The Listening Room

Audio guides to the practice. Close your eyes. The space between the note and the silence holds the entire work.

The Building
Welcome to Oyparaploo
An introduction to the practice and its eighteen grounds.
4:32
The Lobby
Eclipse Prayer Shadow Impossible Mirror. Four stages of seeing.
6:15
The Grounds
Why grounds, not rooms. Why entrances, not pages.
3:48
The Tagline
For the love of The English. The facade and the trap door.
5:22
The Writing
Wonderful Garbage
The founding text. Why transformation of discarded material is a position.
7:10
The Three-Layer System
Lovely Quietness, verification, Master revision. No shortcuts.
8:45
Pressure Ghosts
What remains after the doomed have been forgotten.
6:30
The Receiver Turn
The shift from testimony to invitation.
5:55
Finding the Spine
What the piece actually says, underneath what you thought it said.
4:20
The Middle Eye
Seeing from the place between autobiography and imagination.
5:10
Noir Song Frequencies
Fourteen Frequencies
A sound installation mapping the frequencies between noise and listening.
12:40
Peat Bog Notes Cliff
Everything preserved in peat survives. Notes at the precipice.
8:15
Dumb Shaft Flue
Sound travels through shafts. What rises was never meant to be heard.
6:50
Thunder Fireworks Lapdog Hide
Three kinds of noise that make a small animal seek shelter.
5:30