One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was… — Pauline Oliveros Aria 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… — Pauline Oliveros Buttons 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… — Pauline Oliveros 1960s Copy Share Image
Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music. — Pauline Oliveros Every day 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
[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I… — Pauline Oliveros Ensemble 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 got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this. — Pauline Oliveros Achieve 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
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 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
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 All night 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
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
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 Adopting Copy Share Image
I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night. — Pauline Oliveros All night 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 Deeper 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 Accordions 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
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 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
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated… — Pauline Oliveros Accordions 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 Available Copy Share Image
Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions. — Pauline Oliveros Acting Copy Share Image
I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part. — Pauline Oliveros Challenges Copy Share Image
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