Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) [2] was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director.

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Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932, Houston, Texas, U.S.—died November 24, 2016, Kingston, New York) was an American composer and performer known for conceiving a unique, meditative, improvisatory approach to music called “ deep listening.”

Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian was about opening her own and others' sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Her career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making.

Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) composer, performer, humanitarian, was an important pioneer in American Music. Acclaimed internationally, for six decades she explored sound-forging new ground for herself and others.

Nov 27, 2016 · American composer Pauline Oliveros died on Thursday at the age of 84. She was an accordionist, a teacher and a performer, as well as an early pioneer of electronic music. She dedicated her...

Pauline Oliveros, the Bay Area's godmother of sound, talks about her life's work and the world it's helped shape. FOCUS ON YOUR breathing, focus on the sounds of you rummaging for a pencil to mark your calendar.

Nov 27, 2016 · Pauline Oliveros, a composer whose life’s work aspired to enhance sensory perception through what she called “deep listening,” died on Thursday at her home in Kingston, N.Y. She was 84. Her...

Nov 2, 2016 · "Pauline Oliveros is a virtuoso at creating environments for musicians to explore. The legendary 84-year old composer, accordionist, and electronic pioneer is perhaps best known for her tape experiments from the ’60s, but her musical scores are just as innovative.

Pauline Oliveros, the visionary composer, performer and teacher who co-founded the Department of Music at UC San Diego in 1967, died Thursday in her sleep at her home in Kingston, N.Y. She was 84. Oliveros’ death was announced by renowned flutist Claire Chase, a San Diego native.