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“The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].”

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Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros, born on May 30, 1932, was an influential composer and musician from the United States. Her work spanned a wide range of genres, including electronic music, experimental music, and improvisation, and had a profound impact on contemporary music. more

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“In the '60s my friends were interested and we were hearing electronic music coming in on community radio from Europe, so that's where it started. And I had a tape recorder and started making things with it.”

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“The San Francisco Tape Music Centre was a kind of collective non-profit that my friends and I got started so that we could pool our equipment and make tape music.”

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“I felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.”

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“I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.”

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“I think the worst thing is stereotyping.”

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“You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.”

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“All the way from the first thing that I can remember, like our Victrola - a wind-up record player - and my grandfather's crystal radio, and my father's shortwave radio.”

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“Radio broadcasting was only 25 years old when I was born in 1932.”

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“I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.”

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