HARK
Looking, Listening, and Dwelling in the Spirit
Experience and Creativity in the Sensory World
Welcome to the HARK website.
We in HARK explore lookings and listenings and encourage responses to emerge. In reacting to the images and sounds our imaginations are aroused; in responding to them we might want to add our own creativity. As we dwell with them we might find this to be a practice of meditation.
HARK explores four responses to these lookings and listenings. After each we invite you to muse, to reflect on the experience — just to notice. There is no right or wrong way to engage, there is just the noticing both what we see and hear and what arises in us as we look and listen. Reflections on how we find ourselves looking and listening may also arise.
Sounded glimpses of some feature of our environing world; small, passing miniatures.
Short, usually four-minute invitations to dwell a little longer with sound and images.
These have a theme and focus on some element or object, for example a river and its flow or an object in a context.
Longer, themed pieces. Here we find Asylum Diaries and an outline of two pieces in progress, Derive, and The Oracle of Sophia.
On the site
Openings
Start calmly, look, gaze, focus, unfocus, listen, attend, dwell, reflect………
What is HARK
How did HARK begin, who has been involved, what have we done…..
Current Projects
Lockdown composition project, improvisation at the Silo, a vision of an event…..
Collaborate
Video and sound/music Ikons, Haiku at various stages of their lives, available for shared exploration.
Past Projects
Listening Groups, Ethnography of Listening, Sounding Stones and more…..
Sources
Papers and texts that inspire HARK, thoughts, comments and essays……