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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". ==Early life and career== From a very young age Oliveros was interested in the sound field around her and started to learn to play music as early as kindergarten. Oliveros learned to play the accordion at nine years of age from her mother because of its popularity in the 1940s as a relatively lucrative instrument.〔Baker, Alan. ("An interview with Pauline Oliveros" ). American Mavericks American Public Media.〕 She later went on to learn the tuba and French horn for grade school and college music. At the age of sixteen she had decided to be a composer. 〔Service, Tom. ("A guide to Pauline Oliveros's music" ). The Guardian.〕 Oliveros arrived in California and supported herself with a day job and supplemented this by giving accordion lessons to students.〔 From there Oliveros went on to attend Moores School of Music at the University of Houston studying with Willard A. Palmer and earned BFA degree in compositions from San Francisco State College where her teachers included composer Robert Erickson, with whom she had private lessons and who mentored her for six to seven years. This is also where she met artists Terry Riley, Stuart Dempster and Loren Rush.〔〔Smith, Steve. ("Strange Sounds Led a Composer to a Long Career" ). New York Times.〕 At the University of Houston, she was a member of the band program and was a founding member of the local chapter of Tau Beta Sigma Honorary Band Sorority. When Oliveros turned twenty-one, she obtained her first tape recording deck, which led to her creating her own pieces and future projects in this field.〔 Oliveros is one of the original members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, which was an important resource for electronic music on the U.S. West Coast during the 1960s.〔Amirkhanian, Charles. ("Women in Electronic Music - 1977" ). Liner note essay. New World Records.〕 The Center later moved to Mills College, where she was its first director, and is now called the Center for Contemporary Music. Oliveros often improvises with the ''Expanded Instrument System'', an electronic signal processing system she designed, in her performances and recordings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pauline Oliveros」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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