Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Pauline Oliveros Quotes

Find the best Pauline Oliveros quotes with images from our collection at QuotesLyfe. You can download, copy and even share it on Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Linkedin, Pinterst, Reddit, etc. with your family, friends, colleagues, etc. The available pictures of Pauline Oliveros quotes can be used as your mobile or desktop wallpaper or screensaver.


Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening"

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones."

I am also interested in music expanding consciousness. By expanding consciousness, I mean that old patterns can be replaced with new ones.




Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears"

Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions."

Listening is selecting and interpreting and acting and making decisions.




Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize."

When I am composing, the sounds are leading me to the way I want them to organize.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry."

Working in theoretical systems can take away the juice. It can also be very beautiful, but when you're trying to satisfy a theoretical principle rather than a sonic reality, then it can become dry.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds."

Deep listening is experiencing heightened awareness or expanded awareness of sound and of silence, of quiet, and of sounding - making sounds.




Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all."

We think about sitting in a space and hearing some music by having our ears pointed forward towards the musicians sitting opposite us. I'm really not following that paradigm at all.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music."

Everybody improvises their way through every day. And so I do that with music.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what it did with my mental space. These were meditations that I did."

I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what it did with my mental space. These were meditations that I did.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person."

I feel that students always learn more from each other than they do from their professor. They learn by doing and not by trying to soak up information from one person.



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

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




Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I think the worst thing is stereotyping."

I think the worst thing is stereotyping.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me."

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players."

I'm thinking of the audience as being ambient, meaning not sitting focused but being in the space and exploring it while listening to the players.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "A mouse and a keyboard is not a good performance instrument."

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



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932."

Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion]."

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it."

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things happening as I play."

You invent things like algorithms to take care of some of the changes you want to make. The changes aren't detectable. There's all kinds of things happening as I play.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now."

The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio."

All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music."

The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest ."

Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise."

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



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

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



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it."

That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a meadow, and I offered the tuning meditation and they did it.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders."

I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree and we did the sonic meditations on the boulders.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say."

[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "After a long section of the glass playing, you'll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There'll be a lot of mystery about the sound, I think."

After a long section of the glass playing, you'll hear an instrumental sound emerge from some undisclosed location. There'll be a lot of mystery about the sound, I think.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that."

I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part."

I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape."

In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton."

I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The Tower designed by the visual artist Ann Hamilton.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much."

I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "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."

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.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go."

I try to schedule the Intensives wherever I go.



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it."

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



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I used to go into the studio around midnight and stay all night."

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



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "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."

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

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



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this."

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



Pauline Oliveros Quotes: "When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention."

When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.