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3. Listening with China Blue
4. Pauline Dreams
5. TreeDreams
6. Pauline Dreams at Mills
7. Raybird Dreams
4. Pauline Dreams
5. TreeDreams
6. Pauline Dreams at Mills
7. Raybird Dreams
17. Dream of Reality
18. Dreamtime Perspectives
19. Dreaming Fox
20. Dreaming Avatars
21. Deep Dreaming
18. Dreamtime Perspectives
19. Dreaming Fox
20. Dreaming Avatars
21. Deep Dreaming
Dreaming has long been a component of my creative endeavors. While in High School I began composing for orchestra as a result of dreams of hearing my own music. None of what I composed then came specifically from remembering what I'd dreamed, but the dreams sparked my imagination. It’s always been difficult for me to disassociate ideas emerging in dreams from those arising when working on a creative project, allegedly when awake. After all, where do thoughts really come from if not from long-term memory, unconscious pieces of phrases, images, sounds, actions and ideas that also give rise to dreams? For me, I often have to let go of forcing my way to find creative solutions and enter a kind of dream-like state, waiting to get a glimpse of a new angle or perspective.When I started making Singing Masks, their voices and images led me into what I started referring to as Ceremonial Dream Time. Studying Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, and Heloise Gold drew me further into that dream time realm. I have participated with Singing Mask Deep Listening pieces in Ione's Annual Dream Festivals from their beginning. What appears here in Dreamings is mostly documentations of many of those events. We are dreaming this!
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nlowrey@drew.edu