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We create many different types of sounds: singing, humming, screaming, yelling, creating overtones, call/response with the audience, and there's also some unusual movement/staging. There are moments when the choir has one voice, and others where each singer uses their own voice in a very individual yet responsive way. It's also worth noting that we aren't being conducted. In sonic meditation much as in this recording, "participants are both responsive and creative, sounding and listening" (Mockus 44).

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"'An Alien Cyberattack' could be considered clickbait, but it raises the idea of listening as a vulnerable state. The paper that it refrences argues that paying attention actually makes technological systems less secure. Although the possibility of “extraterrestrial spearphishing” is perhaps remote, technologies on Earth we have paid attention to have already been hacked. 'An Alien Cyberattack' contains interesting ideas about listening, hearing, and the some vulnerabilities that come with our technologies for paying attention."

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"Coffitivity recreates the ambient sounds of a cafe to boost your creativity and help you work better."

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Spotify's "focus" playlists

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Gaze Coin: Get paid to gaze.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0321: Let’s Active

Make a short piece of music that decreases the mind’s tendency to wander, based on research by Dr. Liila Taruffi, PhD, and her colleagues.

"Here’s some additional background from Dr. Taruffi: “Mind-wandering” or “daydreaming” (i.e., our mind’s tendency to engage in thoughts and images that are unrelated to the here and now, are spontaneously evoked, and naturally flow over time) is incredibly omnipresent, reaching up to 50% of our waking mental activity. Mind-wandering is an internally-oriented cognitive state somehow opposite to focused attention on a task or on a specific sensory input. In the study entitled “Effects of Sad and Happy Music on Mind-Wandering and Default Mode Network”, we (Liila Taruffi, Corinna Pehrs, Stavros Skouras & Stefan Koelsch) tested the idea that music, via emotion, can function as a mediator of these inwardly-oriented mental experiences. In three experiments (two in which participants described their mental state immediately after listening to sad-sounding and happy-sounding music, and a third in which other participants’ brains were scanned as they listened to sad and happy music pieces) we found that sad music, compared with happy music, is associated with stronger mind-wandering and greater activity of the nodes of the Default Mode Network (the main brain network responsible for mind-wandering). Thus, our results demonstrate that, when listening to sad music, people withdraw their attention inwards and engage in spontaneous cognitive processes"

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Ma'an Nasel's unofficial, crowdsourced public transport map of Amman, Jordan.