Trained performers can play music without truly listening

Evidence

I noticed that many musicians were not listening to what they were performing! There was good hand-eye coordination in reading music, but listening was not necessarily a part of the performance. The musician was of course hearing but listening all over or attention13 to the space/time continuum (global) was not happening. There was disconnection from the environment that included the audience as the music was played. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 46

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the book’s core distinction between hearing and listening, and to the reader’s goal of understanding how sonic attention operates. — connects to: Reading and playing music can occur without genuine listening — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 46; Improvised sound can emerge before conscious recognition of it — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 57
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 46

Broader Connections

• Improvised sound can emerge before conscious recognition of it #qualifies (0.70) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 57