Curriculum Vitae | Pauline Oliveros
Education
* BA, Music Composition, San Francisco State College, Cum Laude 1957
* Music, University of Houston, 1952
Work History
Artist-in-residence, Arts Institute, University of Wisconsin Madison Spring 2001
Composer-in-Residence, Darius Milhaud Professor - Mills College - Fall 2000
Kirk Visiting Lecturer - Artist-in-Residence - Agnes Scott College - Spring 2000
Composer-in-Residence, Darius Milhaud Professor - Mills College - Fall 1999
Professor of Composition, Oberlin Conservatory of Music - Spring 1999
Composer-in-Residence, Darius Milhaud Professor - Mills College - Fall 1998
Professor of Composition, Oberlin Conservatory of Music - Spring 1999
Composer-in-Residence - Alfred university - 1998
Pauline Oliveros Foundation Inc. - founder, executive and co-artistic director - 1997/98
Composer -in-Residence, Darius Milhaud Professor - Mills College - 1997
Composer -in-Residence - Northwestern University - 1996
Composer -in-Residence - Darius Milhaud Professor - Mills College - 1996
Composer -in-Residence - Alfred University - 1996
Self employed composer/performer/consultant - 1981-96
Pauline Oliveros Foundation Inc. - founder, president and co-artistic director - 1985-97
Brooklyn College -ISAM - Senior Researcher 1986
Mills College - Visiting Professor 1985
Theater School for New Dance - Amsterdam - Professor - 1985
University of California at San Diego - Professor of Music - 1967-81
Center for Music Experiment at UCSD - Director - 1976-79
Stanford University - Visiting Professor 1979
Mills College Tape Music Center (Center for Contemporary Music)- Inaugural Director - 1966-67
Self employed composer/performer - 1952-66
Consultant
Keynote Address: Life on the Musical Edge given at the Conference Women and Music Technology sponsored by College Music Society at Agnes Scott College March 16-19, 2000
Plenum Speaker: Quantum Listening:From Practice to Theory to Practice Practice given at the Congress on Culture and Humanity in the New Millennium: The Future of Human Values for the Chinese University in Hong Kong January 2000
Keynote address: Quantum Improvisation:The Cybernetic Presence given at Improvisation Across Borders conference UCSD April 1999
Keynote address - Deep Listening: Bridge to Collaboration - Art/Sci Conference at Cooper Union 1998
Herb Alpert Awards - 1997
Meet the Composer - Commissions - 1996
New York Foundation for the Arts -Composer's Fellowships 1994
Pew Charitable Trusts - Composer's Fellowships 1990
Bush Foundation - Composer's Fellowships 1988
New York State Council on the Arts - Composer's Fellowships 1988
National Endowment for the Arts - Composer's Panel - 1974-79
Affiliations
ArtsWire - Executive Committee since 1992
ASCAP - Member since 1981
Composer's Recordings Inc. (CRI) Editorial Board 1991-95
Exploratorium - International Arts Advisory Council 1993-95
Good Sound Foundation - Board of Directors 1985-94
Composer's Forum - Board of Directors since 1982
Ulster Arts Alliance - Member 1990-96
Ulster Arts Alliance - Board of Directors 1995-96
American Music Center - Board of Directors 1982-88
New York Foundation for the Arts - Board of Governors 1987-89
National Young Composer's Competition - Board of Advisors 1996-97
Awards
Foundation for Contemporary Performance -Performance Award 1994
ASCAP Standard Award 1982-1999
Bessie Award for Music Composition, Dance Theater Workshop for Contenders 1991
Letter of Distinction - American Music Center 1991
NEA Composer's Fellowship 1990
City of Philadelphia Citation 1989
NEA Composer's Fellowship 1988
Honorary Doctor of Music - University of Maryland Baltimore County 1986
City of Houston - Pauline Oliveros Day March 3. 1984
NEA Composer's Fellowship 1984
Beethoven Prize - City of Bonn for Bonn Feier 1977
Guggenheim Fellowship for composition 1973
Gaudeamus Prize - Best Foreign Work - Sound Patterns 1962
