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And now for something completely different

#PaulineOliveros

#music #accordion #experimental #drone

@adrianco Pauline probably would have said that listening drives itself.

Deep Listening is an act of mindfulness. When I focus intently on listening to everything around me, it makes me feel like I am constantly breathing inward through my ears, and my mind cannot interrupt. I am not so concerned with taste, but how my own sounding mixes through the entire sonic experience.

https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu/deep-listening/

"Deep Listening, as developed by Pauline Oliveros, explores the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the conscious nature of listening."

#DeepListening #paulineoliveros #improvisation

Starting to construct our 24 hour 20th Anniversary Celebration of @accordionnoir radio

To air December 2nd on #Vancouver's #CoopRadio

Reconstructed and fixed typos we made on this playlist from the 2007-06-01 #PaulineOliveros episode ❤️‍🔥🪗

Not sure I'll touch up every playlist as I go along, but here's one to see what was going on during our late-night shifts back in the early years of our show
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2017/05/29/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2007-06-01-pauline-oliveros-birthday/
#accordion #ExperimentalMusic

@thetonearm
Nice to see #PaulineOliveros included in this list of Essential #Ambient recordings

With the insight that her 1989 #DeepListening “feels like a rebuke to Eno’s ‘must be as ignorable as it is interesting’ proposition a decade earlier”
https://www.discogs.com/digs/music/essential-ambient-albums/
#accordion #drone 🪗 𝄐

Pauline Oliveros, USA 1932-2016. Compositrice, accordéoniste, expérimentatrice. Elle a explosé les frontières qui définissaient l'usage de l'accordéon, en l'associant notamment avec l'utilisation des bandes magnétiques, de l'électronique...et la manière d'écouter. Elle parle de 'deep listening'.
Un exemple ici avec 'Tara's room', méditatif, drones influencés par le bouddhisme.

https://archive.org/details/cd_taras-room_pauline-oliveros

#paulineoliveros #deeplistening #archive.org #meditation #drone #accordion

Mes écoutes de la semaine du 04 May 2026

#ActressAndSuzanneCiani, #BardoPond, #BenniHemmHemm, #DogbowlEt, #AndPeterParker, #LilianeDonskoy, #ÈlgEtLaChimie, #ThFaithHealers, #Gong, #Inrain, #LucrateMilk, #RadwanGhaziMoumneh, #FrédéricDOberland, #StephenOMalley, #PaulineOliveros #JonasBraasch #DougVanNort, #PaulineOliveros #MiyaMasaoka #IssuiMinegishi, #ParisBanlieue, #SãoPauloUnderground, #CatStevens, #TheThirdEyeFoundation, #ToutBleu, #UnKommuniti, #DanielVillarreal, #Wired

#music #record

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis: 🎵 The Lear #6music #PaulineOliveros #StuartDempster #Panaiotis ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

Read about this looong 1976 interview in Martha Mockus’s book Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality

Very glad to find it here 🥰 🪗

Oliveros slowly transformed into fem #drag while being interviewed about the early days of #ElectronicMusic
#PaulineOliveros #accordion #PerformanceArt #LGBTQ

@avantmusicnews.com @AccordionBruce
I wanna tag these #PaulineOliveros #ExperimentalMusic #Drone #accordion records for anyone looking

We hope to play them on our @accordionnoir radio show once we get copies

Perhaps on another of our 3 hour drone accordion specials like this
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2024-10-30-electronic-experimental-drone-show-iv-night-of-the-restless/

@uxMark @accordionnoir
Posting this got me to at least email that record company to beg for promos of their two new #PaulineOliveros recordings

We’ve played many of her works over the last twenty years including this show that includes one from her accordion teacher Bill Palmer’s ensemble

Of Palmer & Hughes 🪗 📖 fame!

