Introduction xi

LISTENING
Chop Chop Phoooah 3
The Way the Eyes Are with the Ears 5
The Sound Horizon 6
Listening to Animals 7
Symphonies of Place 9
Protect Your Ears 13
Preparing a Sound Space 17
Focusing 19
Music at a Distance 20
Unlistening 21
Listening to People 24
The More You Listen 26
Twenty Sounds to Get Lost In 27
Special Radio Trick 29
Easy-to-Miss Music 31
Hand and Glove 33
Listening to Music 34
Dreamed Music 38
Listening to a String 39

JOINING IN
Resonance 43
Walking 46
Singing with Machines 49
Now Time 52
Life Drummer 55
Dinner Symphony at the Sillses' 59
Gibberish 61
Say Wind 63
Chanting 66
Willing Silence 69

PRACTICING
Finding Your Own Music 73
One Note after Another 75
Telephoning Counts 78
The Ace of Practice 80
Cosmic Practice 82
Ima Dork 83
In Meter 85
Disabusable Notions 88
The Best Excuses 90
Mistakes 92
Wandering Mind 93
No One Can Tell You 94
What Should I Practice? 95
Technique and the Eraser Trick 97
Electronic Instruments 98
Deep Pantry 100
Lentus Celer Est 101
Names 102
Chariot of Words 104
There's Not Much to Learn and It Takes Forever 105
Dr. Overtone's Promise 106
Originality 107

THE SOUND CONNECTION
Finding a Teacher 113
Fear of Music 117
Hearing through Other Ears 120
Most Perfect Music 121
The Circle of Listening 123
Inner and Outer 125
Age Matters 127
Tone-Deaf Choir 128

PRACTICES
Singing Unison with a String 137
Just Any Note? 141
As Much as Possible from as Little as Possible 143
Touch What You Sing 153
Steps/Leaps 157
The Tyranny of Triads 159
The Art of Returning 161
Juice between Textures 163
Play by the Clock 164
Just the News 165
The Magic Scale 166

BIG EARS 173

Notes 178