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
I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic… — 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… — Pauline Oliveros 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'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
Deep Listening Institute is dissolving and is now the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The legacy of the… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions. — Pauline Oliveros 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 Copy Share Image
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening — Pauline Oliveros 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
Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's… — 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 Copy Share Image
Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds. — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening… — Pauline Oliveros 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 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… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
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… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
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… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
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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