Achieve Quote by Pauline Oliveros

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

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

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

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

— Pauline Oliveros

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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

I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using…

— Pauline Oliveros