I have 7 of Oliveros' CDs. She is legend, of course. Not enough of her music has the bass drone that I like, but I read that her custom accordion is about a octave lower than most. Cost $11,000 to make. Deep Listening and The Roots of the Moments are the records to have. Stuart Dempster, her collaborator on Deep Listening, has returned to that same cistern to record another great piece.
Meh, no desputing the greatness of Beethoven, I agree it is excellent as are so many other traditional artists.
There is more to music than confining notes to an 8 tone scales and 3/4 or 4/4 meters though.
Consider whalesong: watch?v=xo2bVbDtiX8
It's music, just not the domesticated human flavor. Oliveros, may not be capturing "beautiful" music, does she capture something from the wild beyond the domesticated pen of human musical law, and that is at least interesting if not pretty.
And I seriously doubt she's "improvising". This is her style of Deep Listening music, contemplative, flowing, relaxed, amorphic, floating, gently odd and eccentric. The way most musicians cannot usually be, unless you get them stoned and say "it's just for fun".
Pauline is one of my great heroic inspirations in music. It's like she's playing the sounds of the accordion, and not necessarily notes and chords as tradition view them.
Bella!
tastontotu 3 months ago
i dont think this sounds good
undeadpresident 7 months ago
De gustibus non est disputandum...that said, I don't think Bach will be sharing a playbill with Oliveros three hundred years from now...
cantilever 8 months ago
I am new to her music. My first impression is that her music is cinematic.
HunterMann 1 year ago
@HunterMann look for a track called 'tuning meditation'
otacon451 1 year ago
@otacon451 Thank you, I'll look for that & listen.
HunterMann 1 year ago
I have 7 of Oliveros' CDs. She is legend, of course. Not enough of her music has the bass drone that I like, but I read that her custom accordion is about a octave lower than most. Cost $11,000 to make. Deep Listening and The Roots of the Moments are the records to have. Stuart Dempster, her collaborator on Deep Listening, has returned to that same cistern to record another great piece.
IgorSavtchenko 1 year ago
jeeze, slip me some ecstasy give me a sex change and age me to 70, and i'm sure i could produce something mightily similar ..
Note: origin of sex for sex change unclear, but still required in my hypothetical experiment.
punchachristian1 1 year ago
The emperor has no clothes!
NorthCampusRevue 2 years ago 4
comments like this are so adolescent.
freejazzfree 2 years ago
Saw her play a duet with Cecil Taylor last year. That shit was incredible.
To me, Pauline's music sounds like cities.
JBtheRuiner 2 years ago 2
I met her in Atlanta. Really smart lady.
tokyohalogen 2 years ago
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brandon1187 2 years ago
Meh, no desputing the greatness of Beethoven, I agree it is excellent as are so many other traditional artists.
There is more to music than confining notes to an 8 tone scales and 3/4 or 4/4 meters though.
Consider whalesong: watch?v=xo2bVbDtiX8
It's music, just not the domesticated human flavor. Oliveros, may not be capturing "beautiful" music, does she capture something from the wild beyond the domesticated pen of human musical law, and that is at least interesting if not pretty.
xagcx 2 years ago 12
there is no such thing as real and unreal music. it's not worth arguing with people like you, that's all i have to say.
Yontar 2 years ago 2
@brandon1187 so you're a limited, conservative percussionist. big wow.
tomdissonance 1 year ago
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brandon1187 2 years ago
coward
freejazzfree 2 years ago
just another troll under the bridge...
daihong68 2 years ago
And I seriously doubt she's "improvising". This is her style of Deep Listening music, contemplative, flowing, relaxed, amorphic, floating, gently odd and eccentric. The way most musicians cannot usually be, unless you get them stoned and say "it's just for fun".
vaspers 2 years ago
Pauline is one of my great heroic inspirations in music. It's like she's playing the sounds of the accordion, and not necessarily notes and chords as tradition view them.
vaspers 2 years ago
She's so wonderful!
theorygeek00 2 years ago
This "old lady" is one of the seminal figures in the development of avant garde music. Do your homework!!
organdude44 2 years ago 3
Sublime.
normloman 3 years ago
I don't think it's a particular song, she's probably improvising it.
TOOmoomba 3 years ago
could you PLEASE tell me the name of the song? or where can I find it? I need it for my design class.... i need help!
karolita90 3 years ago
yeah i think so too. she was improvising.
aperisimo 3 years ago
haha yeah... that's what I thought lol, i had to change the song for my project... too bad because I really like this one... :)
karolita90 3 years ago
This is awesome, I was there!
anglomofo 3 years ago 3
This old lady gets it
schandler1103 4 years ago 6