(Photo courtesy of Gisela Gamper)
Pauline Oliveros (1932) is an internationally acclaimed composer, performer, humanitarian, and pioneer in American music. For five decades she has explored sound and forged new ground for herself and others. Through improvisation, electronic music, teaching, ritual, and meditation she has created a body of work with such breadth of vision that it profoundly affects those who experience it. Oliveros was born and raised in Houston, Texas to a musical family. In 1985 she started the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., a non-profit arts organization, to "support all aspects of the creative process for a worldwide community of artists, through her practice of Deep Listening®".
Current projects of the Deep Listening Instutute, Ltd. include Adaptive Use Musical Instruments for the Physically Challenged, partially funded by the Malcolm S. Morse Foundation.
SoundLightWorks
SoundLightWorks is Deep Listening Institute's program that supports work by composer/improvisers and visual artists using performable sound and light sources including musical and visual images.
Sound is diffused in multichannel surround configurations up to 24 channels.
Light is projected on surfaces ranging from one to many flat screens, to scrims to curved and irregtular surfaces and to domes.
Aesthetically a variety of artists of diverse cultures are participating in LightSoundWorks.
The technical emphasis and research for SLW is to develop multi-agent performance systems and a variety of configured performance possibilities from small to large scale.
Supported by Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Atlantic Center for the Arts , Malcolm S. Morse Foundation – Trudy Morse Award and EMPAC.
SoundLightWorks is an ongoing project involving multiple composers, artists and technicians.
More info at: http://www.deeplistening.org/