Maria Bilbao·Herrera
Sonic Meditation
Wednesday/Miércoles 01.12
20:00h Bcn/15:00h Ccs
Online location:
Zoom Link
The composer, Pauline Oliveros, who passed away in November 2016 at the age of 84, was a legendary composer and pioneer in the progression of groundbreaking experimental electronic, drone, minimalist, and ambient music. Oliveros created “Deep Listening”—works that challenge the lines between performer, audience, and composer.
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“Pauline Oliveros was the beloved, reigning queen of Downtown experimental music since the 1960s,” said Limor Tomer, General Manager of MetLiveArts. “Her practice of ‘Deep Listening’ influenced many composers from John Cage to, well, everyone. To honor her, we will be staging an online version of her gorgeous structured group vocal improvisation, Tuning Meditation.”
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Tuning Meditation (1971) is elegantly simple and forms a bond of community through sound. A stunning and perfectly reflective work, it is a shifting chord-mass incorporating the best intentions of the deep listeners who participate. In this encounter, this vocal piece will be performed by attendees. Our cofounder Maria Bilbao•Herrera will facilitate the performance and orient the participants. It begins with a single pitch and builds as other performers pitch and tune in unison, and contribute new pitches.
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Oliveros instructs participants to: “Inhale deeply; exhale on the note of your choice; listen to the sounds around you, and match your next note to one of them; on your next breath make a note no one else is making; repeat. Call it listening out loud.”
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