Palmer comes up in my #AccordionRevolution book

The old guard weren’t very interested in his urging them to take rock and roll seriously
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2016-11-30-pauline-oliveros-tribute-with-soundscape-radio/

If anybody ever wants to get me a #PaulineOliveros shirt I would wear it a lot 🪗 𝄐

https://importantrecords.com/products/pauline-oliveros-accordion-voice-t-shirt

My birthday is June 12th...

Also @accordionnoir has $10,000 of music on its #AccordionBandcamp wishlist

So we need either a big gift-card or an intern to email all those bands asking them to send us music
#accordion #ExperimentalMusic #drone

@arendleejessurun
Examples?
I think of Eno’s records as ur-text #ambient album covers

With the abstract and simple text, or the clean box

As an alternative I always thought my friend @thirdpearl’s bent light photos (with no photoshop) would work great for covers and was very happy one got picked for a #PaulineOliveros reissue

She could have done a whole series of ambient CDs back in the 90s I’m sure

Preparing for an interview question about risky projects, and reading this article I wrote a few summers ago after leading SRECon in one of Pauline's Deep Listening pieces:

https://www.learningfromincidents.io/posts/making-music-with-others

#SRE #SRECon #DeepListening #PaulineOliveros #JointActivity

“The female composer #PaulineOliveros, Alker argues persuasively, was a still under-acknowledged influence on #Cage and his milieu at that time.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... #music #books #MusicSky #BooksSky

Everything We Do Is Music by E...

“The female composer #PaulineOliveros, Alker argues persuasively, was a still under-acknowledged influence on #Cage and his milieu at that time.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... #music #books #MusicSky #BooksSky

Everything We Do Is Music by E...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis: 🎵 Lear (excerpt) #6music #PaulineOliveros #StuartDempster #Panaiotis ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify

https://www.deeplistening.rpi.edu

#DeepListening #PaulineOliveros

Pauline Oliveros, IONE, Christopher Willes, Public Recordings and others – Resonance Gathering
#DeepListening #Electronic #Experimental #Ione #PaulineOliveros #SpokenWord #Toronto #composition #drone #experimental #performance #sitespecific #soundart #Canada
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://christopherwilles.bandcamp.com/album/resonance-gathering

@michaelrperry
Having Pauline’s electronic #accordion join in the performance after her death might be something she’d have written into the score 🪗🥲

#PaulineOliveros #ElectronicMusic #ExperimentalMusic

@michaelrperry
That sounds marvellous! Never heard of that opera. Hope you get to go

Her career was so long I keep hearing about pieces and whole eras I was unaware of

This book about her years in San Diego totally surprised me (I was there in jr high school and it might have changed my life’s direction if I’d known)

Alien Territory: Experimental, Radical & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego, by Bill Perrine
https://billingsgate.bigcartel.com/product/book-alien-territory-radical-experimental-irrelevant-music-in-1970s-san-diego-by-bill-perrine

🪗🎛️🎶
#accordion #ExperimentalMusic #PaulineOliveros

Pauline dares us to embrace change, the unfamiliar and even the unknown. She wants us to be bold enough to imagine a benevolent society that can embrace technology to create a sublime music.

'Yes,' she writes, 'Deep Listening is a foundation for a radically transformed social matrix in which compassion and love are the core motivating principles guiding creative decision making and our actions in the world.'

#oliveros #PaulineOliveros

"The quality and flexibility of listening skills is the foundation of musicianship. The essence of musicianship is the ability to discern the smallest change in pitch or tempo, and relate that discernment to a field of ongoing sound or musical relationships."

Pauline Oliveros - Quantum Listening

#oliveros #PaulineOliveros

ArtBBQ Studio Playlist 2024 #39: Ellen Rodenberg
https://artbbq.nl/2024-39-ellen-rodenberg/
Artists share their favorite music with each other.
Find new music and see if it resonates with the creative output.

2024 photo-challenge: take a photo of your shadow.

