Comments on: Deep Listening

Deep Listening

serazin — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:35:13 -0800

Pauline Oliveros, pioneer of electronic and new music, and Deep Listening. Inspired by Valerie Solanas, utilizes just intonation, plays accordion. Hear her . Watch her .

By: gcbv

gcbv — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:55:06 -0800

yes and yes.

By: fleetmouse

fleetmouse — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:07:41 -0800

We've been having lots of great electronic and electroacoustic type posts lately and I want to say, this is fantastic, oh, this is lovely. I downloaded Oliveros' Alien Bog a while ago from Emusic and enjoyed it but this gives it more context.

By: LooseFilter

LooseFilter — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:09:11 -0800

Awesome post. I've been listening to Outline for about 12 minutes now, and I feel like I've been listening to a musical conversation more than composed music. Her music appeals to me in much the same way that Takemitsu's does--they both have uniquely different approaches to organizing sound, with such different intent from the mainstreams of their art forms.

By: grobstein

grobstein — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:10:33 -0800

On the one hand, this sounds pretty cool. On the other hand, Valerie Solanas? What's up with that? I'm curious about the connection, because the music by itself wasn't tripping my instinctual fear of being cut up.

By: kuujjuarapik

kuujjuarapik — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:10:54 -0800

I read it, and listened, but I'm left wondering how she was inspired by Valerie Solanas.

By: serazin

serazin — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 17:37:00 -0800

She has a composition called To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation. She says the SCUM manifisto inspired her. This interview briefly mentions why.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:18:29 -0800

I love Oliveros' music but the Solanas connection really puts me off.

By: LeLiLo

LeLiLo — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:58:45 -0800

I was not really familiar with her work until early December, when she and I both ended up at the first International Society of Improvised Music conference at the University of Michigan. (She was a featured performer; I was there with a bunch of misfit musicians from rural Maine.) After her opening night performance, I took this portrait of her on stage. That whole weekend she always seemed to be in the audience somewhere, taking it all in, and she led us in a Deep Listening exercise at the closing ceremony on Sunday. Definitely one of the coolest people around — also very warm and friendly, so much so that when I found myself with her in an elevator on Saturday evening, I just had to snap a quick photo.

By: treepour

treepour — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:04:59 -0800

Thanks for this. I've had the great fortune of hearing her live a couple of times (once with Fred Frith, no less). Both times it was a deeply participatory, absorbing, and rewarding experience.

By: Joseph Gurl

Joseph Gurl — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:49:18 -0800

A great musician and person.

By: mongonikol

mongonikol — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:21:55 -0800

My favorite noise is my own alter ego's, DJ Unimportant from Montreal. This one and this one are forces of nature.