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“I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.” quote by Pauline Oliveros — Download Open 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

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One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on the table, and put it on. I didn't bother to look at what it was because I didn't care, and it turned out to be Madame Butterfly. So I processed the aria from Madame Butterfly in…

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Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.

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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…

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[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something…

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It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting…

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I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

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I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as…

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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 listen carefully to what a person has to say. And not to force them into any direction at all but simply to model what you've experienced, model it and also be what I call a Listening…

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