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by Jamie Perera
Jamie Perera uses sound to represent objects in ways that create provoking experiences for listeners. He explores radical deconstruction, re-imagining and reclamation → @jamie_perera
Decolonizing Listening - An Exercise.
Guidance: Listen to a recording of the sea while doing this exercise.
Allow 3 - 5 breaths between each sentence or group of sentences.
___________
Close your eyes / lower your gaze.
Listen to the sound of the sea.
Allow the sound to become connected with your breathing.
Allow it to feel like the rise and fall of the waves.
Now blur the boundaries between those two things (the sea and your breath)
What does it feel like to have this liminal feeling between you and the sea.
What does it feel like to listen with your body?
With your next breaths see if you can let go of definitions
With your next breaths let go of language
And with the next breaths let go of thinking, of thought forms,
to just be the sound in unarticulated space.
In this space where you are nothing but these sounds,
now just allow yourself to be the sea.
Become the sea.
You are the water brushing against the shore.
You are the sparkle of foam on the waves.
You are the powerful movement of the ocean.
Here there is no division, no barrier between us and the sea.
Through reclaiming the way we listen we remember we are nature itself.
There’s no me, there's no you, there's no binaries.
And in the sound we can hear a voice, a language that doesn't use words.
You can hear it in the sea.
You can hear it in the wind in the trees.
You can hear it in morning bird song.
You can hear it in the sounds we make before they are understood as words.
We've been responding to this voice for many millennia.
This is our true relationship with nature and with each other, and it feels good.
There's limitless space, and limitless potential here because nothing has yet been defined.
Let’s allow this space to be our point of resilience.
A space where we find that we can question and redefine mental structures that have been inherited, colonised,
designed to oppress or call something an “other”.
Because these structures no longer serve us.
We are aware and even as we participate we have the power to choose.
Stay in the space...
Stay in the space...
And now open your eyes.
Image by Jamie Perera
Decolonizing Listening Exercise by Jamie Perera
by Jamie Perera
Jamie Perera uses sound to represent objects in ways that create provoking experiences for listeners. He explores radical deconstruction, re-imagining and reclamation → @jamie_perera
Decolonizing Listening - An Exercise.
Guidance: Listen to a recording of the sea while doing this exercise.
Allow 3 - 5 breaths between each sentence or group of sentences.
___________
Close your eyes / lower your gaze.
Listen to the sound of the sea.
Allow the sound to become connected with your breathing.
Allow it to feel like the rise and fall of the waves.
Now blur the boundaries between those two things (the sea and your breath)
What does it feel like to have this liminal feeling between you and the sea.
What does it feel like to listen with your body?
With your next breaths see if you can let go of definitions
With your next breaths let go of language
And with the next breaths let go of thinking, of thought forms,
to just be the sound in unarticulated space.
In this space where you are nothing but these sounds,
now just allow yourself to be the sea.
Become the sea.
You are the water brushing against the shore.
You are the sparkle of foam on the waves.
You are the powerful movement of the ocean.
Here there is no division, no barrier between us and the sea.
Through reclaiming the way we listen we remember we are nature itself.
There’s no me, there's no you, there's no binaries.
And in the sound we can hear a voice, a language that doesn't use words.
You can hear it in the sea.
You can hear it in the wind in the trees.
You can hear it in morning bird song.
You can hear it in the sounds we make before they are understood as words.
We've been responding to this voice for many millennia.
This is our true relationship with nature and with each other, and it feels good.
There's limitless space, and limitless potential here because nothing has yet been defined.
Let’s allow this space to be our point of resilience.
A space where we find that we can question and redefine mental structures that have been inherited, colonised,
designed to oppress or call something an “other”.
Because these structures no longer serve us.
We are aware and even as we participate we have the power to choose.
Stay in the space...
Stay in the space...
And now open your eyes.
Image by Jamie Perera
Decolonizing Listening Exercise by Jamie Perera