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Pauline Oliveros(* 30 May 1932 in Houston, Texas; † 25 November 2016 in New York City, New York) was a US composer and accordionist.

Life

Oliveros studied in Houston from 1949 to 1952 and in San Francisco from 1954 to 1956, taking private lessons with Robert Erickson. From 1961 she worked with Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. From 1967 to 1981 she was director of the Center for Music Experiment at the University of California in San Diego / California.

In 1985, she founded The Pauline Oliveros Foundation in Kingston, New York. With the foundation’s Deep Listening programme and the Deep Listening Band, she created a connection between meditation and music. In 2005, the foundation became the Deep Listening Institute. On 9 June 2014, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the oldest technical university in the English-speaking world, announced the creation of the Center For Deep Listening, which will continue the work of the Deep Listening Institute and be charged with preserving Oliveros’ life’s work.

In addition to orchestral works and works in chamber music instrumentation, she composed Sound Patterns for mixed choir (1961) and multimedia works such as a piece for electronically alienated piano, tape and lighting effects and a play for fifteen actors, film and projections, tape and live sound material.

With the Deep Listening Band, she recorded the eponymous album Deep Listening in October 1988, which is considered by music experts to be a milestone in spatial sound art. In October 2013, together with founding member Stuart Dempster, artist and writer Ione, and guest musicians Jonas Braasch, Jesse Stewart and Johannes Welsch, she celebrated the band’s 25th anniversary with a concert in Canada. Oliveros and Dempster dedicated the concert to long-time band member David Gamper, who passed away in 2011. In 2017, works by the artist were performed at documenta 14. In 2019, the album Sounding/Way with Guy Klucevsek was released posthumously.

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