Deep Listening
A Workshop, Soundwalk, and Concert
Inspired by the Work of Composer Pauline Oliveros
Facilitated by Deep Listening Practitioner Jane Rigler
Friday, October 24, 2025 - 6:30pm
Workshop - The Attuned Listening Experience Workshop with Jane Rigler
90-minute interactive workshop introduction into the practice of Deep Listening. (full description below)
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Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 11:00am
Soundwalk - The Silent Soundwalk Experience with Jane Rigler
70-minute session including a communal, slow walk and playful interactive expressive opportunities. All ages welcome. Note: This experience will include a slow walk through indoor and outdoor spaces. (full description below)
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Saturday, October 25, 2025 - 7:00pm
Concert - Featuring music by Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley and more
75-minute performance featuring a chamber ensemble and interactive sonic meditations. All ages welcome. (full description below)
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All events take place at
Trinity Presbyterian Church
3201 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37215
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NOTE: Register for one event, two events, or all three.
To do so, you will need to check out your eventbrite cart separately for each event.
Join us for some or all of this two day residency with Deep Listening facilitator, flutist and composer Jane Rigler.
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Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening. The practice includes bodywork, sonic meditations, and interactive performance, as well as listening to the sounds of daily life, nature, one’s own thoughts, imagination, and dreams. It cultivates a heightened awareness of the sonic environment, both external and internal, and promotes experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, playfulness, and other creative skills vital to personal and community growth.
About Jane Rigler
Flutist, composer, coach, producer, and organizer Jane Rigler, Ph.D., expands the concept of music and collaboration through her explorations in sound and well-being. Learn more about Jane at www.janerigler.com
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Workshop: The Attuned Listening Experience Workshop with Jane Rigler
Step into a new world where listening transforms into creation, and every person—regardless of ability or instrument—becomes part of a living, breathing musical community.
Inspired by scores and concepts created by the composer/performer/educator, Pauline Oliveros, this 90-minute workshop opens up infinite possibilities that can alter perspectives around performance and interpretation of new music.
Discover:
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Your body as an instrument, your attention as artistry
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Playful movement that unlocks sound
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Accessible musical scores that welcome everyone
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The joy of co-creating compositions in real-time
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How dreams, memories, and imagination become creative musical experiences
What happens: Together we form a listening collective—not performing for an audience, but becoming the music itself. Through Oliveros’ pioneering methods, and Jane Rigler’s gentle facilitation, participants explore how conscious listening builds creative communities where barriers dissolve and wonder and curiosity emerge.
Who belongs here: Every body. Every ability. Every instrument (or none at all). Every discipline. Every dreamer.
The magic: Watch as strangers become collaborators, silence becomes symphony, and individual voices merge into something none of us could create alone. The definition around what is or isn’t music dissolves and instead it becomes about the act of co-creation, where deeply listening becomes multi-sensorial experience.
Leave with: New ways of hearing your world, tools for creative collaboration, and the profound experience of being truly listened to while creating something transformative with others.
The Attuned Listening Experience: Where conscious attention meets creative community
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Soundwalk: The Silent Soundwalk Experience with Jane Rigler
Join Jane Rigler for a transformative, communal, soundwalking journey where diverse people gather to unlock the hidden soundscapes around and within us.
What happens: We walk slowly, listen deeply, and discover together. No destination—just presence. As we tune into our environment and each other, we notice which sounds we absorb and which we ignore, revealing patterns about ourselves and our community.
The magic: When groups listen quietly together, the world opens up. Animals emerge. Relationships form. Trust builds. These discoveries ripple outward and expand into our daily lives.
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The experience: Short, slow walks punctuated by playful expression—writing, drawing, sounding together as a listening ensemble. We disrupt ordinary walking by asking not “where to?” but “how to?”—expanding our listening capacity beyond what we imagined possible.
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The result: Communities connected through contemplative practice, multisensory awareness, and the revolutionary act of truly hearing our world.
Journey over destination. Listening over arriving. Community over isolation.
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Musicians
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Jane Rigler, Flute
Rachel Englander, Violin
Maria Conti, Violin
Sarah Cote, Viola
Chris Stenstrom, Cello
Alessandra Volpi, Piano
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Concert Program
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Jane Rigler - The Oldest New Song
John Cage - In a Landscape
Pauline Oliveros - Elemental Gallop
Pauline Oliveros - The Tuning Meditation from Four Meditations for Orchestra
Pauline Oliveros - Two Sonic Meditations
Terry Riley - G Song
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