Pauline Oliveros was a composer, performer, and humanitarian whose career spanned fifty years of boundary dissolving music making. She founded Deep Listening Institute, formerly Pauline Oliveros Foundation, now the Center For Deep Listening at Rensselaer in Troy, NY.
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In the '50s she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, poets gathered together in San Francisco. In the 1960's she influenced American music profoundly through her work with improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual.

