This show, first broadcast on April 5, 2015, is devoted exclusively to Pauline Oliveros, one of America’s greatest composer/musicians, and includes excerpts of my own interview with her. Oliveros’ work as improviser is featured, in real-time electronic music; in the use of mic’d appleboxes with David Tudor; and in performing on the Expanded Accordion, tuned in just intonation and incorporating live electronics, with the processing and mixing of Panaiotis. Also heard is one of her meditative compositions as well as some of her voice and accordion performance in my opera Agamemnon, along with singer Phil Minton and percussionist Roger Turner. The works played are:
PAULINE OLIVEROS
Bye Bye Butterfly (1965)
Applebox Double (1965)
The Tuning Meditation (1971)
Agamemnon, Act 2, Scene 2 (recorded 1988) [excerpt]
Crone Music (1989)
Link to:
Music: SFCR Radio Shows 2012–2018
For more on AGAMEMNON, see:
Music Lecture: Agamemnon
Music Lecture: The Secret of 20th-Century American Music
Music: KALW Radio Show #1, A Few of My Favorite Things…
Music: SFCR Radio Show #6, Postmodernism, part 3: Three Contemporary Masters
Music: SFCR Radio Show #12, A Tribute to Robert Ashley
Music: SFCR Radio Show #34, Remembering Julius Eastman
For more on Pauline Oliveros, see:
Film Review: Prism’s Colors, The Mechanics of Time
Music Book: Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music, Second Edition
Music Book: Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers
Music Lecture: The Secret of 20th-Century American Music
Music: KALW Radio Show #4, Women’s History Month
Music: KALW Radio Show #6, Gender Variance in Western Music, part 2: Female-to-Male Representations
Music: KALW Radio Show #7, In Tribute
Music: SFCR Radio Show #5, Minimalism
NICOLE V. GAGNÉ 