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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

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".

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Movies Made By Pauline Oliveros (9)

I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead (2018)

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 My ...

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Fogo (2012)

The deterioration of a small community in Fogo Island is forcing its inhabitants to leave and resettle. Places once occupied by humans are now becoming part of the tundra landscape. In spite of a condemn future, there are some residents who decide to remai ...

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On the Other Ocean (2007)

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. ...

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skin•es•the•si•a (1994)

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 ...

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Sluts & Goddesses Video Workshop (1992)

A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with oak leaves, body contortions, tattooing, piercing, shaving and gender play. ...

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Contacts (1970)

Super obscure experimental short film. ...

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Clown (1969)

A woman remembers the moments with her lover and believes she's made herself ridiculous. She's become a clown. ...

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The Covenant (1965)

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 Franci ...

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Movies Starring Pauline Oliveros (3)

Sisters with Transistors (2021)

Think of early electronic music and you'll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techni ...

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The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros (1993)

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 ...

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Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley (1974)

In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater depending on the case) for television. The work is comprised of seven, two hours sections. Each "episode" is ...

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