Headphone listening reveals sounds ordinarily outside awareness

Evidence

Field recording is a great way to become more sensitive to sounds. Headphones tend to focus attention on sounds that ordinarily are not in your awareness. When you listen to the environment that you want to record, listen both with and without headphones until you feel that you are capturing the sounds as realistically as possible. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 279

Categorization

• SEED: A practical teaching exercise: compare headphone vs. open-air listening to map the gap between mediated and immediate sound awareness.
• XREF: Connects to soundwalk and attention-training practices from earlier Deep Listening chapters. — connects to: Attending closely to movement reveals a whole vivid soundscape within walking — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 431; Focused attention to one’s own motion unlocks awareness of its auditory environment — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 431; Inconspicuous everyday sounds vanish from the soundscape unnoticed by locals — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 804 (+9 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 279

Broader Connections

• Attending closely to movement reveals a whole vivid soundscape within walking #exemplifies (0.85) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 431
• Inconspicuous everyday sounds vanish from the soundscape unnoticed by locals #expands (0.80) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 804
• Focused attention to one’s own motion unlocks awareness of its auditory environment #exemplifies (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 431