Mnemonics III excerpt
by Pauline Oliveros


About the Piece

Rather than cut and 拼贴 small 作品 of 磁带 together to make a 作曲 I chose to 作品 in real 时间

I used two 磁带 machines with the 磁带 running across both machines to make a 延迟 系统 I used two or more 震荡器 at 高 频率 to produce difference 音调 These 音调 would also 交互 with the bias 频率 of the 磁带 录音机

I would play the 震荡器 into the 磁带 录音机 improvising my way through the 作品 My 系统 of 作曲 in this manner was my own invention


About The Composer

Pauline Oliveros is a senior figure in 当代 American 音乐 Her career spans fifty years of boundary dissolving 音乐 制作 In the ’50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic 作曲者 艺术家 poets gathered together in San Francisco

She has been as interested in finding new 声音 as in finding new uses for old ones –her primary 乐器 is the accordion an unexpected visitor 也许 to 音乐 cutting edge!

Deep Listening

Pauline is the founder of “Deep Listening” which comes from her 童年时期 fascination with 声音 and from her 作品 in concert 音乐 with 作曲 即兴作品（即兴创作） and electro-acoustics

She 描述 Deep 聆听 as a way of 聆听 in every 可能 way to everything 可能 to 听 no matter what you are doing Such intense 聆听 包括 the 声音 of daily life of 本质（自然） of one’s own thoughts as well as 音乐 声音


References

音乐 excerpt courtesy of 重要 Records

The full 作品 and others by Pauline are available here

Imagaes courtesy of the 中心 for 当代 音乐 at Mills College