Deep listening is a practice created from Pauline Oliveros, queer American composer, improviser and performer, which explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary and selective nature of listening. Pauline Oliveros in her book Deep listening, to composer's sound practice defines deep listening as "learning to expanding the perception of sounds to include the entire spatiotemporal continuum of sound - including as much of its vastness and complexity as possible."

In practice, deep listening includes body work, sound meditations and score work, as well as guided listening to the sounds of everyday life, thoughts, imagination and dreams. It cultivates greater awareness of the sound environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration and other creative skills vital to artistic growth.

"I apply this method to my research on voice and performance through scores and improvisations. I believe that today more than ever listening is a strong political statement and that a practice rooted in opening one's body and ears to others can ensure growth both as artists and as empathetic human beings."

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Diana Lola Posani

Diana Lola Posani, sound artist, performer and curator, is a Deep Listening facilitator certified by the Deep Listening Foundation. She performs internationally, writes in the journal to Row of Trees, from the Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU) - Oxford Brookes University, and debuted in 2022 on Fango Radio with the podcast Kaikokaipuu. She is currently interested to working on the common space between sound and poetic imagery through interdisciplinary works and sound poems. Her work has been presented to MACRO museum of contemporary art, Errant Sound, Tsonami Sound Art Festival, NEXTONES festival, and at the exhibition MEZZ'ARIA currently on display to Palazzo Fabroni to Pistoia, curated from NUB project space. to March saw the publication of her translation of the book "Deep Listening - The Sound Practice of a Composer" by Pauline Oliveros, heretofore unpublished in Italy, for Timeo publishing house.

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