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
Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening. — 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 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
I had a lot of good times. I had a lot of fun. I liked what I was doing, so I just… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I didn't have any sophisticated equipment at all. The equipment we had in the studio at the time was not intended to… — Pauline Oliveros 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 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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