In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape. — Pauline Oliveros Music 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 Accordion Copy Share Image
You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise. — Pauline Oliveros Disabilities Copy Share Image
My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and… — 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 Awareness 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music… — Pauline Oliveros Accordion 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
Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
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 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 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
We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I… — 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
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 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 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… — 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 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
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
I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical… — 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 Classroom 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
My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income.… — Pauline Oliveros Accordion 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 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 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 Baby 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
Before that, an 8-bit recording was pixelated; it was really bad. It didn't serve what I was doing, which was recording live… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the… — 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 Fool 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 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
I'm very interested in vertical space.I want the players to listen to their sound in such a way that they hear the… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll start from the initial idea, what motivated me to do that. In 1953, I had access to a tape recorder.… — Pauline Oliveros Access 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
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 and so forth. I developed the EIS over the time period that I was just talking about [1991].” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7a/pauline-oliveros-8481_delay_now-i-have-about-twenty-per-hand-and-can_2691031.jpg)
![“My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the sound. I had a wooden apple box with a Piezo [contact] mic and little objects that I could amplify on the box. I used the bathtub for reverberation.” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/pauline-oliveros-8481_amplify_my-first-tape-piece-was-made-with-that-s_1181946.jpg)
![“[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b3/pauline-oliveros-8481_ensemble_students-they-did-the-sonic-meditations_223257.jpg)
![“The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on.” quote by Pauline Oliveros](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/pauline-oliveros-8481_communication_the-mission-of-institution-won-t-change_2815959.jpg)
