finetune artist: Pauline Oliveros

A pioneering figure of American avant-garde music, composer/performer Pauline Oliveros is an innovator in the fields of electronic music, improvisation, and meditative sound--a heightened state of sonic awareness that she termed "Deep Listening." During the early-`60s, Oliveros, along with Morton Subotnick and Ramon Sender, founded the San Francisco Tape Center, an important early focal point of electronic and tape music. It was here that she began her explorations into just intonation (tuned intervals of the same harmonic series), and electronics, altering the sound of her accordion using sophisticated signal processing setups of her own design. During the `80s, Oliveros worked primarily with her group, the Deep Listening Band, taking a particular interest in performing and recording in heavily reverberant spaces such as cathedrals and caves. A tireless educator and activist, in the `90s she took a tenure position at the University of California at San Diego, and continues to promote diversity and experimentation in the arts through her own Pauline Oliveros Foundation.

Listen to Pauline Oliveros at Finetune.

(1989) Deep Listening

Bye Bye Butterfly
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