Quiet Inspirations: We are a Mumuration by Adrienne Sloan
Adrienne Sloan’s beautiful project We Are a Murmuration.
A collective creative practice with the more-than-human world.
This piece is part of Quiet Inspirations — a series where I share the people, mindful conversations, books, and soul-rooted work that inspire me and that resonate with me.
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What is We Are a Murmuration?
This project by Adrienne Sloan is for those who would like to expand their capacity for aliveness in the everyday.
It’s a dial-in phone line devoted to the collective practice of listening, sounding, and sonic encounters with our more-than-human kin.
Each month, Adrienne offers us a new listening practice via the dial-in phone. Simply call the number for brief, poetic prompts that interrupt the seemingly ordinary. You can leave a message sharing what arose: your voice, a message, a sound or a recording of the sonic field around you to become a part of the murmuration.
Over time, Adrienne will create a soundscape composition with the messages and share them on the website.
A Beautiful Resonance…
The resonance I feel with this is beyond words. Just the image alone speaks to me so deeply, inviting me to listen and connect beyond words. My nervous system breathes, I sigh and remember once again to just become present, be and remember. A longing comes up in me, to come home. Thank you for this beautiful invitation Adrienne, that reminded me to take a step in that direction and that I am a part of it all.
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Who is Adrienne Sloan?
Adrienne is an artist-researcher and IFS therapist based in New Mexico. Her work explores listening, field recording, and transmission arts as pathways to deeper presence and relation with the more-than-human world. She invites people into participatory, embodied experiences as co-conspirators in collective inquiry.
You can visit her website here.
Ready to become more present to your life simply by dialing a phone number?
We Are A Murmuration is a dial-in phone line devoted to collective practices of listening, sounding, and sonic encounters with our more-than-human kin. Each month, a new listening score arrives — a poetic prompt that interrupts the seemingly ordinary. Call in, receive the score, leave a message: your voice, a sound, or the sonic field around you.
Call USA (505) 557-2445 to become a part of the murmuration.
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We Are a Mumuration page
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