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… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on the table, and put it on. I didn't bother to look at what it was because I didn't care, and it turned out to be Madame Butterfly. So I processed the aria from Madame Butterfly in… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share
I can't really deal with buttons. And that's what I keep saying, "Okay, I can't push buttons, because that means I have to take… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
There is a book called San Francisco Tape Music Centre:1960s Counterculture and the Avant-Garde and this book describes everything that you want to know or don't want to know about it, with a lot of documentation. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music. — Pauline Oliveros 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 where it… — Pauline Oliveros 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 had something… — Pauline Oliveros 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 of reflecting… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
People's experiences are all different, and you don't know what the person experienced. They know, but you don't, so I think it's important to listen carefully to what a person has to say. And not to force them into any direction at all but simply to model what you've experienced, model it and also be what I call a Listening… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share
I noticed you could monitor the recording that you're making, but you could also monitor the playback head. There's a little distance between them… — 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 I'd stay… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
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