2004 Seattle Improvised Music Festival
Thursday, February 12 · Cornish College PONCHO Theater
710 E Roy Street · 8 P.M. · $5-15 sliding scale donationPauline Oliveros
Photo by Pieter Kers
Composer, performer, author, and philosopher Pauline Oliveros has influenced American music extensively through her works with improvisation, electronic music, teaching, myth, ritual, and meditation. Her recent commissions include “Ghost Dance” in collaboration with Boston-based choreographer Paula Josa Jones, commissioned by Lincoln Center 1995; music for the Mabou Mines production of "Lear" and "Contenders" for the Susan Marshall Dance Co. (for which she received the Bessie Award for the music from Dance Theater Workshop in 1991). She has performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., New Music America festivals, and in countless concert halls and performance spaces worldwide. Oliveros received a $25,000 award for her work in 1995 from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance - New York City.
In 1985 she founded The Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Inc., to support all aspects of the creative process for a worldwide community of artists. The foundation, under her direction (along with Co-Artistic Director and playwright Ione) most recently produced a music theater work, "Njinga the Queen King," with Pauline's original music and sound. "Njinga" had its premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December, 1993. The Foundation is now celebrating its tenth year with a series of concerts and readings in Kingston, NY. From her early years as the first Director of the Tape Music Center at Mills College to her fourteen-year term as Professor of Music at the University of California of San Diego, and from Sonic Meditations to Deep Listening, her compositions, performances, and innovations have already established her place in music history.
Friday, February 13 · Cornish College PONCHO Theater
710 E Roy Street · noon · $5-15 sliding scale donationPauline Oliveros Workshop
Deep Listening® is a practice originated by Pauline Oliveros for anyone who cares to participate. Deep Listening is concerned with patterns of attention, the sounds perceptible in the space/time continuum, and ways of listening and responding. A Deep Listening workshop consists of the history of the practice and participation in exercises. This workshop will include physical energy exercises, just listening, the extreme slow walk, and partner discussion and processing followed by a question/answer period.