Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary, selective nature of listening.
I fell really ill a couple weeks ago and was bedridden. For the whole day, I felt extremely overwhelmed by music or TV. – but I needed a source of distraction, so I decided to open the window and lose myself to the sounds of the environment – it was both meditative and entertaining and I felt like I could find many nuances to the sounds but none of the sounds I was listening to were intrusive to my thoughts. I felt like they just came and went. I felt connected to the practice of Pauline Oliveros which I studied last year.