Pauline Oliveros
USA, 1957–2016
Founder of Deep Listening — accordion drones in cisterns, Sonic Meditations, and a lifetime teaching that listening itself is the radical act. Co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center.
MusicRoots documents 1 artist who influenced Pauline Oliveros and 0 artists Pauline Oliveros influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.
Who influenced Pauline Oliveros?
- John Cage — Oliveros's text scores and meditations grew from the experimental permission Cage created — a lineage she acknowledged while turning it toward listening itself.