In 2023, Tina Pearson was commissioned by the Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre (Alberta, Canada) to create two on site pieces based on Pauline Oliveros’ early Sonic Meditations for an upcoming exhibition “In The Present Moment“, curated by Haema Sivanesan. Working with participants* from a Banff Centre Visual Arts residency, Pearson facilitated Deep Listening and soundmaking workshops, and listening soundwalks toward performance of Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations Environmental Dialogue, and Breathe In / Breathe Out, both composed in the 1970s. Supporting the project were Banff Centre for the Arts personnel Jacqueline Bell, Walter Phillips Gallery curator; Janine Windolph, Director of Indigenous Arts; Curtis Doherty, videographer; Jozef Karoly, video editor; and Ben Ewing, audio engineer. The results were a 4-channel audio rendition of Breathe In / Breathe Out, and a video interpretation of Environmental Dialogue. Both pieces were included in the exhibition at the Gallery from September 15 to December 13, 2023.

Images from a soundwalk to the site where Environmental Dialogue was imagined by listening: on site on Minihrpa, Treaty 7 territory on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain at the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity. 

*Performers shown in slide show above: Russell Banx, Hanna Duggan, Diyar Mayil, Alexsa Durrans, Pardiss Amerian, Jerry Ropson, John Edmonds, Emily Pelstring, Jacqueline Bell, Ben Ewing, Tina Pearson

Stills from videos made by Curtis Doherty and edited by Jozef Karoly.