Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros were creators of American music that "never existed in the world" until they changed the world by making it. They were two of America's most unique creative voices—internationally renown as improvisors, composers, and philosophers-of-sound—as artists who were all of these things at once, challenging listeners to reconsider distinctions between composition, improvisation, the art of listening and making sound. As part of EMPAC's opening on October 5, 2008, they each performed as soloists, and then together for the first time.

Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros were creators of American music that "never existed in the world" until they changed the world by making it. They were two of America's most unique creative voices—internationally renown as improvisors, composers, and philosophers-of-sound—as artists who were all of these things at once, challenging listeners to reconsider distinctions between composition, improvisation, the art of listening and making sound. As part of EMPAC's opening on October 5, 2008, they each performed as soloists, and then together for the first time.

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