Pacifica Foundation Prize for Variations for Sextet 1960
Commissions
Sound Patterns and Tropes (2001) - University of Wisconsin River Falls
Lunar Opera:Deep Listening For_Tunes (2000) - Lincoln Center Sayonara Sirenade:20/21 (2000) - Starkland Elemental Gallop (2000) for Flute, Cello, Piano and Voice - Elan Trio The Space of Spirit: Unfolding the NewBorn Lotus (2000)for chorus, carillon and organ - KITKA funded by the National Endowment for the Arts
The Heart of Tones for Trombone and oscillators (1999) Abbie Conant Antigone's Dream (1999)- Dance Makers, Paula Josa Jones choreographer funded by Meet the Composer
Primordial/Lift for ensemble (1998) Fromm Foundation Out of the Dark for chamber orchestra (1998) - Frau Ear Piece (1998) for WDR Cologne -
Four Meditations for Orchestra (1997) for SEM Ensemble for a sound signum (1997) for WDR Cologne Saxual Orientation (1997) Rova Saxophone Quartet Paulina! (1997) film soundtrack for film maker Vicky Funari
Beyond the Mysterious Silence (1996) for the Berkshire Music Festival
Shape Shifting (1995) for American Accordion Association for Ghost Dance (1996) - Lincoln Center for Choreographer Paula Josa Jones
Hommage a Serafina (1994) for Cathy Sharp Tanz Ensemble Basle, Switzerland
Njinga the Queen King (1993) - Brooklyn Academy of Music/Walker Art Center/Yellow Springs Institute/NYSCA
Time Piece (1992) - New American Radio with funds from Meet the Composer Walter's Finest Hours (1992) - Susan Marshall Dance Co. with funds from Meet the Composer/Choreographer Program Pebble Music (1992) Habaragani
Contenders (1991) - Susan Marshall Dance Co. with funds from Meet the Composer/Choreographer Program Skin (1991) - Paula Josa Jones Dance Makers for
A Poem of Change (1990) WDR Cologne for
Dream Horse Spiel (1989) WDR Cologne
Dear. John: A Canon on the Name of Cage (1986) - WDR Cologne
Musica Nova
Ear Piece (1998) - Studio Akustische Kunst WDR Koeln
Four Meditations for Orchestra (1997) S.E.M. Ensemble
Sound Signum 1997 WDR Koeln
Saxual Orientation (1997) - Rova Saxophone Quartet
Paulina! film soundtrack (1997) Vicky Funari
Beyond the Mysterious Silence (1996) Berkshire Music Festival
Shape Shifting for solo accordion (1995) American Accordion Association
Ghostdance (1996) Lincoln Center with Choreographer Paula Josa Jones
Hommage A Serafina (1994) Tanz Ensemble Basle, Switzerland
Njinga the Queen King (1993) Brooklyn Academy of Music/Walker Art Center/Yellow Springs Institute/NYSCA for Time Piece (1992) New American Radio with funds from Meet the Composer
Walter's Finest Hours (1992) Susan Marshall Dance Co. with funds from Meet the Composer/Choreographer Program
Pebble Music (1992) Habaragani - Switzerland
Contenders (1991) Susan Marshall Dance Co. with funds from Meet the Composer/Choreographer Program
Skin (1991) Paula Josa Jones Dance Works
A Poem of Change (1990) Studio Akustische Kunst WDR Koeln
Dream Horse Spiel (1989) Studio Akustische Kunst WDR Koeln
Dear. John: A Canon on the Name of Cage (1986) Studio Akustische Kunst WDR Koeln 1986
Publications
The Roots of the Moment: Collected Writings 1980-1996, Drogue Press 1998
Software For People: Collected Writings 1963-1980
Includes articles on new music, women as composers, sonic meditation, attention and awareness, and technique. Smith Publications 1984.
Initiation Dream, A vivid dream of passage narrated by experimental composer Oliveros and realized through photographs by Becky Cohen. 1983 Astro Artz
Pauline's Proverbs 1979 Edited by Linda Montano, Printed Editions 1979
Scores
Discography: Compact Disc Selections Carrier 1998 (Includes Pigeon) (Deep Listening DL 8 CD 1998) Recorded at Alfred University, Alfred New York
Non Stop Flight 1998 (Music and Arts CD1030) Deep Listening Band - Recorded at Mills College Fall 1996 with Abel, Steinberg, Winant Trio, The Hub and 12 soloists.
