Femke Dekker (aka Loma Doom) has long been immersed in both sound and education. Across lecture halls, archives, festivals, art galleries, independent radio stations, and dance floors, she orbits two central questions: What if listening itself were an artistic practice? What might unfold when listening becomes method, medium, and material? The book Open Field Listening Station takes shape around these ideas.

Deep Listening

Drawing on the work of scholars and artists, most notably Pauline Oliveros, Dekker approaches listening as a call to action: a way of tuning into one’s surroundings, one’s body, and the urgencies that contour our political and social worlds. She emphasizes the radical potential of reorienting knowledge toward collective attunement: the we rather than the I (or the eye). Inspired by Oliveros’s concept of Deep Listening — a way of expanding awareness through focused, embodied perception — Dekker acknowledges the composer as a foundational feminist figure whose insights continue to reverberate through the classroom, the studio, and beyond.

The text originates from Dekker’s graduation thesis for the master of education in arts at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. It was published in 2026.

Paperback, 96 pages.