A Little Noise in the System: The Music of Pauline Oliveros

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Mon, 12/05/2016 - 8:00pm to 10:00pm
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We note the passing of Pauline Oliveros, one of the first and finest electronic and acoustic composers.  In the 1960s and 70s Oliveros created dozens of elaborate computer and tape mixes, often adding acoustic sounds with birds and frogs.  She also composed and performed on the accordion and created many pieces for solo accordion, prepared microtonal accordion and twenty-piece accordion orchestras.  In later years she developed the theory of “Deep Listening,” in which performers and audience members would be asked to continuously listen to and respond to minute changes in pitch, timbre, or delay. She and other musicians would perform in underground cisterns, caverns, and cathedrals to catch long wave echo effects.

 

Tonight’s program will feature early tape pieces, an ear-splitting moog synthesizer “multi-mix,” and some 1980s accordion music, including a “King Lear” soundtrack.  KBOO will be presenting a series of specials looking at different periods of her career. Stay tuned in December and 2017 for lots more music from other periods of Pauline Oliveros’s life.

 

Bonus!  Pauline jams with Roscoe Mitchell and Wadada Leo Smith.  Crushing riddims.

Episode Playlist

  • Time
    8:03
    Artist
    Alvin Lucier & The Brandeis University Chamber Chorus
    Song
    Sound Patterns
    Album
    Extended Voices
    Label
    Sony Classical
  • Time
    8:09
    Artist
    Pauline Oliveros
    Song
    The Well
    Album
    The Well and the Gentle
    Label
    hat ART records
  • Time
    8:32
    Artist
    Pauline Oliveros
    Song
    Electronic Birds
    Album
    Electronic Birds
    Label
  • Time
    8:35
    Artist
    Pauline Oliveros
    Song
    Lullaby for Daisy
    Album
    Lullaby for Daisy
    Label
  • Time
    8:43
    Artist
    Pauline Oliveros
    Song
    Jazz piece with Roscoe Mitchell
    Album
    Jazz piece with Roscoe Mitchell
    Label
  • Time
    8:58
    Artist
    Pauline Oliveros
    Song
    A Little Noise in the System
    Album
    Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970
    Label
    Important Records
  • Time
    9:30
    Artist
    Pauline Oliveros
    Song
    Four Meditations 1.
    Album
    Four Meditations 1.
    Label
  • Time
    9:40
    Artist
    Pauline Oliveros
    Song
    Lion's Tale
    Album
    Lion's Eye / Lion's Tale
    Label
    Deep Listening
  • Time
    9:56
    Artist
    Pauline Oliveros
    Song
    The Fool's Circle
    Album
    Crone Music
    Label
    Lovely Music

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