Your Listening is a Paracosm w/ Alifiyah Imani

‘Your Listening is a Paracosm’ shifts perceptual perspectives through sound and ritual, drawings, and prompts. It unfolds as an experiment for the web on the artist-run platform distant.gallery and simultaneously permeates through radio transmissions. Each piece is a poetic listening score to explore sound as an expression of consciousness.

Dedicated to Quantum Listening (Pauline Oliveros) and Nāda Yoga philosophy, my interest lies in sound awareness and relationality, tuning, and the study of form from sound through texture, harmony, and polyphony. Embodiment practices through ways of listening and transpersonal resonance of archetypes, myths, and symbols through cross-cultural spiritual traditions are a ubiquitous guiding presence. Bird calls, rain, ocean waves, and the tolling of church bells are a few examples of soundscapes I have recorded. Experiments with handcrafted instruments, such as the full-bodied Tanpura, the babbling brook-like Strumok, the overtone flute, and the Tibetan Tingsha Bell, create lively acoustic and organic soundscapes that are combined with electronic and digitally-based ambient improvisation.

Composed and mixed by Alifiyah Imani (alifiyah@soundnomad.space)

Instagram: @alifiyahimani

Website: soundnomad.space

Bandcamp: sonosensing.bandcamp.com

Exhibition: distant.gallery/your-listening-is-a-paracosm