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This talk introduces Deep Listening, a practice of expanded sonic and sensory awareness developed by composer Pauline Oliveros. As an artist who studied with Oliveros and now carries this work forward through the Center for Deep Listening, I will share some of the core methods and ethical commitments of the practice, and how they come together to build sensory awareness, attunement, and communal co-creation. We will also explore how contemporary artists in different parts of the world have brought this practice — born in a particular moment of mid-20th century American culture — into the context of contemporary social, political, and ecological concerns.
Seminar led by Stephanie Loveless
Saturday, 28 February 2026, 4:00PM-6:00PM (GMT UK)
Online
Later in February, Stephanie will lead an intimate, small-group seminar. This session is designed as a close, conversational exchange—just 20 participants gathered around a virtual table with Stephanie to explore her themes and artistic practice in greater depth. It will be informal, personal, and responsive, allowing time and space for genuine dialogue.
How to apply
- You must have attended her online talk on 10 February.
- To apply, write to sos@schoolofsound.co.uk with a brief summary of your background, experience, and why you’d like to take part.
- The fee is £40, payable upon confirmation of your place. Fees are not refundable.
Please note: attendance is required. To preserve the immediacy of the event the seminar will not be recorded.
Contact sos@schoolofsound.co.uk if you have any questions.
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STEPHANIE LOVELESS is a sound and media artist whose research centres on listening and place. Her sound, video, and performance work has been presented widely in festivals, galleries, museums and artist-run centres in North America, South America, Europe and the Middle East.
She has received grants from the NY State Council on the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council and el Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; awards from Kodak, the International Festival of Cinema and Technology, and the Malcolm S. Morse Foundation; and has completed residencies at el Centro Mexicano para la Musica y las Artes Sonoras (Morelia, Mexico), the Coleman Center for the Arts (York, Alabama), and Studio XX (Montréal, Québec).
She holds MFAs from both Bard College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has studied with pioneering composers such as Pauline Oliveros (with whom she completed a Certification in Deep Listening), Hildegard Westerkamp (as a founding member of the Vancouver Soundwalk Collective) and Diamanda Galás.
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 (2025), which brought together a year’s worth of daily scores for listening, contributed by over 300 artists. Her co-edited volume, Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard, 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. https://stephanieloveless.com/