News & Updates — Pauline Oliveros

We recently lost Pauline Oliveros, pioneering electronic and meditative music composer, educator and accordionist. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, founded in 1962 alongside Morton Subotnick, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and others. A native of Houston, she started playing accordion as a young child, deciding pretty quickly that music would be her life. She played French horn and tuba as well and started working with musique-concréte in the mid-'50s. She later re-tuned her accordion and added digital electronics to her set up. Her early electronic works from the late '60s, Alien Bog and Beautful...