Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. History and Time-Line Highlights

2007
• Pauline Oliveros receives a Fulbright Senior Specialist award to travel to New Zealand in the summer of 2007 to present improvisations and study local musician's improvisations.

• Deep Listening Gathering and Convergence; The virtual residency begins with fifty musicians invited to discuss ideas and rehearse online supported by the New York State Music Fund.

2006
• DLI receives $65,000 from the New York State Music Fund to create ensembles among fifty musicians in an virtual online residency culminating in a physical residency and three concerts in Upstate New York in Troy, Hudson and Kingston in June 2007.

• Planetary Soundpaintings: DLI's label manager Al Margolis composed and performed "Mercury" with Sarah Weaver and Weave Soundpainting Orchestra on March 5, 2006 in Chicago, IL initiating a two year project. Composers who hold Deep Listening Certificates are offered commissions to compose a piece with a planet as a focus for Weave directed by Sarah Weaver.

• The Sixteenth Annual Deep Listening Retreat is held at Rose Mountain Retreat Center in New Mexico.

2005
• Pauline Oliveros Foundation (POF) becomes Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. (DLI)

• Rothko Chapel performance: Pauline Oliveros, accordion with the Youth Improvisation Ensemble under the direction of David Dove from Deep Listening Institute Houston.

• DomeWorks; Pauline Oliveros directs DLI's DomeWorks project with eight associate artists, creating multi-media pieces for a 20 foot portable geodesic dome with 8 channel surround sound, as master artist in residence for three weeks at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach FL

• Deep Listening releases two new compact discs: Deep Time by the extraordinary Swiss percussionist Fritz Hauser, commissioned and performed by the Deep Listening Band with Hauser; and Things Heard Unheard, by Brooklyn percussionist Brian Willson with his trio.

• Ione's 10th Annual Dream Festival provided a full month's activities in October featuring the marvelous shoe dance Labyrinth by Canadians Yvonne Ng, dancer/choreographer and Anne Bourne, cellist. Dream Stream, an all night performance for dreaming audience created by DLI intern
and composer Zevin Polzin with performed visual projections created by Diana Slattery, a reading and book party with Jill Johnston, and Dreamscape a solo percussion journey by Fritz Hauser.

• Pauline Oliveros, accordion and EIS and Ione, spoken word and sonic vocals perform together in the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa Japan

2004
• Deep Listening releases its first DVD: "Recording Field H", featuring the live-electronic performance ensemble "interface," (Curtis Bahn,"Sensor/Speaker Performer (SSPeaPer)", Dan Trueman "Bowed Sensor/Speaker Array (BoSSA.),"and Tomie Hahn, dance, with guest artist Pauline Oliveros, "Expanded Instrument System (EIS)". The DVD includes three extended improvisations, and the Bahn/Hahn interactive dance pieces "streams," and "Pikapika"

• The Deep Listening House Band initiated by Intern Sarah Weaver and Deep Listening apprentice William Stevens meet weekly to do listening practices and rehearse Deep Listening Pieces by Oliveros. This work is new to many musicians.

• The distinguished American composer Morton Subotnik demonstrates his Creating Music CD-roms for parents and Educators. followed by a workshop for children Ages 7-13. Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles.

Women and Identity Festival 2004

• Trombone Alone: Monique Buzzarté performs New Music by Women: commissioned compositions for her trombone, tape, electronics, and live processing. Miortiza by Alice Shields, The Left of Time by Anne LeBaron, Three Meditations on War at Home by K. Teremi Shorb, and Snapdragon by Alexandra Gardner, as well as a special holiday surprise by Buzzarté.

• Concentration Camp: an Installation by Jone Miller of the Floating Foundation for Photography

• Always Creative, Elders as Teachers of Collaboration: Video and Discussion, by Linda Montano with Tobe Carey

2003
• The Alternating Currents Series presents works by young composers and performers curated by graduate students from area colleges and universities on the second Thursday of each month.

2002
• Sounding the Margins: A Forty Year Retrospective of the Music of Pauline Oliveros with the Meridian Gallery and Mills College at the Lorraine Hansberry Theater in San Francisco.

• The Library of Maps: An Opera in Many Parts with text by Moira Roth, music and sound design by Pauline Oliveros

2001
• Io and Her and the Trouble with Him' - a dance opera performed in the Union Theater, University of Wisconsin Madison.

