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Pauline Oliveros

Composer/performer Pauline Oliveros based in Kingston, New York since 1981 has performed worldwide as a soloist on her just tuned accordion and with the Deep Listening Band. (Tuning chart) As a composer her recent awards include the Bessie Award from Dance Theater Workshop for Contenders (1991) a work for Susan Marshall Dance Company, A Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1992 for composing Epigraphs in the Time of Aids for the Deep Listening Band and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance 1994 for her work. Her most recent compact disc Pauline Oliveros and American Voices (1994) is already gathering critical acclaim. Njinga the Queen King (1992) a major work of music theater was created in collaboration with playwright/director Ione and presented during the Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 1993.

Seeking to support the creation of new works, their presentation and dissemination Oliveros established Pauline Oliveros Foundation Inc. in Kingston, NY - a non profit program for the arts in 1985. Currently she is the president and founder. Oliveros' career and history as a new music pioneer date to the early 60's when she became the first Director of the Tape Music Center at Mills College. She then moved to a fourteen year stay at the University of California at San Diego, where she was a vital part of that institution's world-reknown new music program. She serves now as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and as Darius Milhaud Composer in Residence at Mills College. Oliveros is considered the originator of today's meditational music, and is the composer of Sonic Meditations and Deep Listening Pieces. Her music and philosophies have been an inspiration to all forms of meditative art. Pauline has written articles for the Leonardo Music Journal.

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Pauline Oliveros: Sound Pieces

Read "Sound Pieces" reviewed by John Eyles


In the years since her death in 2016, aged 84, the popularity and influence of composer, musician, academic and author Pauline Oliveros have grown steadily in ways of which she would have been proud. Each year has seen new recordings issued, some featuring Oliveros herself, often on accordion, but increasingly recordings of her compositions played by others have overtaken those. Sound Pieces is one of the latter albums. It features six Oliveros compositions played by Apartment House, the earliest, “Horse ...

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Pauline Oliveros, Roscoe Mitchell, John Tilbury, Wadada Leo Smith: Nessuno

Read "Nessuno" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Non è Ulisse né una celebre canzone portata al successo da Mina: questa è semplicemente la riproposizione integrale di un concerto tenutosi l'8 maggio 2011 a Bologna nell'ambito della rassegna Angelica, in cui nessuno dei quattro performers occupava (almeno sulla carta) posizioni di preminenza. In realtà quanto svoltosi quella sera di oltre cinque anni fa al festival bolognese ebbe due figure indiscutibilmente preponderanti, in maniera quasi ovvia, al di là degli strumenti suonati, trattandosi di due dei ...

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Pauline Oliveros/Roscoe Mitchell/John Tilbury/Wadada Leo Smith: Nessuno

Read "Nessuno" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


In 1991 the label I Dischi Di Angelica was founded solely for the purpose of documenting the performances of its namesake music festival in Italy. The non-profit label has grown--but only marginally--releasing a compact catalog of global music, typically related to artists that have some association with the annual event. Fortunately for fans of creative music, producer Massimo Simonini captured this unique event at AngelicA Festival in Teatro San Leonardo, Italy in 2011 and rendered here as Nessuno.

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Pauline Oliveros & Connie Crothers: Live At the Stone

Read "Live At the Stone" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Connie Crothers passed away in August of 2016; an accomplished composer, improviser and pianist, she was not nearly as well-known as she should have been for someone whose talent attracted musical partnerships with Max Roach and Lennie Tristano. Despite playing everywhere from the downtown scene, to Carnegie Hall, to Europe's music halls, her refusal to run parallel to strict lines of free improvisation, avant-garde or mainstream, placed her in a no-man's land where others would later follow. Creative music was ...

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Pauline Oliveros: Accordion & Voice

Read "Accordion & Voice" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


It's understandable if Pauline Oliveros is not a top-of-mind name, even after more than five decades in music. The eighty-two year old composer has been far-removed from the mainstream as a pioneer in the subculture of experimental electronic music and composition since the 1960s and her acoustic instrument of choice is the accordion. Yet her résumé speaks to broad range of interests and an impressive demand for her talents. She influenced avant-garde composers John Cage and Terry Riley, performed with ...

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Pauline Oliveros: The Roots of the Moment

Read "The Roots of the Moment" reviewed by Kurt Gottschalk


While Pauline Oliveros' output has its high and low marks, the composer, accordionist and organizer is an undeniable force in new music. For fifty years she has pursued sonic experiments, and as the founder of the Deep Listening Institute, she has supported many other sound innovators. Sadly, it's sometimes easier to respect her from afar than to closely follow her work. Her choices in collaborators can get in the way, and they often seem to be made out ...

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Pauline Oliveros: The Roots of the Moment

Read "The Roots of the Moment" reviewed by Brad Glanden


The music of Pauline Oliveros invites a consideration of her philosophical perspective, as the former is an outgrowth of the latter. Having established herself in the 1960s as one of the first composers to utilize electronics, Oliveros has since replaced the tape and oscillator experiments of her early work with performances that employ her interactive methodology of “Deep Listening."

This technique encourages a participatory approach to musical improvisation, eliminating the distinctions between composer, performer and listener. The Roots of the ...

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Pauline Oliveros : The Roots Of The Moment on hatOLOGY 591

Pauline Oliveros : The Roots Of The Moment on hatOLOGY 591

Source: All About Jazz

New CD: The Roots of the Moment

Pauline Oliveros : accordion in just intonation in an interactive electronic environment created by Peter Ward.

For more than 50 years, Pauline Oliveros has been on a continuing mission: “... to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." If those words bring to mind the voyages of the Starship Enterprise from the television series Star Trek, the parallels ...

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Pauline Oliveros: "The Roots Of The Moment" on hatOLOGY 591

Pauline Oliveros: "The Roots Of The Moment" on hatOLOGY 591

Source: All About Jazz

Pauline Oliveros The Roots Of The Moment hatOLOGY 591 Total time 58:19

Pauline Oliveros: accordion in just intonation in an interactive electronic environment created by Peter Ward.

For more than 50 years, Pauline Oliveros has been on a continuing mission: “...to explore new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. “If those words bring to mind the voyages of the Starship Enterprise from ...

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Nessuno

I Dischi Di Angelica
2017

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Live At the Stone

Important Records
2016

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Nessuno

I Dischi Di Angelica
2016

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Accordion & Voice

Important Records
2014

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The Dunrobin Session

McClees Corporation
2012

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Accordion To Bass

McClees Corporation
2011

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