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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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Pauline Oliveros
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: May 30
Died: 2016
Died: November 24
Accordionist
Composer
Music Theorist
Musician
University Teacher
Houston
Texas
Attention
Understanding
Certain
States
Awareness
Interested
Achieve

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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 felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.
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Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.
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The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on.
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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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