Pauline Oliveros
Composer-Performer
Founder of Deep Listening
"Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I finally know
what harmony is....It's about the pleasure of making music."
John Cage 1989
Composer/performer Pauline Oliveros based in Kingston,
New York since 1981 has performed worldwide as a soloist on her just tuned accordion
and with the Deep Listening Band.
(Tuning chart) As a composer her recent
awards include the Bessie Award from Dance Theater Workshop for Contenders (1991) a work for
Susan Marshall Dance Company, A Fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts in 1992 for composing Epigraphs in the Time of Aids for the Deep
Listening Band and a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance
1994 for her work. Her most recent compact disc Pauline Oliveros and
American Voices
(1994) is already gathering critical acclaim. Njinga
the Queen King (1992) a major work of music theater was created
in collaboration with playwright/director Ione
and presented during the Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music in
December 1993.
Seeking to support the creation of new works, their presentation and
dissemination Oliveros established Pauline Oliveros
Foundation Inc. in Kingston, NY - a non profit program for the arts
in 1985. Currently she is the president and founder. Oliveros' career and
history as a new music pioneer date to the early 60's when she became the first
Director of the Tape Music Center at Mills College. She then moved to a
fourteen year stay at the University of California at San Diego, where she was
a vital part of that institution's world-reknown new music program. She serves
now as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
and as Darius Milhaud Composer in Residence at Mills College. Oliveros is
considered the originator of today's meditational music, and is the composer of
Sonic Meditations and Deep Listening Pieces. Her music and
philosophies have been an inspiration to all forms of meditative art. Pauline
has written articles for the Leonardo Music
Journal.