Pauline Oliveros

i am super broke right now but wld v much like to buy that record, at some point, in the near future

title is so great

Oh noes, vinyl only?

i think his records come with download code

i like roaratorio! i will stock this album.

:)

yeah great label and just a fantastically nice dude too

ian i would highly recommend "rag" by george cartwright and davu seru, great local mpls free jazz rec he put out

fans of drone-y accordion compositions should peep this album by bosnian composer merima kljuco - this track is really unsettling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHCsmDxAAG0

I bought that Roaratorio release, I like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaFeLQyVxY

Disc 1:
Pauline Oliveros Home Electronic Music Studio 1961
Time Perspectives

Disc 2:
San Francisco Tape Music Center 1964-1966
Mnemonics I
Mnemonics II
Mnemonics III

Disc 3:
San Francisco Tape Music Center 1964-1966
Mnemonics IV
Mnemonics V

Disc 4:
University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 1966
II Of IV
III Of IV
IV Of IV
V Of IV
III

Disc 5:
University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 1966
Team & Desecrations Improvisation
The Day I Disconnected The Erase Head And Forgot To Reconnect It
Jar Piece

Disc 6:
University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 1966
Another Big Mother
Fed Back 1
Fed Back 2

Disc 7
University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 1966
5000 Miles
Angel Fix

Disc 8:
University Of Toronto Electronic Music Studio 1966
Bottoms Up 1
Nite
Ringing The Mods 1 Heads
Ringing The Mods 2 Tails
Three Pieces I
Three Pieces II
Three Pieces III

Disc 9
Mills Tape Music Center 1966-1967
Big Slow Bog
Boone Bog

Disc 10
Mills Tape Music Center 1966-1967
Bog Bog
Mind Bog

Disc 11
Mills Tape Music Center 1966-1967
Mewsack

University Of California San Diego Electronic Music Studio 1967-1970
50-50 1 Heads
50=50 2 Tails

Disc 12
University Of California San Diego Electronic Music Studio 1967-1970
A Little Noise In The System
Red Horse Headache

sheesh

awes

Wanna box that set.

holy fucking shit.

Only semi-related, anyone heard that whole C.C. Hennix album the same label put out? Sample sounds good.

Damn

"A most important discovery and major influence on my work came in 1958. This discovery came with the aid of technology; I simply put a microphone in my window and recorded the sound environment until the tape ran off the reel. When I replayed the tape, I realized that although I had been listening carefully while I recorded, I had not heard all of the sounds on the tape."
The microphone did not selectively "listen" to sounds as she did, but rather documented the entire sonic environment. From that day on Oliveros decided to work toward refining and expanding her awareness of what she termed the total "sound field".

from the box's David Bernstein essay

yeah this box

I think the thing that really hits me most about it is how it's not only vintage, but all recorded in real time. Back in the 60's electronic music was still not really being conceived of by anyone, let alone 95% of its practitioners, as a medium for live performance. Audiences had no idea of how the sounds were realized, they just emerged intact on the tapes, and even the composers who you could imagine spending hours rocking out with an oscillator & reel to reel tape delay were hesitant to 'compose' any such pieces for performance, in the age of serialism everyone had to have everything meticulously scored out in advance.

So a 12CD box of pure uninterrupted live takes is kind of a revelation -- a couple of these pieces are perhaps a little tentative and there's a little bit of feeling around but the level of quality is so unbelievably high that these all do go down as early proof-of-concepts for electronic music as a live performance discipline.

Retail price is much much much higher than when you order it direct, but... still worth it

& yes as Owen said the 2 CDs worth of extra 'Bog' pieces from the Mills Tape Music Center, where she wires up the Buchla to engage in Frog & Insect concertos with the wildlife singing loudly in the pond outside the studio... those are particularly amazing (I think they're even deeper than Beautiful Soop/Alien Bog), but discs 2-4 with the early Mnemonics and all the alternate takes of the X of IV series are the ones I've been playing the most

Only semi-related, anyone heard that whole C.C. Hennix album the same label put out? Sample sounds good.

