shoreline LISTENING WALKS
Anne Bourne was mentored by renowned composer and listener Pauline Oliveros 1932-2016. Anne is an Certified Deep Listening facilitator and alumni from the Sangre De Cristo Mountain Deep Listening Retreats 1994-2009 where she trained in person with Oliveros. Anne is currently an affiliate with the Center for Deep Listening Rensselaer NY. and Trustee with M.o.M. who oversee the Pauline Oliveros Trust, NY. since 2017. Oliveros' publication 'Quantum Listening' was recently reissued by IGNOTA press London UK/ San Francisco, 2022. Anne recently attended the Geopoetics Symposium on Cortes Island which was a gathering of scholars, artists, poets , scientists, outdoor educators and composers to address shifting work to illuminate climate peace. Anne recently created Listen to Ice , the sonic imprints of glaciers, in collaboration with Artist field recording researcher Susan Schuppli, at the Toronto Biennial, 2022.
In Anne's Listening practice she leads guided listening walks as a gesture of attention towards the more than human species facing extinction in the ecosystems we share and love. Using the simpleText Scores of Oliveros, Anne facilitates community sounding (vocal toning) within the natural environment. Environmental Dialogue is a guided meditation and sounding experience for all non musicians and musicians alike. Anne will share the instructions composed by Oliveros that may open a deeper relationship to the ecosystem through listening and sounding, and the experience may bring a sense of well being.
feverish world 2018
Huron Waves 2022
SUNRISE SOUNDWALKS 7am JUNE 9,10,11,12
Join me this week for sunrise listening walks on the shores of Lake Huron and the 2G2 woodland trail at Blyth.
More information and maps here
June 9, 10, 11, 12 7am
"Can you imagine listening near Lake Huron at dawn, or with the many species in a woodland trail? Our four Sunrise Sound Walks, led by Canadian environmental artist and composer Anne Bourne, will explore the Lake’s wave patterns, the complex resonance of its deep waters, tectonic currents, the shifting shoreline sands, and the many pulses found in a forest floor. If this sounds exceptional, it is. Each intimate group of walkers shares a unique experience by listening to voices in nature, adding their own voices to a tone chorus in an environmental dialogue, all under the guidance of a world-famous musician and environmentalist."
Rain or Shine: Dress according to the weather. This walk will be along the lake shore.
Thursday, June 9 – Port Albert (beach)
1 Melbourne Street, Port Albert, ON N7A 3X9 (map)
Friday, June 10. Port Blake (beach)
Port Blake Day Park, 71111 Bluewater Highway, Grand Bend, ON N0M 1T0 (map)
Saturday, June 11. Blyth (G2G Trail)
Meet at the Butterfly Garden/Water Tower on west side of Hwy 4, north of Westmoreland Street, south of the bridge over the river. (map)
Sunday, June 12. Bayfield (beach)
56 Howard Street West, Bayfield, ON N0M 1G0 (map)
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Anne Bourne (Canada) interdisciplinary artist and composer, improvises streams of sonics, image, field recording, and words. Anne has created work with Ione, Tanya Lukin Linklater, tUkU, Mauricio Pauly, Eve Egoyan, and Pauline Oliveros. A Chalmers Fellow, Anne is developing works that express listening to a more than human soundfield, and perception of ephemeral wave patterns, on the living map of the shoreline.
After experiencing a flood in 2017, on the island in the Great Lake system where I lived with my daughter, I wanted to go out into the world to experience the truth of the climate crisis. I was inspired to travel to walk on ocean coasts, lake and river shores to witness what sea level rise meant in the world. To me shoreline was a metaphor for a constant changing negotiation between elements , evocative of climate peace. With the support of a Chalmers Foundation fellowship, I proposed ‘shoreline’ , to gather biosonic field recordings and oral histories, to consider the experience of changing water levels at this time, and to listen to voice practices near bodies of water, that had a resonance of mother tongue , harmonic overtones and naturally occurring tuning systems. On the shoreline, there is to be found an elemental play of difference, where water touches land. What I learned was to go below the surface . This lead me to understand the littoral where multi-species environment can be engaged with in the vibrant soundfield, which must be protected. And the unknowable deep ocean, where the commons hold our possible future. I am grateful to have made connection with TBA21 and Ocean Space in Venice, Triton and Territorial Agency, who are actively inspiring a many discipline conversation on oceana. Towards climate peace. It was not until I returned that I discovered that our flood was a controlled flood within the Great Lakes designed to accommodate ships having more capacity when they entered the trade route. The erosion caused threatened natural ecosystems and homes built too close to the water. After the deep reflection imposed by lockdown, and ongoing participation in the pedagogical experiment Ocean UNI offered by TBA21 and Ocean Space in collaboration with Territorial Agency, online due to the gallery closure in Venice, I began creating from the experience and the materials I captured in the field the preceding year. I realised that an essential quality to listening for me is to attend to the purpose of rebalancing human impact with the more than human in relationship within and interspecies soundfield. To express a harmonic balance within the environment I attend to the Oliveros perception that the environment is listening to my listening. I continue to compose with emergent sonics of piano and cello, while experimenting with the code of true sonic representation with what is real in field recordings. I hope amplification of bodies of water in my work influences the swift river of change we now find ourselves in. And that as John Palmesino says, we cannot go back , but through conversation and attention we can find a way to go through the next 30 years together before the first iceless summer.
In gratitude to OAC The Chalmers Foundation TBA21 Ocean Academy Territorial Agency MoM Pauline Oliveros
first photo: gibraltar point beach erosion, 2017
