Pauline Oliveros
type: Item
description: pioneer of electronic music
Type of information: Person
Field: sound, music and amplification
occupation: composer
occupation: musician
Wikidata source: Q444857
date of birth: 1932-05-30T00:00:00Z
Date of death: 2016-11-25T00:00:00Z
country of citizenship: USA
context: Composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros (30 May 1932 - November 24, 2016) began exploring tape and electronic music techniques in the late 50s. A founding member and central figure of the influential San Francisco Tape Music Centre with Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick, her compositions introduced meditative and ritualistic practices while exploring deep, existential ideas. Gender inequality would be a theme that she addressed tenaciously. An essay she wrote for the NY Times in 1970 started with a provocative question – “Why have there been no ‘great’ women composers?” Lifting the veil on gender bias and societal expectations of domestic compliance, she worked as she says “To create an atmosphere of opening for all to be heard, with the understanding that listening is healing.”
is used in theme: Women and technology (Theme)
Canon image ID: 2327