Pauline Oliveros

With Martha Oneppo

New Haven, CT

November 10, 1981

            TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a:                                                                                                            pp. 1-12

New career as consulting director of Creative Music Studio and resident master of composition at Zen Arts Center‑‑providing music for Merce Cunningham "events"‑‑"Sonic Meditation"‑‑earliest memories of sounds‑-studying piano and accordion‑‑influence of accordion teacher Willard Palmer on future work in electronic music‑‑dramatic experience of hearing sounds while reading poem and desire to write music‑‑effort to avoid traditional music study at University of Houston‑‑study with Robert Erickson in San Francisco‑‑electronic music close to sounds imagined while reading poem‑‑change in musical style after working in electronic music for 10 years‑‑teaching non‑musicians‑‑work written for Illinois Wesleyan choir as example of process of composing‑-writing for performers known personally‑‑new instruments‑‑a "best" work‑‑being a woman composer.

Side b:                                                                                                           pp. 12-14

Survival of the creative self‑‑writing for dancers‑‑importance of appropriate interaction between movement and sound‑‑working with Anna Halprin, Merce Cunningham, Elaine Summers.

Pauline Oliveros

with Erin Donovan

Telephone Interview

April 14, 1995

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DAT begins

Side e                                                                                                             pp. 1-12

Current projects--PS122 Commission--Ear Rings--Brenda Hutchinson--Deidre Murray--Telivou Donna Cumberbatch--Taya Zeru--Women Who Drum--Elise Miller, Judith Muldane, and Loraine Demaris--Deep Listening Band--Stuart Dempster--Sounding/Way--Deep Listening Chorus--improvisation--Margarite Zinker--Sound Symposium--Cathy and Don Weary--Shankarin--Samir Chatterji--Transcultural Music--Deep Listening Publications--Deep Listening Catalogue--Interactive Music--universities and education--women in music and academia--Ellen Taaffe Zwilich--Joan Tower--Libby Larsen--Minneapolis Symphony--Jin Hi Kim--Marry Jane Leach--Frankie Mann--International League of Women Composers--Diane Bolstrom--Feminist Theory and Music.

Pauline Oliveros

with Libby Van Cleve

June 8, l998

Kingston, N.Y.

                                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

[DAT 1 begins]

Side f                                                                                                                         pp. 1-15

Musical background--Oliveros’ parents--choice of music as a profession--desire to become an accordion player--study with William Palmer--musical tastes and sensitivity to sound in early years--early training and composing at the University of Houston--the teaching of composition--teaching at Mills and Oberlin--faith in creativity--composers admired--radio KPFA--Pacifica Prize for Variations for Sextet--Morton Subotnick and the development of the Tape Music Center--West Coast vs. East Coast--San Francisco State College--early compositions--interest in electronic music.

Side g                                                                                                                         pp. 15-30

Tape Music Studio--Ramon Sinder, Terry Riley, Phil Winsor--group improvisation---improvisation with Loren Rush--difference tones--Bye Bye, Butterfly--compositional process--Sonic Meditations--difficulties:  sexism--feminine aesthetic--need for curriculum reform--methods of teaching--premiere of Riley’s In C--Roots of the Moment.

Side h                                                                                                                                    pp. 30-35

European tour--minimalism--Terry Riley, Steve Reich, LaMonte Young, Philip Glass--formalism--Bye Bye Butterfly--Martin Bresnick and György Ligeti--analysis of Roots of the Moment--Sound Patterns--precompositional work--Tune and Just Intonation--Deep Listening Band--Stuart [Dempster]--upcoming concerts:  Deep Listening Band Decade:  A Celebration of Ten Years Work--”Suspended Music”:  Texas Travel Texture--Ellen Fullman and Epigraphs in the Time of AIDS (Oliveros)--concert at C Space--concert at St. Peter’s, Citicorp Center--Joe McPhee’s Unquenchable Fire--concert at Winter Garden--new cds--origins of the Deep Listening Band.

[DAT 2]

Side i                                                                                                                          pp. 35-51

Founding of the electronic music program at USCD--Sonic Meditations--improvisation ensemble--Tai Chi--First Sonic Meditation:  Teach Yourself To Fly--Lester Ingber--study of karate--dream work--Project for Music Experiment--Software for People--The Witness--avant-garde--Joel Chadabe--Elliot A. Schwartz--recordings vs. live music--more Sonic Meditations:  The Deep Listening Pieces--The Witness--Crow Two-training in healing disciplines--meditation--Buddism--entertainment vs. social change, healing, through music--music and the marketplace--Harry Partch.

Side j                                                                                                                          pp. 51-66

Teaching at USCD--Sonic Meditations--work with dancers--Paula Joseph Jones videos--Ghost Dancers--Merce Cunningham--In Memoriam Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer--David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, John Cage--Duo for Accordion and Bandoneon with Possible Mynah Bird Obbligato , Seesaw Version--Cage, Tudor, Toshi Ichiyanagi-- Alvin Lucier--impact of Tudor and Cage--Atlas Eclipticalis by Cage--Music Walk--Terry Riley--leaving USCD for NY--teaching at Stanford--Pauline Oliveros Foundation--Njinga the Queen King--Deep Listening Retreats--importance of the Internet--virtual concerts--definition of American music.

Side k                                                                                                                                    pp. 66-74

Appearances in Germany and Switzerland--predictions for the twenty-first century--apprentice program for Deep Listening--Deep Listening Retreats as a way of transmitting information--Roots of the Moment--Dream Horse Spiel--Anne Bourne--Out of the Dark.