• POF - Houston established in Texas

• POF - Bay Area established in California

2000
• Lunar Opera:Deep Listening For_Tunes; performed during Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors

• Ten Year Celebration Deep Listening Retreats

• Three Year Deep Listening Certificate program's third graduating class: 2 individuals from Canada and Switzerland

• Ione's Fifth Annual Dream Festival

• Fifth Annual Celebration of Cultures concert series

1999

• Fourth Annual Celebration of 'Cultures' concert series

• Ione's Fourth Annual Dream Festival

• Three Year Deep Listening Certificate program's second graduating class: 2 individuals from the United States.

• Two Graduates of the Certificate program enter the five year Deep Listening Apprentice program

1998

• Deep Listening Band Decade Concerts

• Third Annual Celebration of 'Cultures' concert series

• Ione's Third Annual 'Dream Festival'

• Three Year Deep Listening Certificate program's first graduating class: seven individuals from the United States, Germany, Canada, and Switzerland

• Initation of five year Deep Listening Apprentice program

1997
• Ione's Second Annual Dream Festival

• Celebration of Cultures concert series

• Establishment of DeepL, an email list for the Deep Listening community

1996
• Celebration of Cultures concert series inaugurated

• Ione's First Dream Festival

• Establishment of the three year Deep Listening Certificate program

• Deep Listening Space building purchased August 13, 1996

1995
• Deep Listening Band performs a virtual concert from New York with other ensembles interacting musically with the Band while originating from Paris and Toronto.

• Mode Records releases 'Deep Listening Sanctuary,' a compact disc recorded by the Deep Listening Band in Kingston's Trinity United Methodist Church.

1994
• Foundation sponsors Swiss musician, Margrit Schenker (accordion/voice) in year-long artist residency in Kingston.

• First live interactive multi media TV performance on Njinga themes broadcast live from IEAR Studio in Troy, NY. Local artists interacting with distance participation by artists from other locations via Picture-Tel, live phone-in and Internet.

1993
• 'Njinga the Queen King' performed in Lisbon, Portugal with a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation, at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and Brooklyn Academy of Music.

• Deep Listening Catalog available on the Internet.

1992
• POF sponsors an ensemble of artists in residence: Tom Buckner, George Marsh, Jennifer Wilsey.

• 'The Ready Made Boomerang' is recorded by Deep Listening Band with guest artists William O. Smith and Thomasa Eckhart. Compact disc released by New Albion.

• Five hour marathon concert of Deep Listening Band at Panasonic Hall, Tokyo. The multi-media event, broadcast over 700 speakers, included Japanese instrumentalists, dancers and video artists.

1991
• 'Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color' by Carole Ione is published by Summit Press/Simon Shuster.

• 'Njinga The Queen King' is commissioned by the Yellow Springs Institute, Chester, PA, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY, and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Workshop/performance at Yellow Springs Institute.

• Deep Listening Band commissions 'Deep Time' by Fritz Hauser

• 'Njinga the Queen King' work in progress presented in Kingston Urban Cultural Park by the Njinga Players and neighborhood volunteers.

1990
• Fritz Hauser, Swiss percussionist, is Foundation's first foreign artist in residence in Kingston, NY

• Pauline Oliveros and Ione travel to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil to research 'Njinga The Queen King.'

• 'Troglodyte's Delight,' the Deep Listening Band's second compact disc released by 'What Next?' Recorded in Tarpaper Cave - Rosendale, NY 1989

• Establishment of Deep Listening Catalog with a list of fifty composers.

• Deep Listening CD, recorded in Ft. Worden Cistern in Washington state. Released by New Albion Records.

• Deep Listening is named one of the year's ten best recordings by Pulse Magazine and New Sounds -WNYC.

• Inspired by the Deep Listening CD, John Cage writes The Ready Made Boomerang - a mesostic.

1988
Establishment of Deep Listening Band.

1987
• Premiere of 'Echoes From the Moon,' an installation/performance by Morgan Ohara and Pauline Oliveros produced by the Pauline Oliveros Foundation and presented at Mobius Gallery in Boston. Echoes From the Moon was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

• Music for 'Njinga the Queen King' commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts

• Judith Malina - poet and founder of The Living Theater, presented by Live Letters in New York City.

1986
• Inaugural concert of new works by composers Anna Rubin, Shelley Hirsch, Lois V. Vierck, presented at the Dia Foundation, NYC.

1985
• Establishment of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation