After a long section of the glass playing, you'll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There'll be a lot… — Pauline Oliveros Glasses Copy Share Image
I thought that it would be interesting to have a mirror and grab a light and shine it around in different ways.… — Pauline Oliveros Acoustics 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 Block Copy Share Image
Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932. — Pauline Oliveros Born 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 Active Copy Share Image
The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we… — Pauline Oliveros Centre 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
I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what… — Pauline Oliveros Accordions 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 Exploration 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 Awareness 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
When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize. — Pauline Oliveros Composing Copy Share Image
All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my… — Pauline Oliveros Crystals 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 feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not… — Pauline Oliveros Education Copy Share Image
Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations… — Pauline Oliveros Delay 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
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 Communication Copy Share Image
You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's… — Pauline Oliveros Algorithms 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
Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever… — Pauline Oliveros Can do 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
A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument. — Pauline Oliveros Instruments 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
I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that. — Pauline Oliveros Attitude Copy Share Image