Quotes by Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

Improvisation

After a long section of the glass playing, you’ll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There’ll be a lot of mystery about the sound, I think.

Glasses

Long

Thinking

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola – a wind-up record player – and my grandfather’s crystal radio, and my father’s shortwave radio.

Father

Player

Wind

Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening

Listening

Matter

Musical

Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you’re not. But going below the surface too, it’s an active process. It’s not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you’re tuned out, then you’re not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing.

Focus

Mean

Music

First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn’t any classes in electronic music. So I’d stay there all night and leave in the morning, observe the sun rise and have a lot of different kinds of sounds in my mind. But it was a quest, it was a search. It was research, it was learning.

Class

Morning

Night

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

Consciousness

Mean

Patterns

I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of sending signals from one track back to another track, or to the same track, or crisscrossing them and so forth. I worked on masking the delays so when I played into the machine, I would make long tones and collect sounds in such a way that you didn’t hear the delay, although sometimes you did.

Delay

Long

Track

I didn’t have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to make music; it was for testing purposes. So we had to repurpose all the equipment to make music. That made me try a lot of different things.

Different

Purpose

Trying

I felt a challenge to compose music. That’s where my challenge was, for the most part.

Challenges

Felt

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Acoustics

Acting

Algorithms

Amplify

Apples

Baby

Beautiful

Block

Butterfly

Care

Challenges

Class

Community

Consciousness

Country

Couple

Decision

Delay

Different

Disability

Ears

Ensemble

Europe

Exercise

Father

Feet

Felt

Focus

Fun

Glasses

Hearing

Home

Improvisation

Light

Listening

Long

Lying

Matter

Mean

Meditation

Michigan

Might

Mind

Mirrors

Missing

Morning

Mother

Music

Musical

Night

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Quotes by Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

After a long section of the glass playing, you’ll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There’ll be a lot of mystery about the sound, I think.

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola – a wind-up record player – and my grandfather’s crystal radio, and my father’s shortwave radio.

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.

I didn’t have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to make music; it was for testing purposes. So we had to repurpose all the equipment to make music. That made me try a lot of different things.

I felt a challenge to compose music. That’s where my challenge was, for the most part.

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