David Amram is a distinguished composer who composed the scores for many films including "Pull My Daisy" (1959) considered one of the most important experimental films of the 20th century, "Splendor In The Grass" (1960) and "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962). He composed the scores for Joseph Papp's Shakespeare In The Park from 1956-1967 and premiered his comic opera "12th Night" with Papp's libretto. He also wrote a second opera, "The Final Ingredient, An Opera of the Holocaust," for ABC Television.

He has collaborated as a composer with Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Eugene Ormandy, Sir James Galway, Langston Hughes and Jacques D´Amboise and as a musician with Thelonious Monk, Johnny Depp, Hunter S. Thompson, Dizzy Gillespie, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Betty Carter, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Paquito D´Rivera, Tito Puente and Jerry Jeff Walker.

Lisa Kelley is a vocalist, performance artist and mother residing in Kingston, NY. Steeped in traditional theater, vocal and performance studies in her youth, Lisa’s creative process continues to revolve around investigations of identity, musical genres and styles, dream action theater, her family’s immigration memories from the Philippines, universal archetypes, Eastern philosophy and a recognition of the metaphysical and spiritual. Lisa’s performances and writing explore womanhood, grief and loss, dreams and the confluence of self in nature and the cosmos. She spent twelve years working closely with Pauline Oliveros and Ione as a staff member and artist of the Deep Listening Institute performing in numerous festivals and concerts and collaborating with fellow Deep Listening artists across the globe. Lisa is a Deep Listening certificate holder and an ordained high priestess and board member of the Ministry of Maåt. Lisa is currently the founding Executive Director of the Kingston Midtown Arts District and an arts commissioner for the City of Kingston. Lisabarnardkelley.com

In this episode Lisa Kelley tells how her experience working for almost a decade at the Deep Listening Institute influenced her vocal work and her experience leading Pauline Oliveros' "Heart Chant."

In this episode we will hear from the Columbian born and UK residing sound artist Dr. Ximena Alarcón Díaz. She is a sound and listening artist-researcher exploring embodied forms of sensing place and telepresence to listen to and sound collectively our sonic migrations. She speaks about how migration and geographical changes alters the sense of bodily placement and leads to dislocation. She also addresses the idea of relational listening in the concept of cultural inbetweeness and uses Anna Mendieta's performances are one illustration of this idea.

Daniel Weintraub is a Director, Producer and Editor. His most recent feature length documentary "Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros", is currently screening all over the world and garnering Weintraub best director accolades. Daniel also created documentary and experimental shorts on the work of Oliveros; "Don’t Call Them Lady Composers", and "Montage for Improvisors" which were shown in museums and festivals in CA, NY, UK, Spain and Switzerland. Additionally, Daniel acted as video curator for the exhibition of Pauline’s work at Centro de Creacion Contemporanea de Andalucia, Cordoba, Spain.

Weintraub will speak about listening as a filmmaker and his documentary "Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros"

Stephan Kunze is a writer, book author, and Editor of the Zen Sounds newsletter on experimental music and culture. He's a student and practitioner of Zen Buddhism and Deep Listening, and resides with his family in rural Northeast Germany. He is the author of the popular book Zen Style.

In this episode China Blue will be speaking with the internationally exhibiting New York artist Richard Humann about how listening informs his art making.

Richard Humann is a Brooklyn-based neo-conceptual artist with innumerable international gallery and museum exhibitions, including: the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kemi Art Museum, the Tampere Art Museum, the Youngeun Museum of Art, the Tornio Art Museum, the San Cristóbal Art Museum, the Daelim Art Museum, the Macao Art Museum, the Kaohsiung Museum of Art, Ssamzie Space, and the Espoo Museum of Modern Art.

Richard has been included in numerous biennales including th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; the Arbitat Biennal, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; the Taehwa River Arts Festival, Ulsan City, Republic of Korea; and represented the United States in the 2017 Karachi Biennale, Karachi, Pakistan.

His gallery exhibitions include: Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY; Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY; Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland; Voorkamer Gallery, Lier, Belgium; Planet Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa; and L Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

He has been an artist in residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY; Himmelblau in Tampere, Finland; The Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy; Ssamzie Space in Seoul, Republic of Korea; (Re)Create Residency in Castlenuovo Calcea, Italy; Oulu-AiR in Oulu, Finland; and the Gyeonggi Creation Center in Daebudo, Republic of Korea.

Richard is a recipient of grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the 2016 Pollock-Krasner Award, and has lectured at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, California; Drew University, Madison, New Jersey; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; and Hunerkada College of Visual & Performing Arts, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Richard Humann was born and raised in the Lower Hudson Valley region of New York State. He divides his time between Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY.

To read more about Richard Humann go to: https://www.richardhumann.com/

IONE is an Kingston, NY author, director and performer whose works include the critically acclaimed memoir, Pride of Family Four Generations of American Women of Color, and Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream!

She is the playwright and director with her creative partner and spouse, Pauline Oliveros of several large theater works including Njinga the Queen King; The Return of a Warrior (premiered at BAM’s Next Wave Festival), The Nubian Word for Flowers; A Phantom Opera, "a deep dream exploration of Nubian Soul and the Colonial Mind," premiered at Roulette Intermedium, NY and the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, the Dance Opera Io and Her and the Trouble with Him, and The Lunar Opera-Deep Listening For tunes. The two performed internationally as a duo (The Horns of Hathor) and currently IONE disseminates Oliveros’ works worldwide. She recently presented The World Wide Tuning Meditation at Carnegie Hall as a part of Claire Chase’s Pauline Oliveros at 90. This two day event included an ensemble performance of The Witness and The Day of Listening (for families with infants and featuring Oliveros’ Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, AUMI.)

She is an Executive Producer of Daniel Weintraub’s seminal film: “Deep Listening; The Story of Pauline Oliveros,” currently showing in selected theaters world-wide. (PaulineOliveros.us)

IONE is the Founding Director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc (MinistryofMaat.org) and Former Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (now The Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer).

IONE serves as mentor and advisor at Center For Deep Listening.

IONE was a member of the Kingston, NY Arts Commission for several years and A member of the Distinguished Mentors Council of Composers Now.

IONE’s recent opera, TOUCH, with composer Karen Power, premiered at Irish National Opera and she is preparing another major work with the same team.