ABSTRACT
Pauline Oliveros (b. 1932, Houston) stands as one of the most important and provocative figures in contemporary music. She studied composition and accordion at the University of Houston (1949-52), and earned her BA in music from San Francisco State College in 1957 where she studied composition with Robert Erickson. She remained in the Bay Area and from 1961-65 worked as co-director with composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick of the San Francisco Tape Music Center. From 1966-67 she was director of the Center which moved to Oakland in 1966 and became the Mills Tape Music Center. In 1967 she moved to San Diego where she taught in the Department of Music at the University of California, San Diego; she earned tenure in 1976 and was appointed director of the Center for Music Experiment and Related Research. Oliveros resigned from the university in 1981 to pursue an independent career as composer, performer, and teacher. Since 1985 she has been the artistic director of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation Inc., which supports artists internationally in the creation and dissemination of new works in musical, literary, and performing arts. In 2005 its name changed to the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.
