November 19

5pm-7pm

EMPAC Studio Beta

This interactive experience explores how engaged social practice can serve as a methodology for collective research and restorative community building. Through facilitated invitation, inspired by the work of Pauline Oliveros (musician, humanitarian, and founder of Deep Listening), participants explore presence and play, cultivating capacity for orientation to what is emerging in this moment. This work positions the body as our wise collaborator, a friend that we welcome, as is, into our practice.

Jane Rigler is a musician whose lifelong performative practice has transformed into an invitational social practice that promotes play, connection, and imagination as embodied research. With foundations in flute performance from Northwestern University (B.M.) and experimental music from UCSD (M.M., Ph.D.), Jane’s international career spans performance, composition, education, and facilitation. As an international performer and composer, her works explore movement, languages, and ancestral songs, and are featured worldwide at electronic music festivals and on various labels. Jane’s artistic journey includes prestigious residencies (Civitella Ranieri, Montalvo, Ucross) and international research, from studying Noh theatre during her US-Japan Friendship Fellowship to exploring Irish (Gaeilge) traditions on a Fulbright Award. As a (former) Associate Professor at the University of Colorado (2010-2024), she taught flute, composition, computer music, sound art, and co-taught interdisciplinary humanities studies courses that embedded listening practices as ecological consciousness and collaborative creations.