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Transcendent Waves : How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives - Lavender Suarez

Transcendent Waves

How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives

By: Lavender Suarez

Paperback | 19 November 2020

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How can thoughtfully and intentionally listening to our world expand and inform our creative practices? What insights can we gain when we delve into the immersive world of sound, which permeates our every moment?

In Transcendent Waves, sound healing practitioner, meditation teacher, and artist Lavender Suarez outlines how listening can unlock moments of creative spark, self awareness, and calm in a work that is equal parts how-to guide and contemplative artist’s workbook. Suarez’s illustrated meditations follow in the artistic tradition of Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit and the creations of the Fluxus group, but also offer a modern take on listening in a world that gets louder every day.

Covering everything from the noise of everyday life to musical compositions, Transcendent Waves compiles scientific evidence, anecdotes, and thoughtful prompts to spark a sense of wonderment and appreciation for the intricacies of sound and the new perspectives it can bring to our daily creative worlds.

About the Author

Lavender Suarez is a Brooklyn, NY-based sound healing practitioner, meditation teacher and artist. She has hosted workshops, sound baths and performed at numerous museums and artistic institutes including MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Rubin Museum and Pioneer Works, providing meditative deep listening experiences for her creative audience. Suarez is a certified member of the Sound Healers Association and is certified in Tibetan Usui Reiki. She has a B.S. in Psychology with a concentration in artistic therapies from St.
Industry Reviews
Lavender Suarez beautifully details the ideas behind how sound affects the world we live in. - Selective Memory Magazine (Dec. 2020)
Transcendent Waves is a delightfully experimental new book which pays homage to the creative power of deep listening and the potential for sound to serve as a gateway towards transcendence. - Redefine Magazine, Jan. 2021
Virtually every page of this book features a concept that forces you to reconsider your approach to listening, to music and the world around you. For Suarez, listening is an active mode rather than a passive one; by focusing on it, sound can spark your imagination and kickstart your creativity. There are countless waves waiting to be caught. - Aquarium Drunkard, Book Club Selection, Jan. 2021

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