Shawn Feeney | Art, Sound, and Musical Anatomy.

DEBUT SOLO ALBUM THIN PLACES NOW AVAILABLE

Thanks to @adobe for featuring music from my album

Thanks to @adobe for featuring music from my album “Thin Places” in this week’s @adobemax conference. The conference is free & online this year, and registrants get access to download a mix of two songs from my album.

#adobe #adobemax #thinplaces #quartzbowls #singingbowls #listenwithheadphones

Opening bars from the second movement of Ravel’s

Opening bars from the second movement of Ravel’s string quartet (1903), played on guitar, bass, and ukulele. Stravinsky described Ravel’s attention to detail as “the work of a Swiss watchmaker.”

#ravel #ravelstringquartet #stringquartet #guitar #bass #ukulele #listenwithheadphones

#tbt playing music within James Turrell’s reverb

#tbt playing music within James Turrell’s reverberant “Three Gems” at the de Young, 2015. Photo by Andrea Martin.

#jamesturrell #deyoung #percussion

Erik Davis wrote, “the tight-rope walk: the art

Erik Davis wrote, “the tight-rope walk: the art of staying upright as you cross over the void by maintaining a balance of pragmatic skepticism and visionary curiosity, of reason and enchantment, of empirical knowing and Zen non-knowing.”

#tuningforks #pythagoreantuning #listenwithheadphones

Fingerstyle improvisation decelerating into colder

Fingerstyle improvisation decelerating into colder weather.

#quartzbowls #singingbowls #percussion #improvisation #listenwithheadphones

Cycles within cycles 🎧 #himalayanbowls #singi

Cycles within cycles 🎧

#himalayanbowls #singingbowls #turntable #lazysusan #dopplereffect #listenwithheadphones

M.C. Richards wrote, “And with listening, too, i

M.C. Richards wrote, “And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity. It is the total person who hears. Sometimes the skin seems to be the best listener, as it prickles and thrills, say to a sound or a silence; or the fantasy, the imagination: how it bursts into inner pictures as it listens and then responds by pressing its language, its forms, into the listening clay. To be open to what we hear, to be open in what we say.”

#quartzbowls #turntable #lazysusan #centering

On the latest episode of Stimulus & Response, a po

On the latest episode of Stimulus & Response, a podcast on finding everyday peace, presence, and connection, I spoke with my old friend Jeremy N. Smith and new friend Damon Valentino. We discussed Deep Listening, my various artistic pursuits, Thin Places, and more.
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#interview #deeplistening #stimulusandresponse

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