VIDEO PODCAST: New Recordings - Find out about Adrian Williams, Andriy Lehki, African Pianism, Heinrich Schütz and Walter Arlen, and meet Stephen Sutton of Divine Art Recordings, conductor Kenneth Woods, composer Graham Williams and others.
VIDEO PODCAST: John Dante Prevedini leads a discussion about Youth Involvement in Classical Music - this specially extended illustrated feature includes contributions from Christopher Morley, Gerald Fenech, Halida Dinova, Patricia Spencer and Roderic Dunnett.
VIDEO PODCAST: Slava Ukraini! - recorded on 24 February 2022, the day Europe woke up to the news that Vladimir Putin's Russian forces had invaded Ukraine. A fifty minute video which also features Caitríona O'Leary and Eric Fraad discussing their new film Island of Saints, and pays tribute to Joseph Horovitz, Malcolm Troup and Maria Nockin.
American composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros was born on 30 May 1932. She had decided at sixteen that she wanted to compose, having learnt to play accordion from the age of nine, from her mother.
She studied at the University of Houston's school of music with Willard A Palmer and at San Francisco State College with Robert Erickson.
At twenty-one she began to work with tape, leading to various compositions and projects. She was one of the first members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center and she created the Expanded Instrument System, an electronic signal processor, which she used for improvising in performances and recordings.
From 1967 until 1981 she worked in the music department at UCSD, then later worked independently. She cultivated the 'deep listening' and 'sonic awareness' concepts, wrote books and produced new music theories.
Pauline Oliveros died on 24 November 2016, aged eighty-four.
Further information: paulineoliveros.us
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