Turning the body changes how one hears one’s own clapping

Evidence

One of the real revelations of my college years came from watching him, when he probably thought no one saw him, out of the college cafeteria window. He was standing in a courtyard repeatedly clapping his hands, turning a few degrees, turning, listening, and clapping again; when I tried it myself later, I was amazed at how the sound would change with each turn. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 426

Categorization

• SEED: A concrete ear-training exercise—clap and rotate, noticing how the room re-shapes the sound—ideal for a listening pedagogy article or workshop.
• DEFINE: Illustrates that listening is directional and embodied: orientation materially alters what is heard.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 426
• XREF: connects to: Bone conduction through the skull shapes how one hears one’s own voice — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 2711