Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016) began playing accordion at age nine in Houston and resolved at sixteen to become a composer. In the summer of 1962 she co-founded the San Francisco Tape Music Center with Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick, later serving as founding director when it moved to Mills College in 1966. She taught at UC San Diego from 1967 to 1981, directing its Center for Music Experiment from 1976 to 1979, before leaving her tenured position to work independently. In 1988, descending into the Dan Harpole underground cistern in Port Townsend, Washington, she coined the term Deep Listening for a practice of radically expanded attention to sound, and formed the Deep Listening Band with Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis. She founded the Pauline Oliveros Foundation in 1985, renamed the Deep Listening Institute in 2005.
Works in the Library
Pauline Oliveros COMPOSITION
Pauline Oliveros piece documenting her early electronic work at UCSD, 1967-1970.
Pauline Oliveros COMPOSITION 1966
Pauline Oliveros's 1966 real-time tape piece, made at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio.
TIME INSTRUMENTS
Robert Breer, Frosty Myers, Robert Whitman, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, Lowell Cross, Fujiko Nakaya, Tony Martin, Ardison Phillips, Pauline Oliveros, John Pierce, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) INSTALLATION 1970
Artist-designed and -programmed environment for Expo '70, created by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.).
SPACE PERCEPTION
Related Groups in the Library
Pauline Oliveros, Maggi Payne ORGANIZATION
Mills Center for Contemporary Music
Successor to the San Francisco Tape Music Center, established at Mills College in 1966 under Pauline Oliveros.
INSTRUMENTS
Pauline Oliveros ORGANIZATION
University of California, San Diego Electronic Music Studio
UCSD's electronic music studio, established 1967 by Pauline Oliveros, later renamed the Center for Music Experiment.
