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Composer Pauline Oliveros is a maverick in the field of electronic music. Oliveros’ first instrument was the accordion; as a teenager in Texas she played in a 100-piece accordion group that appeared at the rodeo. In 1949 she entered the University of Houston, but in 1952 transferred to San Francisco State College. Oliveros studied music privately with Robert Erickson and began to associate with a loose confederation of like-minded composers; Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Morton Subotnick among them. Oliveros was among the first composers to participate when Subotnick and Ramon Sender founded the San Francisco Tape Center in 1961, and served as the Center’s director in the first year following its move to Mills College (1966-1967). Some of the pieces Oliveros created in the 1960s, such as Bye Bye Butterfly (1965) and I of IV (1966; created at the University of Toronto) are acknowledged as classics of electronic music. From the beginning Oliveros was not greatly interested in electronic tape and its manipulation, preferring to explore real-time electronics, interactivity, and the use of delays.

In the early ’70s Oliveros began to amplify the theatrical aspect of her works, in addition to incorporating elements of her growing interests in spirituality and meditation. This touched off a series of pieces that emphasized intuition and consciousness among large masses of people.
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  • SatanEsCholo

    Sorprendente.

    February 2012

  • jimdjcheve

    }Orgasmos sonoros

    September 2011

  • cogsturning

    a 100-piece accordion group sounds ridiculously brutal. [2]

    February 2011

  • DoglessEndeavor

    Brilliant.

    January 2011

  • lodyforyou

    Queen!

    January 2011

  • phillip360

    Pauline if you are reading this, I left the front door key at Tony's house. Also he asked you to glue and expand the estrus and electrified 'pataphysics group.

    October 2010

  • Hautuumaasaari

    Does somebody have a full version of 'Bye Bye Butterfly' video?

    June 2010

  • oseland

    a 100-piece accordion group sounds ridiculously brutal.

    May 2010
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