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A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

Pauline Oliveros

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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
Instruments
Good
Keyboard
Keyboards
Mouse
Mice
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Performance
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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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I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.
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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 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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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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I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.
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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 had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.
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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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When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.
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Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.
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Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .
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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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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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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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You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.
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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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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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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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Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.
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