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I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.
Pauline Oliveros
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Pauline Oliveros
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: May 30
Died: 2016
Died: November 24
Accordionist
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Music Theorist
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Houston
Texas
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The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].
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I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.
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It takes time because the habitual response to that is very deep. It goes back to our earliest responses as babies. You have to feel safe, and if a sound is threatening, you're going to be upset. There are those early responses, depending on how and what kind of experiences you had.
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I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.
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I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.
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I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders.
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I thought that it would be interesting to have a mirror and grab a light and shine it around in different ways. It's an analog to the acoustic reflections that we're going to be trying to activate as well.
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I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take my hands off the keyboard or the buttons or whatever. Don't you understand! .
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My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example.
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We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.
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Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.
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There are these sounds that come from outside that work really well if you're listening. If you're not listening, if you're blocking them out, then you don't get it. You don't get the merger of what the players are doing with everything, listening to everything.
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I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.
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A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.
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Before that, an 8-bit recording was pixelated it was really bad. It didn't serve what I was doing, which was recording live sound and delaying it and feeding it back. This is essentially what the EIS system is: a bunch of delays.
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It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening.
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[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.
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The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.
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Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening
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[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.
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