A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument. — Pauline Oliveros Instruments Copy Share Image
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music. — Pauline Oliveros Every day Copy Share Image
Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears — Pauline Oliveros Bottom Copy Share Image
Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening — Pauline Oliveros Communication Copy Share Image
Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932. — Pauline Oliveros Born Copy Share Image
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions. — Pauline Oliveros Acting Copy Share Image
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening. — Pauline Oliveros Communication Copy Share Image
I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that. — Pauline Oliveros Attitude Copy Share Image
The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now. — Pauline Oliveros Delayed 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 Ensemble Copy Share Image
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated… — Pauline Oliveros Accordion Copy Share Image
When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize. — Pauline Oliveros Composing 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 Ambient Copy Share Image
[My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught. — Pauline Oliveros Grandmother 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 Ears 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
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
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
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
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
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
It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot… — Pauline Oliveros Ends 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 Acoustics 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 Body Copy Share Image
I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of… — Pauline Oliveros Configuration 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 Able 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 Awareness 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 Barriers Copy Share Image
I have a variety of ways that I make music, but I'm working with the Thingamajigs in a particular way, which is:… — Pauline Oliveros Beautiful 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… — Pauline Oliveros Different Copy Share Image
I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night. — Pauline Oliveros All night Copy Share Image
[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it. — Pauline Oliveros Improvisation Copy Share Image
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this. — Pauline Oliveros Achieve 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
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
When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention. — Pauline Oliveros Attention 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
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