• PERFORMANCEOliveros at 80 / Fort Worden Cistern, Image courtesy of the artist Oliveros at 80 / Fort Worden Cistern, Image courtesy of the artist
  • PERFORMANCEPauline Oliveros at EMPAC's 2004 tribute to the San Francisco Tape Music Center, Wow & Flutter / Image: Franz Swerte Oliveros at 80 / Image: Franz Swerte
  • PERFORMANCEOliveros at 80 / Image courtesy of Vinciane Verguethen Oliveros at 80 / Image courtesy of Vinciane Verguethen
  • PERFORMANCEOliveros at 80 / Image courtesy of Ione, Krannert Museum Oliveros at 80 / Image courtesy Ione, Krannert Museum

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Open Studio

Tuesday, May 10, 11:30 AM — 2 PM

Theater

This event is FREE and open to the public.

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Oliveros at 80

Join us for a celebration of Pauline Oliveros’ 80th birthday, complete with Tibetan dungchen, didgerdoo, accordion, meditative percussion, and the Fort Worden Cistern—a two-million-gallon underground water tank made famous by Oliveros’ 1988 Deep Listening album and recreated by Jonas Braasch from Rensselaer’s Architectural Acoustics program. Presented in collaboration with the Rensselaer Arts Department, this event will benefit the Deep Listening Institute.

Curator: Argeo Ascani


May 10 — Open Studio

During Local Lunch in the café, peak into the process of Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Brasch, who will be working on their Fort Worden Cistern simulation for an evening performance in the Concert Hall. FREE.



Bio:

Pauline Oliveros’ life as a composer, performer, and humanitarian is about opening her own and others’ senses to the many facets of sound. Since the 1960s, she has profoundly influenced American music through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth, and ritual. Many credit her with being the founder of present day meditative music. All of Oliveros’ work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies, and improvisational skills.

She has been celebrated worldwide. During the 1960s, John Rockwell named her work Bye Bye Butterfly as one of the most significant of that decade. In the 70s she represented the US at the World’s Fair in Osaka, Japan; during the 80s she was honored with a retrospective at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The 1990s began with a letter of distinction from the American Music Center presented at Lincoln Center in New York, and in 2000 the 50th anniversary of her work was celebrated with the commissioning and performance of her Lunar Opera: Deep Listening For_tunes. Oliveros’ work is available on numerous recordings produced by companies internationally. Sounding the Margins—a forty-year retrospective, will be released soon in a six CD boxed set from Deep Listening.

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