I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton. Pauline Oliveros More Quotes by Pauline Oliveros More Quotes From Pauline Oliveros Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening Pauline Oliveros hearinglistening Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears Pauline Oliveros walksearsfeet Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening. Pauline Oliveros listening Deep Listening is listening to everything all the time, and reminding yourself when you're not. But going below the surface too, it's an active process. It's not passive. I mean hearing is passive in that soundwaves hinge upon the eardrum. You can do both. You can focus and be receptive to your surroundings. If you're tuned out, then you're not in contact with your surroundings. You have to process what you hear. Hearing and listening are not the same thing. Pauline Oliveros musicfocusmean I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones. Pauline Oliveros patternsconsciousnessmean Deep Listening is 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, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening Pauline Oliveros musicalmatterlistening 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 Presence. If you're really listening, then some of the barriers can dissolve or change. Pauline Oliveros listeningpeoplethinking Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions. Pauline Oliveros actingdecisionlistening Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds. Pauline Oliveros silencesoundlistening Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry. Pauline Oliveros tryingbeautifulreality When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize. Pauline Oliveros soundwantway We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all. Pauline Oliveros spaceoppositesthinking I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players. Pauline Oliveros spaceplayerthinking Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music. Pauline Oliveros way I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person. Pauline Oliveros informationstudentstrying I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make. Pauline Oliveros mirrorsreflectiontwo Before that, an 8-bit recording was pixelated; it was really bad. It didn't serve what I was doing, which was recording live sound and delaying it and feeding it back. This is essentially what the EIS system is: a bunch of delays. Pauline Oliveros delayfeedingsound 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 and so you get an echo, right? If you change the amplitude of, say, the playback and play with that, you get different qualities and different sounds. So I was very interested in that phenomenon. Pauline Oliveros echoesdistanceplay [Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it. Pauline Oliveros improvisation You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me. Pauline Oliveros filtersstereotyperunning
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