I think the worst thing is stereotyping. Pauline Oliveros More Quotes by Pauline Oliveros More Quotes From Pauline Oliveros The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now. Pauline Oliveros intelligentsoundplay I'm currently very impressed with the level of understanding and of interest in listening that I experience wherever I go. That motivates me to dig deeper into what I've been doing all of this time, to find new ways and also to get over the thought that it's not happening. Pauline Oliveros understandinglisteningway In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the body has been loosened up and warmed up and is ready. We do the listening. After that, there's the journaling of the experience, which they do each time throughout the semester to the point that I have them write a final paper on what they've experienced. Pauline Oliveros exercisewritingclass [My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught. Pauline Oliveros taughtmusic-ismother When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there. Pauline Oliveros san-franciscocouplepast 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 started. And I had a tape recorder and started making things with it. Pauline Oliveros tapecommunityeurope I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this. Pauline Oliveros awarenessunderstandingattention I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders. Pauline Oliveros bouldersmeditationtree [Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say. Pauline Oliveros ensemblemeditationstudents Deep Listening Institute is dissolving and is now the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The legacy of the twenty or thirty years that we've been operating is now transferred to RPI. Pauline Oliveros twentieslisteningyears It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening. Pauline Oliveros listeningtwoyears The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion]. Pauline Oliveros pianodifferentsound The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on. Pauline Oliveros practicelisteningpeople My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it. Pauline Oliveros motherplayhome My mother brought home the accordion in 1942. I was fascinated and wanted to learn to play it. Some of my music has a relationship to dance styles - The Well and the Gentle or The Wanderer for example. Pauline Oliveros motherplayhome I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music. Pauline Oliveros differentcountrythinking It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points. Pauline Oliveros differentfunmight I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go. Pauline Oliveros schedulestrying My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come. Pauline Oliveros processfoundwriting
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