The Listening Garden x Ojai Music Festival: Deep Listening w/ Claire Chase at Light and Space – Ojai, CA

Join us for a solo performance and an introduction to the practice of Deep Listening, as flutist Claire Chase (Ojai Music Festival 2025 Music Director) invites us to participate in the legacy of experimental and electronic music pioneer, Pauline Oliveros.

With DJ selections by two sonic innovators from LA’s ambient & all-genre scene: Colloboh (Leaving Records) and Mark “Frosty” McNeill (dublab/LA Phil).

The evening will include bento-style Japanese dinner available for purchase, as well as complimentary tea ceremony & wine.

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About the Artists

Described by The New York Times as “the most important flutist of our time,” Claire Chase is a musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. One of today’s most generative forces of new music, Chase returns to Ojai later this season as Musical Director of the 2025 Ojai Music Festival.

Chase has recently performed as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Munich Chamber Orchestra, and London Philharmonia. She is currently collaborating with The Getty Center on a public offering inspired by the listening philosophies of Pauline Oliveros (PST ART x Science Collide festival, 2024-25).

Colloboh is a Nigerian-born, LA-based sound artist, producer, composer, and DJ. While known for his modular synth works, he’s broken new ground in experimental performance with recent collaborations with Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Getty Center.

Mark “Frosty” McNeil is a DJ, radio host, sonic curator, and founder of dublab radio, a pioneering web-based radio station exploring wide-spectrum music since 1999. McNeill currently serves as a Creative Producer for Los Angeles Philharmonic.

About Pauline Oliveros + Deep Listening

Pauline Oliveros was a sonic visionary; her work in composition, improvisation, and teaching was imaginative, ground-breaking and largely dedicated to accessibility.

Deep Listening describes philosophies and practices that explore the space between the physical phenomenon of hearing and the conscious practice of listening. It includes listening and sounding exercises, sonic meditations, and interactive performance. In the words of Oliveros, “Deep Listening involves going below the surface of what is heard, expanding to the whole field of sound while finding focus. This is the way to connect with the acoustic environment, all that inhabits it, and all that there is.”*

*Quantum Listening: From Practice to Theory (To Practice Practice)” by Pauline Oliveros. SoundArtArchive, December 1999