1970Nominee
Best Performance
Contacts
Pauline Oliveros
Actor
May 30, 1932
Biography
Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an American composer and accordionist who is a central figure in the development of experimental and post-war electronic art music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the 1960s, and served as its director. She has taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros has written books, formulated new music theories and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of "Deep Listening" and "sonic awareness".
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1992Nominee
Best Performance
Sluts & Goddesses
1965Nominee
Best Performance
The Covenant
Career Highlights
2021Highlight
Best Performance
Sisters with Transistors
2018Highlight
Best Performance
I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead
Video
Sluts & Goddesses
Sisters with Transistors
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