Wednesday 9 July 2025, 7.30pm
A Year of Deep Listening began as a 365-day online celebration of the legacy of ground-breaking composer Pauline Oliveros, and what would have been her 90th year. The Centre for Deep Listening at Rensselaer published one text score per day — online and across social media platforms — for 365 days. An expression of the Deep Listening community, the scores were created by over 300 artists — ranging from prize winning composers to ear-minded grocery store clerks; from those who worked closely with Pauline Oliveros for decades to those she never met.
Published by Terra Nova and distributed by MIT Press, these scores are now brought together in one beautiful and historic volume, A Year of Deep Listening.
Join us for a collaborative exploration of this new publication, including performances from its contributors alongside new interpretations from sonic practitioners across London and beyond.
Dan Johnson is a percussionist working in improvised sound and expanded composition. Undermining conventional notions of drumming, their experimental work manifests across a wide range of projects; from eight-hour solo improvisations responding to instructions provided by the audience, to invite-only performances in rail tunnels, lifts and public toilets, to non-hierarchical group improvisation project Ecstatic Drum Beats. Running through this multifaceted output are consistent concerns with balancing chance and control, exposing performer-audience relationships, and the demands of discipline and physical endurance, drawing on a wealth of approaches from Fluxus instructional scores to the work performance artists like Tehching Hsieh, and most of all Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening practice.
Dan is a certified Deep Listening Facilitator with the Centre for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. He also holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning from the University of Sussex, and has been involved with research & development programmes at Stanford University and the Marina Abramovic Institute.
https://danjohnson.bandcamp.com/
https://tbceditions.bandcamp.com/album/contact
https://dalidesaintpaul.bandcamp.com/album/ep-64-57-2
Viv Corringham (New York/ London) has maintained a soundwalking practice for decades and is also a vocalist and “a vital force in improvised music since the late 1970s” (BBC R3). Her recent album “Soundwalkscapes” (Bandcamp’s Best Field Recordings 2024) uses voice, place and walking to create layers of time and space. She studied and performed with Pauline Oliveros and teaches her Deep Listening method. In 2024 this practice took her to Mexico, Germany, Spain and The Listening Academy, Hong Kong. Her definitive contribution to sound art practice is her 20 year ongoing “Shadow-walks” which have occurred in 18 countries, are taught in many sound art classes and have been the focus of articles in books and journals. She has an MA Sonic Art and a Deep Listening teaching certificate.
vivcorringham.org
Alex Goodall writes and releases guitar music as Conus sp. Bent, concurrently engaging in live sonic experiments involving listening, the voice and semantics around London.
pecheinterdite.bandcamp.com
zgriptor.net/A-bang-in-big-letters-1
I experience improvisation as a deeply satisfying and meaningful way of relating - to the instrument, the other players, and the audience - through active and responsive listening. As a lap steel player, I have been hugely influenced by the music and disposition of Susan Alcorn and my 2025 solo cd 'o- -o' is dedicated to her.
I am currently touring the UK and will host two 'Relay' events, in Leeds and Swansea, including Maggie Nicols, Rhodri Davies and Dan Johnson. Relay is a kind of game structure for 15 musicians, with a duration of three hours, which encourages active listening and rapid responsiveness - more chaotic, less meditative than Pauline Oliveros's way (although she did participate in it at the Museum of Modern Art in 2005) it has been described as 'punk John Cage' and I've been facilitating these since 1993 across the world.
CD: o- -o johnbisset.bandcamp.com/album/o-o-2
WEBSITE johnbisset.net
RELAY johnbisset.net/relay
Angharad Davies is a violin player who’s work exists between the thresholds of improvisation, composition and experimental music.
Her approach to sound involves attentive listening and exploring beyond the sonic confines of her instrument and performance expectation. Being an intrepid collaborator has seen her work with the likes of Tony Conrad, Elaine Radigue, Tarek Atoui, Gwenno, Lina Lapelyte, Richard Dawson, JG Thirlwell and Annea Lockwood.
As a composer she has been commissioned by Counterflows, LCMF, Tŷ Cerdd, Nawr, Explore Ensemble, GBSR duo, + AndPLAY and her music is often played on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show.
angharaddavies.com
Instagram : @angharaddavie
Sylvia Hallett is a multi-instrumentalist and composer moving between violin, bowed bicycle wheel, saw, hurdy-gurdy, electronics and found objects. She currently plays solo, with the walk-in interactive installation, Colourscape. Recent collaborators have included Chris Dowding, Tansy Spinks, Ansuman Biswas, Michael Ormiston, Mike Adcock, Anthony Haddon, Mike Cooper, David Toop, Anna Homler, The Heliocentrics, Clive Bell, LaXula, Opera North, h2dance, Miranda Tufnell, Eva Karczag, Wonderful Beast, BBC Radio Drama, The Royal Shakespeare Company. She performs internationally as a solo improviser, having released six solo albums. IShe enjoys performing in unusual spaces, such as an Italian vineyard.
http://sylviahallett.co.uk/index.htm
https://www.facebook.com/sylvia.hallett
Stuart Wilding is an improvising percussionist, playing a mixture of junk percussion, lap harp and cello. He is active in many current collaborations: Ghost Mind, Longstone, Lo-fi Ensemble, Mike Adcock duo, Pete Robson duo, Madrona, the Cheltenham Improvisers Orchestra, The Men They Couldn’t Dance To, and a new trio with Kaneng Lolang and Charlie Folorunshu. He currently runs the Lo-fi Improvised music Workshops in Camberwell. In the past he set up and ran Xposed Club promoting improvised music in Cheltenham. He has worked in several smaller improvising ensembles and with the Flying Down Trio, Hither Green Drone Orchestra and Makeshift. He played regularly at the LMC and was a performer and musician with the Hand in Glove Performance Group.
https://www.facebook.com/people/Ghost-Mind/100089967740135/
https://stuartwilding.bandcamp.com/
https://thementheycouldntdanceto1.bandcamp.com/
https://longstone.bandcamp.com/
https://madrona-uk.bandcamp.com/
https://xposedclub.wordpress.com/
Caius Williams is a musician from London who plays the double bass, guitar, and bass guitar. He works in collaboration with others, alongside an ongoing solo project, and often works with improvisation.
Some projects include ‘Crosspiece’ (with Theodora Laird), a duo with guitarist Tara Cunningham, alongside recent performances or collaborations with
Lifetones (Charles Bullen of This Heat), Steve Noble, feeo, Daniel O’Sullivan, Mark Sanders, Sachiko M, Tom Challenger, Maggie Nicols, Mark Wastell, amongst others.
Caius has been running the GRAIN series at Avalon Cafe in Bermondsey for the last 3 years, which is focussed on programming new and adventurous music and nurturing a growing community with cross-scene and cross-generational collaboration.
https://caiuswilliams.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.instagram.com/caiuswilliams_
https://www.youtube.com/@GrainResidency
Theodora Laird is a vocalist and multidisciplinary artist. Releases under her solo project ‘feeo’ have received critical acclaim. Theodora's practice has involved in tandem with an interest in situating narratives within freely improvised music, specifically through frequent involvement in the GRAIN residency.
Wil Pritchard is a Welsh composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. They play violin in various London bands like Kissing Gate and Kaspar Hauser, and make solo electronic pop music as Jaffro. They have also created soundtracks to various Theatrical Productions, most recently a staging of Martin Crimp’s ‘Attempts on her Life’ at The Hen and Chickens theatre, Islington.
https://wilpritchard.bandcamp.com/
https://jaffromusic.bandcamp.com/
Tom Rogers-Coltman is a guitarist from the West Midlands, now based in London. He records and performs instrumental guitar music as Bumper, and spent the last few years playing in the band Tapir!
