Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Pauline Oliveros (1932) is a composer, performer, author and philosopher and has influenced American music extensively through her works with improvisation, electronic music, teaching, myth, ritual and meditation. She pioneered the concept of Deep Listening, practice based upon principles of improvisation, electronic music, ritual, teaching and meditation designed to inspire both trained and untrained performers to practice the art of listening and responding to environmental conditions in solo and ensemble situations. During the mid-’60s she served as the first director of the Tape Music Center at Mills College, aka Center for Contemporary Music followed by 14-years as Professor of Music and 3 years as Director of the Center for Music Experiment at the University of California at San Diego. Since 2001 she has served as Distinguished Research Professor of Music in the Arts department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where she is engaged in research on a National Science Foundation CreativeIT project. Her research interests include improvisation, special needs interfaces and telepresence teaching and performing. She also serves as Darius Milhaud Composer in Residence at Mills College doing telepresence teaching and she is executive director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. where she leads projects in Adaptive Use, Deep Listening and Publications. She is the winner of the 2009/10 William Schuman Award from Columbia University.
CONFERENCE – BREIF ABSTRACT:
Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. has supported the Deep Listening Convergence in 2006 with 45 musicians in a virtual online residency using SKYPE. At the end of the residency all the 45 musicians were brought together in Upstate NY. 25 pieces were performed at three different venues live. All the pieces were improvised or created and rehearsed during the SKYPE online residency. http://virtualsoundexchange.net is an outcome of the Deep Listening Convergence and is intended to encourage other such residencies, partnerships and ensemble developments online. DLI also has www.deeplistening.org/site/telematic – The Telematic Circle for developing partnerships for high tech network performances.