#studioplaylist #yearendlist #artbbq
#PaulineOliveros #StuartDempster #Panaiotis #JoseTome #WilliamZVillain #CannonballAdderley
#ellenrodenberg

Pauline Oliveros - "The Wanderer" (1983)

First spin of 2025 🎆🎉

#NowPlaying #PaulineOliveros #VinylRecords #vinyl @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/nwtJ_yZYPzE?si=0Fbb9s7HXJ9-tvJy

#NowPlaying “Cathedral” (1971) is an experimental short by #RonaldChase with soundtrack from #PaulineOliveros, exploring feeling affection by juxtaposing sensuality and spirituality. https://vimeo.com/351935302

I don’t think I’ve had that few things on my #library card in 30 years

So I went and stocked up with a backpack-full 🎒🔝

Found the Illustrated #WeirdAl! 🎨

Chuck D’s #HipHop #comic about #GunControl 🔫🚫

A history of #ExperimentalMusic in #SanDiego in the 70s with #PaulineOliveros’s #accordion 🪗

A #Hawkwind tome 🦅

And one about the oldest #FolkMusic in Europe with the lovely title, Lament from Empirus 🥰

Feeling better now 📚

Great documentary about early electronic female pioneers. Really a must see ... With #ClaraRockmore, #DaphneOram, #BebeBarron, #PaulineOliveros, #DeliaDerbyshire, #MaryanneAmacher, #ElianeRadigue, #SuzanneCiani, #LaurieSpiegel. Narrated by #LaurieAnderson. Written and directed by #LisaRovner
Sisters with Transistors [Official Trailer]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7r-3hlzpV7M

@accordionnoir @vac

Could have easily thrown on some #PaulineOliveros and other #accordion artists using the instrument’s acoustic #drone abilities

(Granted, not as unlimited as its free reed relatives the harmonium / reed organs with their extra air reservoir)

Wish I’d have remembered 🥱

Still time to jump out to #InternationalDroneDay workshops and events this weekend! 🦥 🪗

Locally in #NewWest
𝄐
🎚️ Evening Stage
https://droneday.boats/

🎛️ Daytime workshops
https://newmediagallery.ca/drone-day-2024/

I think like this always.. is point 1 why I sometimes avoid interaction... It's very tiring.

#PaulineOliveros

Pauline Oliveros - "Accordion & Voice" (1982)

#NowPlaying #PaulineOliveros #DeepListening #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/accordion-voice

Hmm... 🤯

Feelings are not emotions..

#paulineoliveros #deeplistening

The #OtherMinds archive containing interviews, rare photographs and documents, and recordings of music by #GeorgeAntheil, #HenryCowell, #LaurieAnderson, #ConlonNancarrow, #MortonFeldman, #AnthonyBraxton, #PaulineOliveros, #FrankZappa, and many more is now live with free online public access. https://archives.otherminds.org/

I was sitting here on January 2 thinking I really haven't reviewed anything I've done lately. Not musically anyway. And I should, it's good to re-listen to things sometimes.

So I decided to whip up an album. I've had this idea for a while, I just finally got the itch and free time (jobless, natch) to put something together.

If you follow me on YT and watch or listen to my improv there, you'll be familiar with the material. In fact, you may have helped choose it! These 13 tracks are from the past two years of doing weekly sonic meditations. Unedited and strung together into an album just shy of 400 minutes of ambient music.

#craque #improvisation #ElectroAcoustic #ExperimentalMusic #idm #ambient #drone #PTSD #migraine #mindfulness #meditation #SonicMeditation #PaulineOliveros #DeepListening

https://craque.bandcamp.com/album/body-listen-ambient

New to you! My master's thesis from 1998 at UMCP School of Music!

I juxtapose the nature of improvisation in two avant-garde vocal composers: John Cage and Pauline Oliveros. I called it "Everybody has a song".

Only the nerdy musicologists will probably click through, but at the very least you can check out the new site design. :)

#JohnCage #PaulineOliveros #improvisation #VocalMusic #ExperimentalMusic

https://www.sounding.com/song98/