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Air Apparent

1/10/2018

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Hello again, friends!

I’m back! Well, I’ve always been here…

I guess I should say, “the blog is back!”

This round of entries is going to be pretty different than the NYC flute times with Robert (I miss those days so!). A ton has happened since then, and now I’m in Arizona working on my PhD at Arizona State University. This spring is my second semester; in the fall, I did a lot of research on Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening, the practice of listening to all sounds at all times. Stemming from that work, I’ve identified a goal for myself of committing to a weekly listening practice. I anticipate that this blog will become my little listening journal to document the sounds along the way. And this is week one!

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I decided to spend some time at Air Apparent, a “skyspace” by James Turrell on the ASU campus. My advisor showed me the structure when I first visited ASU, and this was my return to the spot. I sat for about 30 minutes, just listening and sometimes watching the clouds through the open “ceiling.” Striking was that I passed a plethora of loud people on my way to the space, but it seemed like they all vanished once I was inside. I mean, I didn’t hear a single human voice while I sat. Of course, that could have been the intense construction going on nearby...or the road noise...but for all the machinery going on, which indicated the presence of humans, I didn’t hear anything human. (Maybe think about that for a minute.) Now, I understand that excessive sound is tiring to our bodies and mind, but since I had knowingly placed myself in an urban soundscape, I decided to just roll with it.

Like I said, lots of road noise and machine sounds.  

One sharp bird call.

Planes overhead.

Increased density of bird calls...have they been there all along and I was just unaware? (There’s a life message there somewhere...)

Machine beeps to the left and right. Left. Right.

And my favorite:
Beeps on pitches “ti” and “do” - I couldn’t believe it! Their sounds danced. I smiled. It was actually pretty beautiful.

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 January 9, 2018
3:00 - 3:30pm (ish)
77* F, cloudy


Feel free to share your favorite sound you heard today :)

Until next time!

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