Native, 1974 (Human, 2023)

Native, 1974, by Pauline Oliveros, as a Listening Walk, here extended by our own notes :

Native, 1974 (Human (title of piece with notes), 2023)

Take a walk at night

(or at any time or place unusual for you to take a walk (for example, during work, while shopping, alone as a woman, not on a path, etc., or take a walk with your eyes half-blinded by a veil).

 

Walk so silently that the bottoms 

of your feet become ears

(Feel how you  always already are listening through your feet, through your whole body)

Pauline Oliveros

Native, 1974

Take a walk at night. 

Walk so silently that the bottoms 

of your feet become ears. 

 

Published in Sonic Meditations. Baltimore: Smith Publication, 1974.