Pauline Oliveros

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Pauline Oliveros (August 2010)

Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932 in Houston , Texas , † November 25, 2016 in New York City , New York ) was an American composer and accordionist.

Life

Oliveros studied in Houston from 1949 to 1952 and in San Francisco from 1954 to 1956 and took private tuition from 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 .

plant

In 1985 she founded The Pauline Oliveros Foundation in Kingston / New York . With the Deep Listening program, which is part of the foundation, and the Deep Listening Band , she created a connection between meditation and music. In 2005 the foundation became the Deep Listening Institute . On June 9, 2014, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , the oldest technical university in the English-speaking world, announced the establishment of the Center For Deep Listening , which is to continue the work of the Deep Listening Institute and to preserve the life's work of Oliveros.

In addition to orchestral works and works for chamber music , she composed sound patterns for mixed choir (1961) and multimedia works such as a piece for electronically modified piano, tape and light effects and a play for fifteen actors, film and projections, tape and live sound material.

With the Deep Listening Band she recorded the album of the same name, Deep Listening , in October 1988 , which music experts consider a milestone in spatial sound art . In October 2013 she celebrated the band's 25th anniversary with a concert in Canada , together with founding member Stuart Dempster, the artist and writer Ione and the guest musicians Jonas Braasch , Jesse Stewart and Johannes Welsch. Oliveros and Dempster dedicated the concert to long-time band member David Gamper, who died in 2011. In 2017, works by the artist were performed at documenta 14 . In 2020 Oliveros presented the album Sounding / Way with Guy Klucevse .

Awards

Fonts

  • Breaking the silence , in: MusikTexte 76/77, 3–4.
  • The roots of the moment. About hearing , in: MusikTexte 76/77, 83–85.
  • Space is the place. Quantum Composition: The Cybernetic Present , in: MusikTexte 80, 11–15.
  • No composing without concepts , in: MusikTexte 145, 69.
  • Sex as we don't know it. Future prospects of computer music , in: MusikTexte 152, 56–65.

Secondary literature

  • Margaret Ahrens: molting. About Pauline Oliveros , in: MusikTexte 76/77, 75–81.
  • Pamela A. Madsen: Huge lap. The concept of “presence” in Pauline Oliveros' “Rose Moon” , in: MusikTexte 76/77, 85–90.
  • Katherine Setar: Watertank Software. An “interaction” between Pauline Oliveros and a reverberant room , in: MusikTexte 76/77, 96–101.
  • On the death of Pauline Oliveros. Contributions by Geeta Dayal, Ellen Fullman , Maggi Payne , Alvin Lucier , Christina Kubisch , Roger Reynolds , Bill Dietz, Brenda Hutchinson , Alvin Curran , Anne Bourne, Diamanda Galás , Christian Wolff , Johannes Goebel, Gisela Gronemeyer, in: MusikTexte 152, 37 -56.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joshua Kosman: Pauline Oliveros, musical performer and experimentalist, this . San Francisco Chronicle , November 25, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016.
  2. ^ Deep Listening Band in the English language Wikipedia
  3. ^ Deep Listening Institute
  4. ↑ Center For Deep Listening Opens In Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences . In: RPI News , June 9, 2014.
  5. ^ Stuart Dempster in the English language Wikipedia
  6. ↑ Johannes Welsch in the English language Wikipedia
  7. ^ Deep Listening Band with Pauline Oliveros at the Dunrobin Sonic Gym. Ottawa Jazz Scene, May 31, 2013; Archived from the original on May 22, 2014 ; accessed on November 27, 2016 (English). David Gamper in the English language Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Oliveros, Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , Texas
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2016
Place of death New York City