This morning we covered Pauline Oliveros, her theory and practice of Deep Listening, and her collaborators and comrades. In the first block, we explore the San Francisco Tape Music Center. Then we go into some of Pauline’s collaborations, including the Deep Listening Band and Cicada Dream Band. We then hear some of Pauline’s solo works, followed by a performance of one of the Sonic Meditations and a talk by Pauline about the practice of Deep Listening. We close out with some selections from Pauline’s close collaborators and comrades. Thanks for listening!
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An extended (~4 hour) playlist for this episode is available here.
Throughout the episode, background music while I was talking was “Lear” from Deep Listening by The Deep Listening Band (1988).
Some essential reading for Deep Listening practitioners:
Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice by Pauline Oliveros
Listening in Dreams by Ione
Deeply Listening Body by Heloise Gold
You can read the Sonic Meditations here.
Here is a link to the Center for Deep Listening’s website.
A short Deep Listening 101 zine that I made is available here.
The Tuning Meditation we listened to is available to watch/hear here, and Pauline’s talk about Deep Listening that we listened to can be viewed in full here.
Lastly, if you live in Richmond and would like to join a Deep Listening study group, contact me: emilysue@gmail.com!
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Playlist:
David Tudor, Ian Underwood, Stuart Dempster, Pauline Oliveros & Morton Subotnick, “Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music, Electronic Version”
from Music From The Tudorfest: San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1964
New World Records - 2014
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis, “Suiren”
from Deep Listening
New Albion Records - 1989
Pauline Oliveros, David Rothenberg, Timothy Hill, “Information National Forest”
from Cicada Dream Band
Terra Nova Music - 2014
Iva Bittová, Timothy Hill & David Rothenberg, “Motherless (Live)”
from New Cicada Trio: Live in Beacon
Terra Nova Music - 2017
Silvia Tarozzi, Pauline Oliveros & Massimo Simoni, “Thirteen Changes: No. 13, Directionless Motion - Unquiet Stilness - A Moment Alone With Millions of People - Calming the Waters - The Aura of a Black Bird”
from Virgin Violin
I dischi di angelica - 2014
Pauline Oliveros, “Bye Bye Butterfly”
from OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)
Ellipsis Arts - 2000
Pauline Oliveros, “Alien Bog (1967)”
from Oliveros: Alien Bog / Beautiful Soop
Pogus - 1997
Pauline Oliveros, “Horse Sings from Cloud”
from Accordion & Voice
Important Records - 2014
Tom Bickley & Bob Marsh, “Microtonic Meditations for Endings and Beginnings: II. Scherzo”
from Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Innova - 2010
Sculpture, “Berceuse5 (feat. Maria Chavez)”
from Projected Reworks
Psyché Tropes - 2020
David Rothenberg, “Man of Constant Sorrow”
from On the Cliffs of the Heart
Felmay - 1995
David Hykes & Harmonic Choir, “Harmonic Relation”
from Harmonic Meetings
Celestial Harmonies - 1986
Pauline Oliveros & Ione, “Water Above Sky Below Now (Part1)”
from Water Above Sky Below Now
Morphine Records - 2016
Deep Listening Band & Zero the Clown, “Mairzy Doats”
from Dempster - Gamper - Oliveros: Traffic Prayers - Deep Hockets - The Last Chances - Mairzy Doats - Cage, C.: 4' 33'' - Variations II
Music and Arts Programs of America - 2011