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Pauline Oliveros

American composer and musician

Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer and accordionist.

Considered a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music, she was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the early 1960s, and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros authored books, formulated new music theories, and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "deep listening" and "sonic awareness", drawing on metaphors from cybernetics. She was an Eyebeam resident.

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Works

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  • A Trilling Piece for Terry
  • Applebox Double
  • Bog Bog
  • Bye Bye Butterfly
  • Drifting Depths
  • Duo for Accordion & Bandoneon
  • Duo for Accordion and Bandoneon with Possible Mynah Bird Obbligato
  • Great Haul
  • Great Horned Howl
  • Growl Howl
  • Horse Sings From Cloud
  • I of IV
  • In Memoriam, Mr. Whitney
  • In Memoriam: Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer
  • Lion's Eye
  • Lion's Tale
  • Minutes After Frogs
  • Outline
  • Poem of Change
  • Portrait
  • Quintuplets Play Pen: Homage to Ruth Crawford
  • Six for New Time
  • Sound Patterns
  • St. George and the Dragon
  • The Tuning Meditation
  • The Wanderer
  • Thirteen Changes
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 1. Songs of Ancient Mothers Among Awesome Rocks
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 10. Standing Naked in the Moonlight - Music Washing the Body
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 11. Atomic Imagery - Rotating Molecules - Instantaneous Particle Dancing-vanishing
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 12. Elephants Mating in a Secret Grove
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 13. Directionless Motion - Unquiet Stilness - A Moment Alone With Millions of People - Calming the Waters - The Aura of a Black Bird
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 2. A Singing Bowl of Steaming Soup
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 3. Tiny Mites Circling One Hair in the Coat of a Polar Bear
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 4. Rollicking Monkeys Landing on Mars
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 5. A Sip of Midnight Well Water
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 6. A Solitary Warm on an Empty Coffin
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 7. Solar Winds Scorching the Returning Comet's Tail
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 8. A Single Egg Motionless in the Desert
  • Thirteen Changes: No. 9. Air Borne Carriers of Transparent Seedlings
  • Time Perspectives
  • Time Piece
  • To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation
  • Town Haul
  • V of IV
  • Waking the Intonarumori