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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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Pauline Oliveros
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: May 30
Died: 2016
Died: November 24
Accordionist
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Houston
Texas
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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.
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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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When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.
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We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I would say there a few thousand people out there that have some relationship to what we do.
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When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.
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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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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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In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it started. And I had a tape recorder and started making things with it.
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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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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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Something that I did, and I developed out of that sonic meditations, which were pieces that I composed in the '70s that now are very well-known and used in many classrooms all over the world, but at the time were outrageous.
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When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there.
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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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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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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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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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[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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I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.
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It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.
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Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.
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