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• I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Reflection, Mirrors, Two

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I noticed you could monitor the recording that you're making, but you could also monitor the playback head. There's a little distance between them and so you get an echo, right? If you change the amplitude of, say, the playback and play with that, you get different qualities and different sounds. So I was very interested in that phenomenon.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Distance, Echoes, Play

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• I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Understanding, Attention, Awareness

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• I'm currently very impressed with the level of understanding and of interest in listening that I experience wherever I go. That motivates me to dig deeper into what I've been doing all of this time, to find new ways and also to get over the thought that it's not happening.

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  Understanding, Listening, Way

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• In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it started. And I had a tape recorder and started making things with it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Europe, Community, Tape

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Two, San Francisco, Track

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the body has been loosened up and warmed up and is ready. We do the listening. After that, there's the journaling of the experience, which they do each time throughout the semester to the point that I have them write a final paper on what they've experienced.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Writing, Exercise, Class

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• I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Long, Listening, Mind

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• It might be fun to have audience members wander up the ramps as well, so they can listen from different vantage points.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Fun, Different, Might

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• Something that I did, and I developed out of that sonic meditations, which were pieces that I composed in the '70s that now are very well-known and used in many classrooms all over the world, but at the time were outrageous.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Meditation, Pieces, World

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• It was around the end of the '60s, when I began to compose sonic meditations. Before that I was doing a lot of reflecting on myself, and listening to long tones.

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  Long, Meditation, Listening

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• [My interest in music] is from my mother and my grandmother, who were pianists, and they taught.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Mother, Taught, Music Is

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• That change happened about 1991. It was not possible to transfer the Expanded Instrument System to the computer until then, when 16-bit recording became available.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Computer, Instruments, Transfers

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• A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Keyboards, Instruments, Mice

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• We have a very large constituency in the world from all of the years that we've done workshops, retreats, and talks. I would say there a few thousand people out there that have some relationship to what we do.

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  Years, People, Retreat

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• The students were missing out a lot in their ensemble playing because they weren't listening to each other or the environment.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Missing, Listening, Ensemble

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• I heard a lot of different kinds of music. I heard country music, I heard jazz, I heard symphonic music, opera, everything you can think of except very modern music.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Country, Thinking, Different

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• I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Night, Used, Studios

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• [Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Improvisation

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• Before that, an 8-bit recording was pixelated; it was really bad. It didn't serve what I was doing, which was recording live sound and delaying it and feeding it back. This is essentially what the EIS system is: a bunch of delays.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Sound, Delay, Feeding

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• First of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So I'd stay there all night and leave in the morning, observe the sun rise and have a lot of different kinds of sounds in my mind. But it was a quest, it was a search. It was research, it was learning.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Morning, Night, Class

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Writing, Process, Found

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Trying, Schedules

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• That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.

  Pauline Oliveros

  People, Disability, States

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• It's going to take about a year or two for the transfer to be completed. We have a certification program so professionals can teach deep listening.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Years, Two, Listening

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