listening and being with a place – shifting practices with the land –

May 26, 2025 Composer, sound artist and facilitator Tina Pearson gave an overview of her practices and projects that are increasingly preoccupied with questioning and unlearning personal and cultural belief systems, contexts, forms and practices of being a composer, a sound artist and an artist in these times; times that are exemplified by the related symptoms of social injustice, the climate emergency, and the losses of nonhuman species and their habitats. Her presentation included her research into ways of tuning with body, ancestry, and other lifeforms, and included short listening practices.

Personal Website: https://tina-pearson.com/

LASAM Website: https://lasammusic.wordpress.com/

Experimental Music Unit: https://experimentalmusicunit.bandcamp.com/

Tina Pearson bio:
Tina Pearson is a Canadian composer, sound artist, media artist and facilitator. Her projects are nuanced sonic investigations of perception, presence and place, and connections that are minimized or forgotten. Her work references biospheres, ancestries, spectral structures and long spans of time; usually incorporates attention states; and often occurs in contexts beyond concert or gallery, including outdoors, and within/through online platforms. As a performer (flute, voice, glass, accordion, objects, electronics), Pearson’s sound worlds reveal unusual textures and phenomena. Pearson’s work has been commissioned for concerts, installations, choreography, and video in centres through North America and Europe. Pearson was editor of Canada’s Musicworks, and taught Sound Studies at OCAD University in Toronto. She is co-director of LASAM Music, member of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, and the Experimental Music Unit, and a certified Deep Listening® practitioner through Pauline Oliveros. Pearson is of Nordic and Slavic descent, and is grateful to live and work within the territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ peoples.