Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an American composer and accordionist who is a central figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She has taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros has written books, formulated new music theories and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "Deep Listening" and "sonic awareness".

  • Title: Pauline Oliveros
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  • Known For: Sound
  • Birthday: 1932-05-30
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Pauline Oliveros Movies

  • 2021
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    Sisters with Transistors

    Sisters with Transistors

    6.868 2021 HD

    Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as...

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  • 1974
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    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

    5.5 1974 HD

    In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater...

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  • 1993
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    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

    The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

    1 1993 HD

    The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie...

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  • 1994
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    skin•es•the•si•a

    skin•es•the•si•a

    1 1994 HD

    How does a woman’s body move? skin•es•the•si•a scrambles the cultural codes of female movement by juxtaposing images from...

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  • 2012
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    Fogo

    Fogo

    5.8 2012 HD

    The deterioration of a small community in Fogo Island is forcing its inhabitants to leave and resettle. Places once occupied by humans are now...

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  • 1965
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    The Covenant

    The Covenant

    6 1965 HD

    Dance film of work by choreographer Elizabeth Harris with original score by Pauline Oliveros. The score is for prepared piano and was performed live...

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  • 1992
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    Sluts & Goddesses

    Sluts & Goddesses

    1 1992 HD

    A humorous, absurd, heartfelt and worshipful look at sex. Features many exotic ways to stimulate sexual and sensual pleasure, like flagellation with...

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  • 1970
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    Contacts

    Contacts

    5 1970 HD

    Super obscure experimental short film. Very raw and primitive, it features a great soundtrack made of amazing psychedelic abstract electronic music...

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  • 2018
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    I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead

    I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead

    1 2018 HD

    Reframing our current political moment in intimate terms, Gibson’s urgent snapshot of worldwide social calamities doubles as a document of...

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  • 1969
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    Lightning Waterfall Fern Soup

    Lightning Waterfall Fern Soup

    5 1969 HD

    Short experimental film by Shelby Kennedy

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  • 1969
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    Clown

    Clown

    1 1969 HD

    A woman remembers the moments with her lover and believes she's made herself ridiculous. She's become a clown.

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  • 2007
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    On the Other Ocean

    On the Other Ocean

    1 2007 HD

    You there. It's late. Imagine yourself with the lid coming down. The hymns and requiems. The sense of movement as you're borne along to the next...

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  • 1976
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    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television

    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television

    1 1976 HD

    In 1975, the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an opera (or piece of theater,...

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