Pauline Oliveros

Nacimiento : 1932-05-30,

Historia

Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an American composer and accordionist who is a central figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She has taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros has written books, formulated new music theories and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "Deep Listening" and "sonic awareness".

Películas

I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead
I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead
Music
Reframing our current political moment in intimate terms, Gibson’s urgent snapshot of worldwide social calamities doubles as a document of practical resistance. In Gibson’s hands, the music of Pauline Oliveros and the words of poets CA Conrad and Eileen Myles imbue images of street riots, the Grenfell Fire, and the mass refugee migration with complexity and grace.
Fogo
Fogo
Music
Un fenómeno desconocido amenaza la vida de la comunidad rural de Fogo, ubicada en una pequeña isla en la región de Newfoundland, Canadá. Ya ha sido abandonado casi por completo. A pesar de que las posibilidades de sobrevivir ahí son escasas, algunos residentes se aferran al lugar.
On the Other Ocean
On the Other Ocean
Original Music Composer
You there. It's late. Imagine yourself with the lid coming down. The hymns and requiems. The sense of movement as you're borne along to the next place.
skin•es•the•si•a
skin•es•the•si•a
Music
How does a woman’s body move? skin•es•the•si•a scrambles the cultural codes of female movement by juxtaposing images from the work of performance artist Hannah Sim with images of Sim working as a nude dancer in a peep show. It explores the rapport between one woman’s body and two performance environments. How are women perceived and typed through our own physical movements? What might a response of power to these codes and norms look like? What do we discover by embracing our otherness, by transforming it into a means of confronting the world?
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
Herself
The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk and Pauline Oliveros are all pioneers in American music, each composer pursues a distinct direction of her own. Their rehearsals and performances show a common pursuit of lyrical storytelling through which a new set of contemporary narratives has been forged. Through body, sound, movement and composition, these women have forged their own path through the wild world of modern music.
Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
Himself
Opera televisiva organizada por Robert Ashley. Un proyecto extenso (su duración total llega a las 14 horas) que mezcla testimonios de compositores americanos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX con interpretaciones de su propia música; David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley y el propio Robert Ashley aparecen en este híbrido televisivo.
Clown
Clown
Music
A woman remembers the moments with her lover and believes she's made herself ridiculous. She's become a clown.
Contacts
Contacts
Music
Super obscure experimental short film. Very raw and primitive, it features a great soundtrack made of amazing psychedelic abstract electronic music (the song is “I Of IV” by electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros), which is probably what makes this short some kind of mesmerizing experience
Lightning Waterfall Fern Soup
Lightning Waterfall Fern Soup
Music
Short experimental film by Shelby Kennedy
The Covenant
The Covenant
Music
Dance film of work by choreographer Elizabeth Harris with original score by Pauline Oliveros. The score is for prepared piano and was performed live during the filming. Harris was a frequent collaborator with Oliveros at the Tape Music Center in San Francisco.