That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise. — Pauline Oliveros Disabilities Copy Share Image
I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones. — Pauline Oliveros Consciousness Copy Share Image
When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention. — Pauline Oliveros Attention Copy Share Image
It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals… — Pauline Oliveros Communication Copy Share Image
I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part. — Pauline Oliveros Challenge Copy Share Image
It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points. — Pauline Oliveros Audience Copy Share Image
After a long section of the glass playing, you'll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There'll be a lot… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Deep Listening Institute is dissolving and is now the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The legacy of the… — Pauline Oliveros Deep listening Copy Share Image
I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The… — Pauline Oliveros Architecture Copy Share Image
In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's… — Pauline Oliveros Community Copy Share Image
When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string… — Pauline Oliveros Couple Copy Share Image
I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a… — Pauline Oliveros Festivals Copy Share Image
Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a… — Pauline Oliveros Beautiful Copy Share Image
It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I… — Pauline Oliveros Exploration Copy Share Image
The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just… — Pauline Oliveros Fool Copy Share Image
[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I'm currently very impressed with the level of understanding and of interest in listening that I experience wherever I go. That motivates… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in vertical space.I want the players to listen to their sound in such a way that they hear the… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder.… — Pauline Oliveros Access Copy Share Image
The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and… — Pauline Oliveros Communication Copy Share Image
I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not… — Pauline Oliveros Education Copy Share Image
I thought that it would be interesting to have a mirror and grab a light and shine it around in different ways.… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree… — Pauline Oliveros Boulders Copy Share Image
It takes time because the habitual response to that is very deep. It goes back to our earliest responses as babies. You… — Pauline Oliveros Baby Copy Share Image
Before that, an 8-bit recording was pixelated; it was really bad. It didn't serve what I was doing, which was recording live… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Something that I did, and I developed out of that sonic meditations, which were pieces that I composed in the '70s that… — Pauline Oliveros Classroom Copy Share Image
I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything… — Pauline Oliveros Country Copy Share Image
My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income.… — Pauline Oliveros Accordion Copy Share Image
The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's… — Pauline Oliveros Algorithms Copy Share Image
There are these sounds that come from outside that work really well if you're listening. If you're not listening, if you're blocking… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
![“Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations and so forth. I developed the EIS over the time period that I was just talking about [1991].” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d7a/pauline-oliveros-8481_delay_now-i-have-about-twenty-per-hand-and-can_2691031.jpg)
![“[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7b3/pauline-oliveros-8481_ensemble_students-they-did-the-sonic-meditations_223257.jpg)
![“My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the sound. I had a wooden apple box with a Piezo [contact] mic and little objects that I could amplify on the box. I used the bathtub for reverberation.” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/196/pauline-oliveros-8481_amplify_my-first-tape-piece-was-made-with-that-s_1181946.jpg)
![“The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on.” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6e4/pauline-oliveros-8481_communication_the-mission-of-institution-won-t-change_2815959.jpg)
