

Wed, 22 Nov
|Great Hall, Queen's House, Greenwich
Acoustic Ruminations
A meditative concert with music by Pauline Oliveros, Sorana Santos, Anna Meredith, Hildegard von Bingen alongside improvisation.
Time & Location
22 Nov 2023, 13:00 – 14:00
Great Hall, Queen's House, Greenwich, Romney Rd, London SE10 9NF, UK
Event details
What happens when we inhabit a feeling of being present together? In Acoustic Ruminations, we invite our audience to abandon the formalities of audience-dom and simply embrace a sense of being. Leave the rest of the world behind for the next 45 minutes and let us bathe you in sound.No clapping, no obligation to sit still, you can drift off, fall asleep, or if you like, meditate.
We’ve chosen our programme, which comprises both composed and improvised music, based around the concept of ‘sonic meditation’, which coined in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. In response to a context of ‘political despair’ of the time, Oliveros published a series of for ‘humanitarian purposes: specifically healing’. Unsurprisingly, this resonates strongly with us, as we work during another period of despair; as a group we’ve found deep listening and meditating together to be an integral part of our creative practice. We’ve incorporated thr…