― nobody gives a shit about the githzerai (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:17 AM

'electric harpsichord'? its one 25min piece, on the ominous discordant side of drone

Haven't cracked the Hennix just yet, only heard about her a couple weeks ago (?!)

ubu web has a 3hr long dutch radio broadcast of c.c. hennix that is def worth grabbing (when their servers get back up)

talked about here - Catherine Christer Hennix

That Hennix is wonderful

n e one ever attended pauline's "college"

http://deeplistening.org/site/content/certificate-program

an ex of mine did, she loved it. I don't remember much of her descriptions other than lying on the floor with her eyes closed listening to various things Oliveros would play them.

i took part in a full day programme with her when she was in glasgow a few years back. it involved waking up the body, learning how to walk slowly, learning how to sing slowly, walking and singing slowly (simultaneously) and, to be honest, it was.... really really beautiful. an amazing experience and she's an inspirational woman.

Only semi-related, anyone heard that whole C.C. Hennix album the same label put out? Sample sounds good.

― nobody gives a shit about the githzerai (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:17 AM

I think he's asking about the new one, Chora(s)san Time-court Mirage: http://importantrecords.com/imprec/imprec354

I like it a lot; a long single piece very much in the vein of La Monte Young's "Map of 49's Dream", sharing the same sine wave major chord drone + sustained brass chords + alap vocal singing over the top. It's got slightly more forward motion than the Young piece. Doesn't come on as instantly as "49's Dream" or "Harpsichord" but if you like those two you definitely want this

o sweet, i want to hear that

here's the 3 hr radio thing - http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/hennix_cc/Hennix-CC_Dutch-National-Radio_2005.mp3

some pauline stuff there too - http://www.ubu.com/sound/oliveros.html

heads up bay area: http://musicnow.mills.edu/concert3.php

yeah! i will be there.

http://www.citypages.com/2012-12-26/arts/2012-artists-of-the-year/

See page 7.

http://monoskop.org/log/?p=6568

12 cd box set of "early and unreleased electronic work" anyone?

http://boomkat.com/cds/1046954-pauline-oliveros-reverberations-tape-electronic-music-1961-1970-reissue

(oh, was out in 2012, now repressed along with a couple of others - The Wanderer, Accordion and Voice)

She posts my favorite kitten and bunny videos on Facebook.

deep kittening

kitten cistern

hearing reports that Pauline Oliveros died on Thanksgiving :(

RIP Pauline ;_;

So happy I got to see her perform last year.

I did a deep listening workshop with her and then saw her perform around a decade ago. She was an amazing unique beauty. RIP.

she casually gave me incredible advice at key points in my development; knowledge just kind of came up out of her.

and she was more lucid and healthy looking every year I saw her, this just seems impossible & I wouldn't believe this news… if it weren't 2016

love

aw no. i've been following her on Facebook for a good while now and she has always been a treat. love her music and love her attentiveness to sound. RIP Pauline

yeah when she got into Second Life, her online presence really became a particularly surreal treat

https://monoskop.org/images/2/29/Oliveros_Pauline_Software_for_People_Collected_Writings_1963-80.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QHfOuRrJB8

:( RIP

hero

Ah jeez, RIP.

Her workshop and performance at Big Ears #1 were so important to me -- really changed my head, my perception of music, my perception of perception.

Oh, 2016. I can't even start to process this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMCTxkFwLHw

Saw her at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2008 - everyone sitting on the floor, tranquil beauty straight to the skull. RIP.

video for tonight = pauline's interview / increasingly invasive beauty makeover from robert ashley's 'music with roots in the aether'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuDG1ijMPiw&list=PLNOvB4KfnCVvYM1wHIKac_VOr6m371xA7&index=5

Listening to I of IV now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLSFRmmTTjo

I've been thinking today about her ideas and techniques and how they relate to feminism and traditional gender socialization. Namely, the idea that as a musician you should listen to the other musicians, or as a performer that you should be attentive to the audience.