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Deep listening

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Deep listening workshop in the open field in the Páramo de la Russia, Colombia 2013.

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Goals:

Transmit the principles of deep listening for a relationship with space.

Cultivate awareness in perception and sensitive reflection.

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Sound artists and workshops:

Alfonso Pretelt.

Julian Benavides.

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The initiative arises together with the questioning of deep listening in hostile territories, crossed by precariousness, a consequence of armed conflicts and forced displacement, vestiges of the war in Colombia that face new spaces with their memory in tow. A memory wounded and deafened by the noise of the bullets. One of the main objectives is to heal the cultural wound that deepens in the country through deep, conscious listening and the relationship with the environment through sound.

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This process was carried out in the rural school of the Russian Páramo in January 2013. Here some children record and reproduce the sounds of the field, birds and other animals with an auditory fidelity of great relevance, we proposed them to deepen their awareness of This is his particular listening, among other dynamics, recreating and composing stories with this material.

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