Episode 1: Listening with Ione, Author, Director and Performer

In Episode I, China Blue interviews IONE who is a Kingston, NY based author, director and performer and was the partner to the founder of "Deep Listening," Pauline Oliveros. She will talk about her creative life with Oliveros, "Deep Listening" and listening to dreams.

She is the playwright and director with her creative partner and spouse, Pauline Oliveros of several large theater works including Njinga the Queen King; The Return of a Warrior (premiered at BAM’s Next Wave Festival), The Nubian Word for Flowers; A Phantom Opera, "a deep dream exploration of Nubian Soul and the Colonial Mind," premiered at Roulette Intermedium and the NYPL @Lincoln Center, the Dance Opera Io and Her and the Trouble with Him, and The Lunar Opera-Deep Listening For_tunes. The two performed internationally as a duo (The Horns of Hathor) and currently IONE disseminates Oliveros’ works world wide. She recently presented The World Wide Tuning Meditation at Carnegie Hall as a part of Claire Chase’s Pauline Oliveros @ 90. Two days of celebration included an ensemble performance of The Witness and The Day of Listening (for families with infants and featuring Oliveros’ Adaptive Use Musical Instrument, AUMI.)  She is an Executive Producer of Daniel Weintraub’s seminal film: “Deep Listening; The Story of Pauline Oliveros,” currently showing in selected theaters world-wide. (PaulineOliveros.us)

 

IONE is the Founding Director of the Ministry of Maåt, Inc (MinistryofMaat.org) and Former Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (now The Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer).

 

IONE serves as mentor and advisor at Center For Deep Listening.

 

IONE was a member of the Kingston, NY Arts Commission for several years. A member of the Distinguished Mentors Council of Composers Now.

 

IONE’s recent opera, TOUCH, with composer Karen Power, premiered at Irish National Opera and she is preparing another major work with the same team. (Ionedreams.us)

 

Her commissioned work,”SunSound Keeper” premiered in April 24 at Oberlin College, inspired by the recent total eclipse of the sun. (ionedreams.us)