Sound Portraits Radio #20 Pauline Oliveros w/ Doron Sadja 11.06.2019

Pauline Oliveros is widely recognized as one of America’s most important
composers of the 20th and 21st century. A leader of the avant-garde and a
pioneer of improvisatory music, alternate tuning systems, contemporary accordion
playing, electronics and multimedia events, Oliveros continues to be a vital
force through her continuing performance and compositional practice. Oliveros
served as the first director of the storied San Francisco Tape Music Center,
where she worked alongside renowned artists like Morton Subotnick, Terry Riley,
Steve Reich, Don Buchla, and John Cage to help shape electronic music in the
US. In 1988 as a result of descending 14 feet into an underground cistern to
make a recording, Oliveros coined the term “Deep Listening” a pun that has
blossomed into, “an aesthetic based upon principles of improvisation, electronic
music, ritual, teaching and meditation. This aesth...

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