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Saturday November 22 - Monday November 24

Saturday, November 22, 8 PM
CONCERT: Pauline Oliveros, solo accordion, electronics and voice at Grace Lutheran Church, 1273 Fort Street at Moss

Sunday, November 23, 1-4 PM
WORKSHOP: Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros at Open Space, 510 Fort Street, Victoria

Monday, November 24, 1 PM
DISCUSSION with Pauline Oliveros at University of Victoria, Philip T Young Recital Hall

Saturday, November 22, 8 PM
CONCERT: Pauline Oliveros, solo accordion, electronics and voice
Grace Lutheran Church, 1273 Fort Street at Moss
Tickets $18 / $15 students/seniors/members

John Cage: "Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I finally know what harmony is...  It's about the pleasure of making music."  

Pauline Oliveros has taken the accordion to an heretofore unknown level with sounds stretched and bent in an expressive network of vibrations spinning in space. Her work is known throughout the world for its unusual power to change minds. She currently teaches at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY and at Mills College. In October she will lead a deep listening meditation and perform a duet with Cecil Taylor for the opening of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Sunday, November 23, 1-4 PM
WORKSHOP: Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros
Open Space
510 Fort Street, Victoria
Tickets $15 / $12 Students, Seniors, Members

Pauline Oliveros is the founder of “Deep Listening”, which comes from her childhood fascination with sounds and from her works in concert music with composition, improvisation and electro-acoustics.  Pauline Oliveros describes Deep Listening as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing.  Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, of one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. "Deep Listening is my life practice," she explains, simply. 

The Deep Listening Institute, based in Kingston, New York, was founded by Pauline Oliveros on the conviction that creativity forms the vital spirit of public and personal growth.  The Deep Listening Institute  fosters the creation of innovative arts and associated technologies, and cultivates a global perspective in the arts and education through the practice of Deep Listening.  Deep Listening is a philosophy and practice that distinguishes the difference between the involuntary nature of hearing and the voluntary selective nature of listening. The result of the practice cultivates appreciation of sounds on a heightened level, expanding the potential for connection and interaction with one's environment, technology and performance with others in music and related arts.

The practice of Deep Listening provides a framework for artistic collaboration and musical improvisation and gives composers, performers, artists of other disciplines, and audiences new tools to explore and interact with environmental and instrumental sounds.  Deep Listening fosters creativity in artists of all ages and levels of artistic development.  Pauline Oliveros' annual Deep Listening Retreats are attended by artists from around the world, and her workshops are transformative.  Not to be missed.

Monday, November 24, 1 PM
DISCUSSION with Pauline Oliveros
University of Victoria, Philip T Young Recital Hall

Free

Pauline Oliveros will talk about her lifelong listening practice and her approach to composition and performance.

PAULINE OLIVEROS is a senior figure in contemporary American music.  Her career spans fifty years of boundary dissolving music making.  In the '50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, poets gathered together in San Francisco. Today she is Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY.  Oliveros has been as interested in finding new sounds as in finding new uses for old ones --her primary instrument is the accordion, an unexpected visitor perhaps to musical cutting edge, but one which she approaches in much the same way that a Zen musician might approach the Japanese shakuhachi.  Pauline Oliveros' life as a composer, performer and humanitarian is about opening her own and others' sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds.  Since the 1960's she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. 
   

Further information about Pauline Oliveros can be found at http://paulineoliveros.us  and information about the Deep Listening Institute at http://www.deeplistening.org