Browse by Artist: OLIVEROS, PAULINE

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Ghostdance
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 007CD

The long awaited soundtrack of the Ghostdance music and dance collaboration between Oliveros and Paula Josa-Jones, commissioned by Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. Performed by: Pauline Oliveros (accordion/EIS), David Gamper (djembe/EIS) & Julie Lyon Rose (voice/EIS). "The Expanded Instrument System (EIS) used in this recording is an evolving electronic sound processing environment dedicated to providing improvising musicians control over various interesting parameters of electronic transformation of their acoustic instruments. Performers each have their own setup which includes their delay and ambiance processors, microphones, signal routing and mixing, and a computer which translates and displays control information from foot pedals and switchs."

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Tara's Room
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 022CD

"The two works on this CD -- 'Tara's Room' and 'The Beauty of Sorrow' were composed and performed by Pauline Oliveros and recorded in May 1987. Previously only available as a cassette and long out of print, Deep Listening is proud to make these wonderful pieces available on CD. 'The Beauty of Sorrow' is intended to assist the listener in connecting and relaxing with deep feelings. 'The Beauty of Sorrow' was played by the composer on a small accordion tuned in just intonation and using Lexicon delay processors in a version of her Expanded Instrument System (EIS). Tara's Room is an invocation for wisdom especially during an unfamiliar journey. Tara's Room is a multi-track recording with all materials (voice, percussion, flute) played and sung by Pauline Oliveros."

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Lion's Eye/Lion's Tale
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 028CD

"'Lion's Eye for Gamelan' was commissioned in 1985 by Barbara Benary for Gamelan Son of Lion. "Lion's Eye for Sampler' was commissioned concurrently by Neil Rolnick for iEAR Presents at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Both versions were performed in 1985. The intention to combine both pieces in order to expand the tempo range of the Gamelan was first realized in May of 1989 in performances by the Berkeley Gamelan in Oakland and San Francisco, California under the direction of Daniel Schmidt. This version of 'Lion's Eye' is recorded on this disc. The duration of 'Lion's Eye' is forty-five minutes. 'Lion's Tale' (1989) is composed of layered polymetrical, polyrhythmical patterns. The patterns are played at speeds ranging up to 1800 per minute. The composer designed patterns are generated by the computer program. 'Lion's Tale' may be created in a new version every time the program is run. 'Lion's Tale' also exists in a MIDI version for a keyboard performer."

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Primordial/Lift
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 033CD

"Originally released on the Table of the Elements label and long out of print, this version of the recording contains an additional 30 minutes of material not included on the original release. Recorded live on March 20, 1998 at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Primordial/Lift is based on information concerning the shift in the resonant frequency of the earth from 7.8hz to 13hz given in Awakening to the Zero Point by Gregg Braden, Radio Bookstore Press (1997). According to Braden, the resonant frequency of the earth was measured as 7.8hz in 1960 and by 1994 the measurement was at 8.6hz and it will rise to 13hz by 2010. At the same time the magnetic fields of the earth are diminishing in strength towards zero point. By the time that 13hz is established as the resonant frequency the magnetic fields will reverse their polarity - North will become South and vice versa. The acceleration from 7.8hz to 13hz of the earth's resonant frequency is represented in Primordial/Lift by a low frequency oscillator." Pauline Oliveros - accordian & electronics, voice; Andrew Deutsch - electronics & toy piano; Tony Conrad - electric violin & ring modulator; Anne Bourne - cello & voice; Alexandria Gelencser - electric cello; David Grubbs - harmonium; Scott Olson - low frequency oscillator.

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Crone Music
Label:	LOVELY MUSIC
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	LCD 1903

"Studio recordings from 1989-90, 'commissioned by Mamou Mines, the New York based experimental theater collective, for their production of Lear by William Shakespeare.' In use herein is a fairly complex series of pitch-modulated foot-controlled digital delay units which render Oliveros' solo accordion playing into a full accordion ensemble. This all results in SERIOUSLY dense overtone/ghost chord action, complete with microtones and countermelodies emulating something like a grand-pipe-organ jam session. Heavy. By far the most ear-triggering of all Oliveros's explorations with said instrument." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Electronic Works
Label:	PARADIGM (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	PD 004CD

1997 release, restocked. Three early electronic works from 1965-66, which acts as a perfect companion piece to the other recent Oliveros electronic CD on Pogus Productions (there is no overlap between the two). "'I of IV' was made in July 1966...it is a real time studio performance composition (no editing or tape splicing) utilizing the techniques of amplifying combination tones and tape repetition. The combination tone technique was one I developed in 1965 at the SF Tape Music Center. The equipment consisted of 12 sine tone square wave generators connected to an organ keyboard, 2 line amplifiers, mixer, Hammond spring type reverb and 2 stereo tape recorders. 'Big Mother Is Watching You' was also produced at Toronto Electronic Music Studio in the summer of 1966. It is another experiment using the techniques I developed whilst in SF. The core of this technique is tape delay and super heterodyning. This piece utilizes a variety of sound sources including pink noise bands and some occasional voice input.'Bye Bye Butterfly' is a 2 channel tape composition." --Pauline Oliveros.

