Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream! She is the playwright and director of Njinga the Queen King, the dance opera Io and Her and the Trouble with Him, She is the director and writer of The Lunar Opera; Deep Listening For_Tunes and Dreams of the Jungfrau, an experimental narrative film shot high in the Swiss Alps.

Ione is also an improvising spoken word performer and sound artist who performs frequently in the United States and internationally. A dedicated educator and counselor who specializes in dreams and the creative process, Ione conducts seminars and retreats throughout the world. She is the Director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc an organization specializing in women and community and she is the Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.

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