Pauline Oliveros

(loud offscreen noise interrupts her, long pause)

Ashley: "that means you're telling the truth"

episode five

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finally listening to the new CD reissues of Accordion and Voice and The Wanderer -- happy that other labels are picking up the slack since Lovely doesn't seem as interested in reissuing some of their earlier albums, like Blue Gene Tyranny's Out of the Blue. the reissues are great -- these were her first full length solo albums I think? and notably all acoustic, no electronics at all, though the microtonal tuning on the accordions really give an edge. and the mini-gatefold covers are beautiful, the covers really make the albums

Accordion and Voice keeps things meditative & drony -- this heralds what she'd get up to later once she added real time electronic processing on Roots of the Moment, and sounds like what she brought to the group improv on Deep Listening. The Wanderer has uptempo ensemble works, a 23-strong accordion orchestra playing hopped up 7/8 swingtime minimalism, and there's a bonus track of her playing accordion with david tudor playing bandoneon -- also no electronics, and very pointilist / atonal, not droning, a few noisy outbursts. if you want to hear them improvise using electronics, there's the 17 minute noisy feedback sprawl "Applebox Double" from 1965 where she and Tudor rub and strike amplified wooden appleboxes with various household objects, it's on the ONCE Festival box set -- http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=80567.

lots of new Oliveros CDs out, there's evidently a 30 minute bonus track on her reissue of Primordial Lift from the same sessions

& thanks to dleone for spotting the discs, man does a terrifying version of toto's "africa" I forget almost everything from kevy b's kareoke party after the cuervo was opened

If you haven't heard it yet, you should chase down the fairly recent HAT reissue of Roots of the Moment, too. A really fine record, perhaps the best of her with accordian.

New World is also reissuing the David Behrman produced Columbia LPs of early Cage and Feldman piano this month/next month. Super psyched about that. I feel bad for those who threw down the $43 dollars for just the Cage 2CD Sony-Japan edition after seeing it on the recent FE update when both sets are going to be available together for about $30/$35

is the HAT reissue different from the original HAT CD of Roots (besides adding track marks?)

yes! http://www.newworldrecords.org/album.cgi?rm=view&album_id=81273

I love New World, I recently heard a tape of that 1959 Feldman album and it's kind of ground zero

Actually, I wouldn't know if the Hat reissue is different. I only said that because it's what's available. I've got the original and I like it just fine, maybe better because I prefer the artwork on the old edition.

Is "ground zero" a good thing? Blue Gene does liners for the Cage/Feldman reissue.

I prefer the original packaging too

'ground zero' = the Feldman most people heard first. Feldman's 'Piece for Four Pianos' (where four pianists play the same score but choose their own tempo, staggering out the chords) is huge for me, and when I realized it was first released in 1959 it seemed like a missing piece of history because the way the piece sounds takes a certain precedent over the later Riley / Reich / Oliveros / Eno pieces that explore phasing & overlapping motives using tape loops. Riley's 'Music For The Gift' and Eno's 'Music for Airports' in particular are very much following up on 'Piece for Four Pianos'. so it's great to see that coming back into print.

aw

http://www.analogartsensemble.net/blog/oliveros_young.jpg

http://www.analogartsensemble.net/2007/07/pauline-oliveros-i-of-iv.html

:)

Ha what a great picture! I've actually been listening to her a lot lately, actually this piece and the Primordial Lift stuff. It's awesome! I'm eager to hear more of her work.

I missed a free deep listening workshop the other month cos I went to sleep. I am a fucking dope.

Her turntablism

I got Accordion Koto with Miya Masaoka while I was in SF...so good.

the new Sub Rosa compilation Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966 is fantastic, especially the first two pieces. they are living beasts and ten mazes ahead.

I thought we'd heard the best of her 60's electronic music by now, but I was wrong, this one is just as sharp as Electronic Works. Alien Bog / Beautiful Soop, No Mo, & A Little Noise In The System are the other three releases of her 60's improvisations, unique and wonderful but in enough of a similar mode that I don't play them as often (though when I'm in the mood, 'A Little Noise In The System' is really enjoyably uncompromising & relentless, it's flat out noise but it's more about curiosity than a display of power)

But this new one! 'Mnemonics III' is basically an extra 18 minutes of the setup she used for 'Bye Bye Butterfly', but instead of the plunderphonic sample detour, the oscillators just keep stretching

a friend of mine is putting out a new record by her, please support his great label

http://roaratorio.com/

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g273/Roaratorio/roar211.jpg

bump

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.

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.

:-(

RIP :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJrJ4pNqDNc

RIP, she made some seriously powerful music.

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

not to diss Pauline but these are not her ideas, they are pretty fundamental tenets of group improvisation

RIP

https://frieze.com/article/pauline-oliveros-1932-2016

Pleasant piece.

Interesting radio programme on BBC Radio 4 tonight which was about 50% interviews with Pauline Oliveros - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b083n4sc

reissue alert (or first vinyl issue alert I guess): https://importantrecords.com/products/oliveros-dempster-panaiotis-deep-listening-band-2lp

I just discovered this album recently and found it completely absorbing.

yes, i love that one.

i nearly bought that today but the shippimng just made it too much. Hopefully copies will make it over here shortly.

That record is all time

And mortality sucks :(

xps that's my favorite release of hers by quite a ways, absolutely essential

I can't get enough of this at the moment (along with Radigue). The Deep Listening album is just stupendous and from there I'm tending to go straight to Stuart Dempster's solo stuff: In the Great Abbey of St. Clement and Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel. It's answering a need I can't quite define.