LISTENING WITH PAULINE
March 5 - 27, 2022
A Sampling of Text Scores & Deep Listening Prompts
by composer, educator and humanitarian Pauline Oliveros.
In celebration of Women's History Month
"Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I finally know what harmony is...
It's about the pleasure of making music."
--John Cage 1989
PAULINE OLIVEROS 1932-2016
Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others' sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary-dissolving music making. In the '50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists and poets who gathered together in San Francisco. She influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual.
She was the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates and among her many recent awards were the William Schuman Award for Lifetime Achievement from Columbia University, New York, NY, The Giga-Hertz-Award for Lifetime Achievement in Electronic Music from ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany and the John Cage award from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts.
Oliveros was Distinguished Research Professor of Muic at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. She founded "Deep Listening®," which came from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation and electro-acoustics. She described Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds.
'Deep Listening is my life practice," Oliveros explained, simply. Oliveros founded Deep Listening Institute, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation on the Rondout Kingston to eventually move to Midtown and in 2014 moved to become the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer, Troy, NY. Her creative work is currently disseminated through The Pauline Oliveros Trust and the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. of Kingston, NY.
STILL LISTENING IN KINGSTON PROJECT:
Still Listening in Kingston is an initiative to continue the work and teachings of composer and Kingston resident Pauline Oliveros. Deep Listening is a listening practice that heightens awareness of sound and sounding, distinguishing the difference between listening and hearing. Still Listening Programs include Listening walks/retreats, workshops and ongoing concerts, Sonic Awareness with Listening Stations throughout the City, as well as the incorporation and development of state-of-the-art sound design- all assisting to showcase our area musicians. Still Listening events entertain and educate the inhabitants of the city and its visitors. We invite you to visit the City of Kingston’s Deep Listening Plaza, a pocket park honoring Pauline located on Broadway next to UPAC.
She was the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates and among her many recent awards were the William Schuman Award for Lifetime Achievement from Columbia University, New York, NY, The Giga-Hertz-Award for Lifetime Achievement in Electronic Music from ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany and the John Cage award from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts.
Oliveros was Distinguished Research Professor of Muic at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, and Darius Milhaud Artist-in-Residence at Mills College. She founded "Deep Listening®," which came from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation and electro-acoustics. She described Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds.
'Deep Listening is my life practice," Oliveros explained, simply. Oliveros founded Deep Listening Institute, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation on the Rondout Kingston to eventually move to Midtown and in 2014 moved to become the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer, Troy, NY. Her creative work is currently disseminated through The Pauline Oliveros Trust and the Ministry of Maåt, Inc. of Kingston, NY.
STILL LISTENING IN KINGSTON PROJECT:
Still Listening in Kingston is an initiative to continue the work and teachings of composer and Kingston resident Pauline Oliveros. Deep Listening is a listening practice that heightens awareness of sound and sounding, distinguishing the difference between listening and hearing. Still Listening Programs include Listening walks/retreats, workshops and ongoing concerts, Sonic Awareness with Listening Stations throughout the City, as well as the incorporation and development of state-of-the-art sound design- all assisting to showcase our area musicians. Still Listening events entertain and educate the inhabitants of the city and its visitors. We invite you to visit the City of Kingston’s Deep Listening Plaza, a pocket park honoring Pauline located on Broadway next to UPAC.