I had the pleasure to lead a short Deep Listening workshop with a Cyprus based group called Perceiving Academy Sound and Touch. We had a wonderful and dedicated group to learn about the basics of Deep Listening and practice the “Tuning Meditation” by Pauline Oliveros.
You can find out more about this group and their workshop on the Facebook Event page.
One of my longest collaborator is the Bulgarian choreographer, dancer and film maker Zornitsa Stoyanova (BodyMeld). One of her films, Explicit Female, that I did the music for was featured in the German festival Poetry Film Festival – Women in Resistance.
“Explicit Female” is a visual poem that takes on pregnancy and the act of birth as its theme. Making another human in one’s body is often thought of as magical, beautiful, and peaceful. This film illuminates all that, plus the hidden trauma of the experience. Using mirror psychedelic effects, the body gets transformed into sensual ever-changing vaginas, organic-looking aliens, shapes and colors that later remind of DNA division. Deeply sensual, the sci-fi imagery lures the imagination while furthering the feel of otherness and alienation. An automatically generated voice speaks of the female body’s durability and the complete destruction of identity that happens to a new mother. “Explicit Female” is part of a bigger performance of the same name that evening.
Here’s a preview of the film from the Philadelphia Fringe Festival:
