Pauline Oliveros

Just to re-cap a bit on what I presented earlier...Pauline Oliveros is a composer and performer of John Cage and more Avengarde styled music, and is an accordion player who specializes in post-war electronic music. She coined the term deep listening in 1991which she applied to her deep listening band and deep listening program of the deep listening institute. haha, say that five times fast. She's also a black belt and believes that listening can apply to ritual, healing and meditation. She splits up her philosophy of sound or "sonic awareness" into four major parts, the first two are global and focal attention, and from there it is split up into four parts: actively playing music, imagining music, presently listening to music or remember past music. Pauline Oliveros believed that every sound should be heard by everyone, everywhere and to enhance her performances she often played in resonant and reverberant settings such as in the great canyon or down in caves.

 

 "Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening".