Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of Brazen Weekender! I’m Farah, the head of creative at Brazen, and I’m pleased to be writing my first ever Weekender contribution. I am fortunate to spend most of my time thinking about amazing stories and how best to tell them—
Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of Brazen Weekender! I’m Farah, the head of creative at Brazen, and I’m pleased to be writing my first ever Weekender contribution.
I am fortunate to spend most of my time thinking about amazing stories and how best to tell them—both in terms of fiction and nonfiction, through podcasts, TV and film. At Brazen, our greatest successes have come from ambitious, universal stories told effortlessly. The inspiration for how to approach each project is equally critical and comes from other forms of story that exist in the world whether it’s music, art, the landscape and even the people I meet. I find myself constantly finding meaning in the everyday, the seemingly monotonous, asking: why do we do the things we do?
When I look deeply I tell good stories, but when I hear deeply, that’s when the most important ideas arise. Sound becomes not just a source of inspiration, but a gateway to unlocking greater potential.
Today, I wanted to share a slim yet dynamite-packed text: Quantum Listening, by Pauline Oliveros. The booklet is based on a 1999 essay written by maverick American composer Oliveros, who died in 2016 and lays out, in just 70 pages, a transformative, deeply philosophical approach to sound, blending the mystical, technological, ecological, and political. She was known for expanding the sonic possibilities of sound, and therefore our understanding.
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