Pauline Oliveros

2019 Archive

Pauline Oliveros‘ (1932-2016) career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. In the sixties she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. She founded “Deep Listening“ as a way of listening in every possible way to everything possible, to hear no matter what you are doing. She was the recipient of four Honorary Doctorates and among her many awards was the William Schuman Award for Lifetime Achievement, Columbia University, New York.

Exhibit

The Drowned World at Cinesphere

Guest curated by Charles Stankievech. During the Biennial, the Cinesphere becomes a world within a world, merging film and sound art with scent and changing atmospheric conditions. From cosmological origin stories, to a future in which civilization is extinct, The Drowned World contrasts deep time with the decline of global ecologies. The project’s title refers to J.G. […]

Partners

Ontario Place
MVS Proseminar, University of Toronto—John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
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