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40 listening questions by Pauline Oliveros
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What is your earliest memory of sound? How do you feel about it now?
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When do you notice your breath?
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What is attention?
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Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece based on breath rhythms?
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What sound reminds you of home?
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Do you listen for sound in your dreams? What do you hear? How does it affect you?
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The distinguished historian, William H. McNeil, has recently argued in his book Keeping Together in Time that “coordinated rhythmical activity is fundamental to life in society.” Can you imagine tracking a rhythm pattern in your daily life and writing about it?
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Can you imagine a rhythm pattern for the rhythm circle with your own form of notation?
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Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece for voices using attention patterns?
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What is sound?
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What is listening?
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What action(s) is usually synchronised with sound?
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When do you feel sound in your body?
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What sound fascinates you?
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What is a soundscape?
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What are you hearing right now? How is it changing?
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How many sounds can you hear all at once?
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How far away can you hear sounds?
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Are you sure that you are hearing every thing that there is to hear?
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What more could you hear if you had bigger ears? (or smaller)
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Can you hear more sounds if you are quiet? How many more?
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How long can you listen?
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When are you not listening?
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Can you not listen when something is sounding?
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Try not listening to anything. What happens?
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How can you not listen if your ears never close?
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What meaning does any sound have for you?
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What is your favourite sound? How is it made? When can you hear it? Are you hearing it now?
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What is the soundscape of the space you are now occupying?
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How is the soundscape shaped? or what makes a soundscape?
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What is the soundscape of your neighbourhood?
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What is the soundscape of your city?
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How many different soundscapes can you imagine?
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What would you like to have in your own soundscape?
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What would you record to represent your soundscape?
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What sound makes you speculative?
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What sound gives you chhills?
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What sound ruffles your scalp?
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What sound changes your breathing?
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What sound would you like whispered in your ear?