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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice.(Book review)

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Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice. By Pauline Oliveros. New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2005. [128 p. ISBN 0595343651. $13.95.]

Before you read beyond this first paragraph, take four or five minutes to do this simple exercise: stop and listen. What do you hear? What is the most distant sound you can hear? The closest? The most vivid and the most subtle? Can you relax and just take in the whole soundscape? How do you feel after doing this? Has anything changed?

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