Web Sites
Bay Area Women in Creative Music (1996)
Bay Area Artists of the Diaspora (1998)
Hudson Valley Women in Creative Music (1997)
Deep Listening Through the Millennium (1999)
New Albion
Deep Listening
Arts Wire
Smith Publications
Sonic Meditations- 25 meditations for musicians of all ages and skill levels, to help them learn how to focus on, listen to, and produce sound naturally.
Double Basses at Twenty Paces or two basses, their seconds, referee and tape.
Trio for Flute, Piano and Page Turner
Variations for Sextet or flute, clarinet, trumpet, horn, cello and piano.
Willowbrook Generations and Reflections or winds, brass and chorus.
Tree/Peace or violin, cello and piano.
(Spiral) Mandala or four clarinets, bass drum with four players and solo chanter.
Bonn Feier An intermedia piece for indeterminate numbers of performers.
Trio for Accordion, Trumpet and String Bass
Deep Listening Publications
Four Meditations for Orchestra
Portraits Unique score for each performer encouraging creative interaction with the material, for soloist or any ensemble.
The Witness or soloist and an imaginary partner or ensemble of up to 100.
Traveling Companions or 3 percussionists and 3 dancers.
Earth Ears: A Sonic Ritual or any ensemble.
Deep Listening Pieces ifteen pieces some including audience participation.
Gathering Together for one piano eight hands
The Wanderer for twenty two accordions and percussion
Wings of Dove for double wind quintet and two pianos
Beyond the Mysterious Silence: Approaches and Departures - Appearances and Disappearances - for an ensemble and singers.
Discography: Compact Disc Selections
Non Stop Flight 1998 (Music and Arts CD1030) Deep Listening Band - Recorded at Mills College Fall 1996 with Abel, Steinberg, Winant Trio, The Hub and 12 soloists.
Ghostdance - 1998 (Deep Listening) Pauline Oliveros-Accordion, Julie Lyon Rose-Voice and David Gamper-Djembe/ Expanded Instrument System
n the Shadow of the Phoenix 1997 (Big Cat - London) a duo with multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch included in Drift Works a four CD boxed set with three other artists.
Pauline Oliveros: Beautiful Soopand Alien Bog 1997 (Pogus) Vintage electronic music made with the Buchla 100 series synthesizer in 1967 at the Mills Tape Music Center (now the Center for Contemporary Music).
Pauline Oliveros: Electronic Works - I of IV, Big Mother is Watching You and Bye Bye Butterfly 1997 (Paradigm))
Suspended Music 1997 (Periplum). Includes Epigraphs in the Time of Aids with Deep Listening Band and Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument. Recorded at the Candy Factory in Austin TX.
Tosca Salad 1995 (Deep Listening DL 3 CD 1995) A sampler of rehearsals and performances 1992-95 of the Deep Listening Band in a variety of settings and using the Expanded Instrument System (EIS) EIS enables processing of acoustic sounds and the possibility of changing the apparent acoustics of the performance space.
Deep Listening Sanctuary 1995 (Mode 42) A fourth recording by the Deep Listening Band with Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper and Stuart Dempster. Recorded by Bob Bielecki in the acoustically beautiful sanctuary of the Trinity United Methodist Church
Pauline Oliveros and American Voices 1994 (Mode 40) Recorded in a stone chapel in Pomfret, CT in 1992. An acoustic performance with the American Music Theater Group - Neely Bruce - Director and solo accordion in just intonation.
