Deep Listening: Pauline Oliveros
Tom Service explores deep listening, a practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros to train performers to listen better and respond to environmental conditions.
Tom Service immerses himself in Deep Listening, a practice created by composer Pauline Oliveros. It's a kind of sonic meditation, a way of approaching music with more sensitivity that anyone can practise. In exploring this concept, Tom also explores the music of Oliveros, one of the most influential composers of the late twentieth century. She was a pioneer of electronic music, working with tape machines and early synthesizers in the 1060s in California.
She wrote: "Deep listening for me is learning to expand the perception of sounds to include the whole space/time continuum of sound - encountering the vastness and complexities as much as possible.".
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Oliveros, Dempster, Panaiotis, Eckert
CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants)
- The Ready Made Boomerang.
- New Albion.
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Pauline Oliveros
Bye Bye Butterfly
- OHM+: the early gurus of electronic music.
- Ellipsis Arts.
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Pauline Oliveros
To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation
- (Hope College performance 1970).
- Roaratorio.
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Oliveros, Dempster, Panaiotis, Eckert
Lear
- The Ready Made Boomerang.
- New Albion.
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Oliveros, Dempster, Panaiotis, Eckert
Nike
- The Ready Made Boomerang.
- New Albion.
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Deep Listening Band
Johina (2014)
- free download from Dunrobin Sonic Gym website.
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Pauline Oliveros / Ione
Water Above, Sky Below (part 2)
- Morphine Records.
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Pauline Oliveros and Seth Cluett
Apple Box
- Private recording from Seth Cluett.
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Γliane Radigue
Jetsun Mila
- Lovely Music.
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John Luther Adams
Become Ocean
Performer: Seattle Symphony. Performer: Ludovic Morlot.- Cantaloupe.
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Chris Watson
The Crossroads
- Stepping into the Dark.
- Touch.
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Oliveros, Dempster, Panaiotis, Eckert
Geocentric
- The Ready Made Boomerang.
- New Albion.
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