{"id":1285,"date":"2013-12-05T04:11:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaron-sherwood.com\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:11:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:11:13","slug":"interview-pauline-oliveros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaron-sherwood.com\/blog\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"Interview – Pauline Oliveros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pauline Oliveros<\/a>\u00a0did me a great honor in taking time to answer a few of my questions:<\/p>\n

1) How do you define music?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What ever is sounding depending on how I am listening.<\/p>\n

Noise?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What I don’t want to listen to.<\/p>\n

Is there a difference?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The difference is in how I am listening.<\/p>\n

2) When you’re organizing sound (composing) in your current practice, are you thinking about any of these: melodies, harmonies, rhythms, sounds, frequency relationships, form, improvisation? What kind of framework do you use for composing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t like the idea of “framework”. Too limited.<\/p>\n

How has this changed over the years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From just listening to what I wanted to hear and notating it to conceptualizing instructions for how to make the sounds I want to hear.<\/p>\n

3) When you improvise by yourself how are you listening to yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My ears are receiving the sounds that I make and sending the signals to my brain where I listen – interpret, decide.<\/p>\n

How are you responding?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My body is responding as it listen.<\/p>\n

How about when improvising with others?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No difference.<\/p>\n

Do you consider yourself having a “style” of improvisation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is what it is when it is.<\/p>\n

4) How has your practice of listening informed your understanding of the mind\/body structure?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The body is faster than the mind.<\/p>\n

How does it play into your day to day experiences?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Depends on how I am listening.<\/p>\n

5) If the world we could see was audible what would it sound like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How would I know?<\/p>\n

6) Can you give me two listening exercises and two compositional exercises to do that might help me explore making my visible world audible?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Look until you sound.
\nDon’t look until you sound.
\nCompose the rhythm of your looking.
\nCompose the textures of what you see.<\/p>\n

7) Where do you think the forefront of music is currently, in terms of music being created in ways that haven’t happened before?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Large group composition on the internet.<\/p>\n

What are areas to explore that haven’t been?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t know yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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