The Ready Made Boomerang 1989 (New Albion NA044CD) A second release from the Deep Listening Band's foray into the Fort Warden Cistern in 1988. This release includes guests Thomasa Eckert, vocals and William O. Smith, clarinet. 1991
Crone Music 1989 (Lovely Music Ltd. LCD 1903) Music created with accordion and Expanded Instrument System for the Mabou Mines production of Lear 1990
Trogolodyte's Delight 1990 (=BFWhat Next? WN0003) The Deep Listening Band (Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis) with guests Fritz Hauser and Julie Lyon Balliette explore the sound properties of the Tarpaper Cave in Rosendale, NY in a special underground concert and recording. 1990
CDCM Computer Music Series, Vol. 7 (CRC 3047 Centaur) Includes Oliveros' Lion's Tale 1990
Deep Listening 1989 (New Albion NA 022 CD) by the Deep Listening Band. Band members Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis have captured the fantastic acoustics of the Fort Worden Cistern, a cavernous underground watertank which possesses an amazing 45 second reverberation time producing pure, smooth reverberation which overlaps the original sound. The recording employs composer Pauline Oliveros' accordion and voice; Dempster's trombone, voice, didjeridu, conch shell and garden hose; and composer/designer Panaiotis' voice, whistling, pipes and metal pieces. 1989. "The sound is breathtaking: mysterious, pure, eerie wrap-around sound that sometimes imitates a heavenly chorus and sometimes a distant jet engine...a listening experience like no other." Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times
Fritz Hauser Zwei 1989 (HatArt CD6010) Two duos with percussionist Fritz Hauser - Deep-Sea Rendezvous and La Chambre Obscure recorded in Switzerland
Kimus #2 1988 (HatArt CD 0901) A HatArt CD Sampler The Roots of the Moment Short version
The Roots of the Moment 1988 (hatArt CD 6009) Accordion in just intonation in an interactive electronic environment created by Peter Ward. 1988. "...a typically engrossing Minimalist tapestry from Pauline Oliveros..." John Rockwell, The New York Times.
"The Gentle" and "A Love Song." Vor der Flut (Eigelstein ES 2025/26CD 1985; two-record import. Recorded in a drained reservoir in Cologne, Germany; solo performance by Oliveros, and works performed by 14 other artists.
Records
Solo Album:
Accordion and Voice (Lovely Music VR 1901), 1982. Includes "Horse Sings rom cloud" and "Rattlesnake Mountain" in solo performance.
With Other Artists:
The Well and the Gentle (hat Art 2020), 1985; two-record import. Includes music recorded in a drained reservoir in Cologne, Germany, and the title works recorded in ensemble by Oliveros and Relache, The Ensemble for Contemporary Music.
The Wanderer (Lovely Music VR 1902), 1984. Title work performed by Oliveros and the 22-piece Springfield Accordion Orchestra; also contains "Horse Sings From Cloud" performed in ensemble.
Selections:
"The Gentle" and "A Love Song." Vor der Flut (Eigelstein ES 2025/26), 1985; two-record import. Recorded in a drained reservoir in Cologne, Germany; solo performance by Oliveros, and works performed by 14 other artists.
"Lullaby for Daisy Pauline." Sleepers (Finnadar 90266-1), 1985.Performed by the Queens College Choral Society; lullabies by seven other artists.
"Bye Bye Butterfly." New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media (1750 Arch s1765), 1977. Includes works by six other artists. Out of print.
"Trio for Flute, Piano and Page Turner." New Music for Woodwinds (Advance FGR-9s), 1973. Includes works by three other artists. Out of print, available in cassette.
"Outline." The Contemporary Contrabass: New American Music by John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Ben Johnston (Nonesuch H-71237), 1969. Performed by Bertram Turetzky. Out of print.
"Sound Patterns." 20th Century Choral Music (Ars Nova AN-1005), 1969. Performed by the New Music Choral Ensemble, includes works by six other artists. Out of print.
"Jar Piece." Electronic Essays (Marathon Music Inc. MS2111), 1968. Includes works by two other artists. Out of print.
"I of IV." New Sounds in Electronic Music (Odyssey 32 16 0160), 1967. Includes works by two other artists. Out of print.
"Sound Patterns." Extended Voices: New Pieces for Chorus and for Voices Altered Electronically by Sound Synthesizers and Vocoder (Odyssey 32 16 0156), 1967. Performed by the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, includes works by five other artists. Out of print.
Tapes
Tara's Room 1988 (Deep Listening) Two meditations on transition and change for accordion in just intonation Two meditations on transition and change for accordion in just intonation and electronic processing. "...Both pieces are intended to aid the listener in times of spiritual change, but are just fine for 'everyday' use as well. Highly recommended." Charles S. Russell, Ear Magazine. 1987.
With Other Artists:
Trogolodyte's Delight (see compact disc description above) Deep Listening With Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis. See description of CD, above. 1989.
Sounding Way (Pauline Oliveros Publications), 1986. With Guy Klucevsek,