questionnaire

LISTENING QUESTIONS
from: Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice by Pauline Oliveros

1.What is your earliest memory of sound? How do you feel about it now?
1 Answer: I didn’t remember my earliest memory of sound.

2. When do you notice your breath?
2 Answer: After exercising.

3. What is attention?
3 Answer: Attention is a mind concentration on one subject matter.

4. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece based on breath rhythms?
4 Answer: Yes.

5. What sound reminds you of home?
5 Answer: Traffic.

6. Do you listen for sound in your dreams? What do you hear? How does it
affect you?
6 Answer: I remember mostly conversation in my dream. It does’t affect me because I usually forget them.

7. The distinguished historian, Wiliam H. McNeil, has recently argued in his
book Keeping Together in Time that "coordinated rhythmical activity is
fundamental to life in society."
Can you imagine tracking a rhythm pattern in your daily life and writing about
it?
7 Answer: Yes.

8. Can you imagine rhythm pattern for the rhythm circle with your own form of
notation?
8 Answer: No.

9. Can you imagine composing or improvising a piece for voices using attention
patterns?
9 Answer: No.

10. What is sound?
10 Answer: Sound is the vibration of air.

11. What is listening?
11 Answer: Listening are signals transfer from the vibration of ear drum to the brain, and it becomes meaningful information to human.

12. What action(s) is usually synchronized with sound?
12 Answer: collusion.

13. When do you feel sound in your body?
13 Answer: heartbeat.

14. What sound fascinates you?
14 Answer: water.

15. What is a soundscape?
15 Answer: Don’t know

16. What are you hearing right now? How is it changing?
16 Answer: Noise from veneration system.

17. How many sounds can you hear all at once?
17 Answer: One to two.

18. How far can you hear sounds?
18 Answer: Depends on how loud it is.

19. Are you sure that you are hearing every thing that is to hear?
19 Answer: No.

20. What more could you hear if you had bigger ears? (or smaller)
20 Answer: I don’t want a bigger ear or smaller ear.

21. Can you hear more sounds if you are quiet? How many more?
21 Answer: I don’t know how to measure it.

22. How long can you listen?
22 Answer: 15 mins

23. When are you not listening?
23 Answer: When I am not paying attention.

24. Can you not listen when something is sounding?
24 Answer: Yes.

25. Try not listen to anything. What happens?
25 Answer: Cannot control about it.

26. How can you not listen if your ears never close?
26 Answer: I guess it is when the signal didn’t convert to meaning information.

27. What meaning does any sound have for you?
27 Answer: Human voice is the most meaningful to me.

28. What is favourite sound? How is it made? When can you hear it? Are you
hearing it now?
28 Answer: The favourite sound of mine is music. It is made out of instrument. I can hear it whenever I want. I am not hearing it right now.

29. What is the soundscape of the space you are now occupying?
29 Answer: Classroom.

30. How is the soundscape shaped? or what makes a soundscape?
30 Answer: I don’t know.

31. What is the soundscape of your neighborhood?
31 Answer: I don’t know.

32. What is the soundscape of your city?
32 Answer: I don’t know.

33. How many different soundscapes can you imagine?
33 Answer: I don’t know.

34. What would you like to have in your own soundscape?
34 Answer: I don’t know.

35. What would you record to represent your soundscape?
35 Answer: I don’t know.

36. What sound makes you speculative?
36 Answer: Rock music.

37. What sounds gives you chills?
37 Answer: high pitch.

38. What sound ruffles your scalp?
38 Answer: Scream.

39. What sound changes your breathing?
39 Answer: horror.

40. What sound would you like whispered in your ear?
40 Answer: My girlfriend voice.