Listen to full live sets from 12 "Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain" performances via Red Bull Music Academy Radio. Featuring Pauline Oliveros, Charlemagne Palestine, Oren Ambarchi, Anthony Coleman, Richard Youngs, David Grubbs, Francesco Tristano, Aki Onda, No-Neck Blues Band, Yasunao Tone, and Tony Conrad.
Pauline Oliveros has left a profound imprint American music through her decades of work in improvisation, electronic music, teaching, and meditation. Tonight Oliveros returns to ISSUE with the large ensemble work "Primordial Lift". Olivia Block premieres "Dissolution", a solo meditation on communicative disruption.
Steve Smith in the New York Times on ISSUE’s "Pauline Oliveros 80th Birthday Celebration", June 1, 2012. The event featured performances by Olivers herself, Miguel Frasconi, Fast Forward, Anmari Wili and more.
The fourth annual Darmstadt “Classics of the Avant Garde” Institue celebrates all of June as the ersatz new music history month in New York and draws on a wide variety of experimental approaches from the canon and current practice.
Darmstadt celebrates Pauline Oliveros’ 80th birthday with a program celebrating Oliveros’s diverse body of work and a handful of her valued collaborators, including Swiss pianist Anmari Mëtsa Yabi Wili, Jason Hwang, Alex Waterman, Fast Forward, Jim Alteri, and Miguel Frasconi.
Through extended engagement with new forms of electronic technology, the works of Oliveros, Radigue and Spiegel exhibit innovative and intuitive processes that rethink concepts of musical perception and redefine the traditionally hierarchical roles of performer/listener, professional/amateur, and musician/non-musician.
The second performance and NYC premiere of Pauline Oliveros’ 1998 "Primordial/Lift," featuring Oliveros and performers from the original studio recording: Andrew Deutsch, Anne Bourne & David Grubbs. Followed by Robinson's "Billows," a twelve-section piece for basset horn and a reactive electronic environment.
This event celebrates both the participating musicians of the Relay - NYC and local improvising musicians, by offering them and the public an opportunity to meet, play music, eat and drink in the beautiful ISSUE Project Room.
Celebrating the launch of Deep Time, a new 2 CD set from Deep Listening with Fritz Hauser on percussion, David Gamper on keyboard/electronics, and Pauline Oliveros on accordion.