Presence, Play, and Collective Dreaming: Embodied Sound Practice as Creative Research

This interactive experience explores how a multi-sensorial creative practice can be a useful resource for music performance, composition, and other creative arts research and restorative community-building. Through facilitated invitation, inspired by the work of Pauline Oliveros (musician/humanitarian, and founder of Deep Listening®), participants explore presence and play — cultivating capacity for orientation to what is emerging in this moment and how to expand upon it. This work positions the body as our wise collaborator, a friend that we welcome, as is, into our practice (as musical artists, dancers, performers, creators).

Jane Rigler is a flutist/composer and certified Deep Listening® facilitator who believes listening is a practice of play, connection, and imagination. With a Ph.D. in experimental music from UCSD and a career that has taken her from Noh theatre in Japan to Irish language traditions in Ireland, she brings a global, embodied perspective to the art of Deep Listening. A former Associate Professor at the University of Colorado and Fulbright Award recipient, Jane facilitates workshops worldwide and co-founded the Arts & Wellbeing Gathering.