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21012

Features 2 long tracks (63 total minutes) of early, emotionally stunning electronic music from Ms. Oliveros. "Her revolutionary work in the use of tape delay and heterodyne techniques, coupled with experimental use of combination tones and supersonic frequencies, presaged techniques now being explored digitally," and there's never been better evidence of it than the brain-eclipsing "Alien Bog" -- a masterpiece of electronic tone squelch. Only an excerpt of this has been previously issued, while "Beautiful Soop" is released for the first time. "During her first year at The Tape Music Center at Mills College in Oakland, CA, Pauline Oliveros completed 'Beautiful Soop' (1966) and 'Alien Bog' (1967) utilizing the original Buchla Box 100 series created for the Tape Music Center by Don Buchla and her tape delay system. 'I was deeply impressed by the sounds from the frog pond outside the studio window at Mills. I loved the accompaniment as I worked on my pieces. Though I never recorded the frogs, I was of course deeply influenced by their music."

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	No Mo
Label:	POGUS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	POGUS 21023

"In the summer of 1966 I worked in the classical Electronic Music Studio at the University of Toronto for six weeks. The system I used to create 'No Mo' and 'Something Else' consisted of Layfette tone generators, noise source and tape delay. In the Fall of 1966 I was the newly appointed director of the Mills Tape Music Center formerly the San Francisco Tape Music Center and now the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College. 'Bog Road' was created at the Mills Tape Music Center in the Summer of 1967 with the Buchla Series 100 Box. The studio overlooked a pond where frogs were singing a chorus that inspired a series of Bog pieces".-- Oliveros

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Four Electronic Pieces 1959-1966
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SR 185CD

Sub Rosa presents Pauline Oliveros' early and definitive tape and electronic music of the late fifties and sixties -- all released for the first time ever! Born in Texas in 1932, Pauline Oliveros is more than ever an important American composer. Her accomplishments speak to an array of disciplines: her pieces for accordion; the creation of the Deep Listening Institute, a center dedicated to fostering artistic creativity through workshops, performances, and new technologies; her approach to improvisation in relation to meditation; and her numerous and varied collaborations with, among others, John Cage, Morton Subotnick, Terry Riley, Sonic Youth, Erold and Andrew Deutsch. Each piece on this release exemplifies her systematic exploration of electronic sounds, which was fundamental to this period. "Mnemonics" prefigures her meditative and breathing pieces. "V of IV" structures sound as noise. "Time Perspectives" is among her first variations on silence. Finally, "Once Again" develops a wild energy that out-strips itself, a frenzy the likes of which is hard to find even to this day. As Oliveros explains, the detailed methodology behind her work offers a unique inquiry into the process of artistic invention itself. "My work with electronic music began in 1959. My first tape piece was an ambitious four channel work called 'Time Perspectives.' The piece was made by recording small sounds from objects resonated on a wooden wall and changing the tape speed. I used cardboard tubes as filters by inserting the mic into the tube and recording sources through the tubes. I used my bath tub as a reverberation chamber. Sections of the piece were improvised and then subjected to speed changes. When the San Francisco Tape Music Center was established together with Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnik there was a pool of equipment to use and I began to work with electronic sound. Rather than cut and splice small pieces of tape together to make a composition I chose to work in real time. I used two tape machines with the tape running across both machines to make a delay system. I used two or more oscillators at high frequencies to produce different tones. These tones would also interact with the bias frequencies of the tape recorders. I would play the oscillators into the tape recorders improvising my way through the piece. My system of composing in this manner was my own invention." --Pauline Oliveros

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Primordial Lift
Label:	TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	TOE 053CD

1999 release, repressed for the first time in many years. "Minimalist composer and founding member of the Deep Listening Band, Pauline Oliveros is known for creating pulsating soundscapes and sonic meditations. In these premier recordings, however, she engages a more aggressive, electric sound with assistance from fellow minimalists Tony Conrad and Alex Gelencser, and Gastr Del Sol's David Grubbs. Within a strategic modulation processed through a low-frequency oscillator, Conrad's violin, Grubbs' harmonium, and Oliveros' signature accordion drone and enthrall. The guiding metaphor of Primordial Lift structures the musicians' performances, mirroring the resonate frequency of the earth and its acceleration from 7.8 to 13hz and beyond. In 1994 the frequency was already at 8.6 and 13hz will be achieved by 2010, at which point the magnetic fields of the earth will pass through a zero point and a polar shift will occur. The acceleration from 7.8 to 13hz is 'Primordial'; 13hz and beyond is 'Lift'."

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