The Anchorage Museum hosts a Deep Listening® workshop in partnership with the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer.
Deep Listening is a practice developed by composer and electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros, who described it as “a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible, to listen no matter what you are doing.” The practice encompasses bodywork, sonic meditations, interactive performance, and listening to the sounds of daily life—nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination, and dreams.
In this workshop, participants will explore Deep Listening through sound, movement, and dream. The program begins with an in-person introductory session focused on embodied listening, followed by a hybrid session with guest facilitators that centers on sound and dreams. Participants will also be invited to create their own Deep Listening score. Selected materials generated during the workshop will be assembled into a collective Deep Listening zine, produced by the Anchorage Museum in collaboration with the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer.
Designed for adults; must commit to the full class duration. Free, thanks to the support of the Alaska State Council on the Arts. Registration is required.
If you have any questions about this program, contact Simonetta Mignano at smignano@anchoragemuseum.org.
About the Facilitators:
IONE is an author, playwright, director, and improvisational text-sound artist. In addition to multiple international performances, she has created numerous large music theater works with her creative partner and spouse, the composer Pauline Oliveros. IONE’s memoir Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color, was a New York Times Notable Book. As founding director of the Ministry of Maåt (MoM), in Kingston, New York, IONE conducts workshops and seminars throughout the world, encouraging a vibrant international community of writers, visual artists, and musicians. She has recently published Quantum Dreaming, Silver Press, London.
Dr. Ximena Alarcón-Díaz is a sound artist-researcher interested in listening and sounding our sonic migrations. She composes immersive listening collective experiences for sensing place and tele-presence and creates Interfaces for Relational Listening (INTIMAL). She is a Deep Listening certified tutor, with a PhD in Music Technology and Innovation. She teaches at the Center for Deep Listening (RPI) and works as Coordinator of Postgraduate Degrees at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de Antioquia.
Stephanie Loveless is a sound and media artist whose research centers on listening and vocal embodiment. She currently lives and works in upstate New York, on the shores of the Mahicannituck, where she is a Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Arts, and Director of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer. In 2025, Loveless published A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros. Her co-edited volume, Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard (2025), is a collection of essays that contribute theories and practices of embedded, contextual, and critical listening to growing literature in the field of sound studies.
Simonetta Mignano is the Climate Initiatives Coordinator at the Anchorage Museum and a certified Deep Listening® teacher from the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.