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Darmstadt 2012: Pauline Oliveros 80th Birthday Celebration

Darmstadt celebrates Pauline Oliveros' 80th birthday with a program celebrating Oliveros's diverse body of work and a handful of her valued collaborators, including Anmari Wili (piano), Jason Hwang (violin), Alex Waterman (cello), Fast Forward (percussion), Jim Alteri (violinist), and multi-instrumentalist Miguel Frasconi. The program includes For Pauline, Tree Peace, and Oliveros's participatory Tuning Meditation.

A visionary figure in the experimental tradition, Texas native Pauline Oliveros came of age during the 1950s in the Bay Area, forming the group Sonics with Ramón Sender and Morton Subotnick, which led to the creation of the San Francisco Tape Center. Oliveros directed the center in 1967, where she composed pioneering electronic music including the piece Bye Bye Butterfly (1965). Her body of subsequent work includes choral and instrumental scores, strategies for improvisation, ritual-theater, germinal writings, explorations of drone, and solo performance with her accordion. Her Sonic Meditations of the early 1970s are widely performed and taught internationally. In 1988 she formed the Deep Listening Band after an experience making music with trombonist Stuart Dempster and singer Panaiotis in a disused water tank with 45-second reverb. Her musical spirit continues to perpetuate through her ever-growing network of musical collaborators and students.

The Darmstadt Institute is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Dedalus Foundation and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.