Deep listening can decouple conscious recognition from performance action

Evidence

When I arrive on stage, I am listening and expanding to the whole of the space/time continuum of perceptible sound. I have no preconceived ideas. What I perceive as the continuum of sound and energy takes my attention and informs what I play. What I play is recognized consciously by me slightly (milliseconds) after I have played any sound. … The music comes through as if I have nothing to do with it but allow it to emerge through my instrument and voice. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 57

Categorization

• QUESTION: Oliveros hears her own sound milliseconds after playing — an altered-state experience. Worth chasing: what neurophysiological mechanism underlies this delay?
• XREF: Connects to flow states and ‘thought-less action’ described in Csikszentmihalyi and in Zen/martial arts practice. — connects to: Improvised sound can emerge before conscious recognition of it — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 57
• FICTION: The performer hearing their own notes after they sound is a striking altered-consciousness image usable in narrative.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 57

Broader Connections

• Improvised sound can emerge before conscious recognition of it #corroborates (0.85) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 57