Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros at a dinner concert in Oakland
Oliveros in 2010
Born(1932-05-30)May 30, 1932
Houston, Texas, U.S.
DiedNovember 24, 2016(2016-11-24) (aged 84)
Kingston, New York, U.S.[1]
OccupationMusician
Known forDeep Listening Band
SpouseCarole Ione Lewis
Oliveros (right) playing in Mexico City in 2006

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016)[2] was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.

She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros authored books, formulated new music theories, and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "deep listening" and "sonic awareness", drawing on metaphors from cybernetics.[3][4] She was an Eyebeam resident.

  1. ^ Smith, Steve (2016-11-28). "Pauline Oliveros, Composer Who Championed 'Deep Listening,' Dies at 84". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  2. ^ Wagner, Laura, "Pauline Oliveros, Pioneer Of 'Deep Listening,' Dies At 84". Cited an Instagram post by flautist Claire Chase and confirmation by friends on Oliveros' Facebook page. Retrieved 2016-11-26.
  3. ^ Theodore Gordon (2021) ‘Androgynous Music’: Pauline Oliveros’s Early Cybernetic Improvisation, Contemporary Music Review, 40:4, 386-408, DOI: 10.1080/07494467.2021.2001939
  4. ^ Taylor, Timothy (Autumn 1993). "The Gendered Construction of the Musical Self: The Music of Pauline Oliveros". The Musical Quarterly. 77 (3). Oxford University Press: 385–396. doi:10.1093/mq/77.3.385. JSTOR 742386.