Michael Ned Holte × Sming Sming Books: Good Listener Bundle (Book & Hat)

Good Listener Bundle containing:

• 1 copy of Michael Ned Holte's Good Listener: Meditations on Music and Pauline Oliveros book
• 1 Good Listener hat

ISBN: 978-1-953189-22-6, February 2026, English, 5 x 7 in, 616 pages, b&w, softcover
Embroidered hat, adult size, 100% cotton, chino twill. Purple embroidery on black hat featuring Good Listener title on front with Sming Sming Books logo on back.

Released in conjunction with Michael Ned Holte's Good Listener: Meditations on Music and Pauline Oliveros.

Good Listener: Meditations on Music and Pauline Oliveros is a performance-in-writing of Oliveros’s Sonic Meditation XXI—a text score in the form of a question: “What constitutes your musical universe?” Michael Ned Holte responds to this brief but expansive prompt with a daily meditation that focuses attention on the work of Oliveros—the revolutionary composer, feminist and queer icon, and Deep Listening theorist—but expands outward to consider the author’s own evolving relationship to music and sound. As a performance that documents its own making, the text also serves as a reflection on time, memory, improvisation, silence, solitude, loss, friendship, teaching, visual art, taste, and material culture, among many other subjects summoned in its daily pursuit.