Name: DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS – LA Premiere!
Start: 2024-07-31T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-07-31T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Philosophical Research Society

DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS – LA Premiere!

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The LA premiere of the captivating documentary about the iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, innovator and humanitarian!

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“Weintraub’s documentary is packed with joy, humanity, and wisdom.” – Wire Magazine The Philosophical Research Society is extremely honored to present the Los Angeles premiere of the acclaimed new documentary about the fascinating and revolutionary Pauline Oliveros –  the iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, innovator and humanitarian.  Daniel Weintraub’s DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS tells the story of one of the world's original electronic musicians, one of the only females amongst notable post-war American composers, a master accordion player, a teacher and mentor to musicians, a gateway to music and sound for non-musicians and a technical innovator who helped develop everything from tools that allow musicians to play together while in different countries to software that enables those with severe disabilities to create beautiful music. On the vanguard of contemporary American music for six decades, her story illuminates the pathway to how we got where we are and where the future will take us in the worlds of music, the philosophy of sound, and the art of listening. “The project had commenced production prior to the composer's passing in 2016, and it uses new and archived interview footage to let Oliveros narrate her own story, covering not only her background and the remarkable progressions of her career, but also her lifelong quest for creative freedom, enhanced awareness and deeper connections with other people and the shared environment through the power of listening. Weintraub makes use of an archive of rare photographs, home movies, hand-drawn scores and signal flow diagrams, excerpts of unheard music, and rare footage from live performances, to assemble an impression of Oliveros that is charmingly funny, wise and profoundly real but without disturbing her essential mystery. We catch glimpses of her in different, playful guises: she's a prizewinning composer of new music, a blackbelt martial artist, spiritual guru, tinkering technologist, mustachioed accordionist in a klezmer band, philosopher, activist, playing with drag and gender, a beautifully complex creator oscillating between extravagant theatrics and quiet introspection…Childhood days in Houston, Texas are recounted almost entirely in terms of sonic memory. Her mother and grandmother both taught piano, her mother also worked as repetiteur for ballet and occasionally composed; In the film, Oliveros describes her matriarchs as "the breadwinners...surviving through something that was one of the few professions that were open to women.”  Queerness emerges as an early theme, not only with early self-realisation of her lesbian identity, but also in her way of perceiving the world, her deep empathy with outsiders, the value of difference and the ideas and sound that don't fit in. Oliveros describes being denied access to compositional training and being routinely condescended to by male teachers and peers at the start of her career. In pictures and footage from the San Francisco Tape Music Center period, it's hard to ignore the fact that Oliveros is often the only woman in the room…The documentary portrays the boundary-smashing exuberance of the SFTMC era with a sense of anarchic humour. She says, "Play is the greatest research tool that humanity has," and the ego-less, collaborative spirit of her pioneering work in the 1960s carries forward as her music becomes even more open and indefinite with her Sonic Meditations at the start of the 70s. …The film shows Oliveros's composing practice increasingly engaging with political and spiritual ideas, tracing prolific decades spent both in and outside academia, working with a vast spectrum of musicians of all levels of ability, researching and developing technologies to assist collaboration and improve access to music making for everyone. What emerges is a clear image of a deeply integrated, profoundly humane creative practice based on attentiveness and inclusion. The film concludes with stunning footage of Oliveros's Sensational Sounds For Hearing And Non-Hearing Performers, led by deaf, first-time conductor Robert Demeter, performed in Bergen, Norway in August 2016, just three months before the composer's death. Deeply moved by the performance, Oliveros told her partner IONE that the moment was "most important in [her] life ... because now I think I know what Deep Listening is" (Wire Magazine) Produced in collaboration with executive producer IONE, Oliveros' partner in life and work, and the Ministry of Maat, Inc. (the holistic non-profit organisation that continues to facilitate Deep Listening retreats and associated group practices), and featuring appearances by Terry Riley, Anna Halprin, IONE, Linda Montano, Laurie Anderson, Thurston Moore, Alvin Lucier, Claire Chase, Miya Masaoka, Morton Subotnick, Tony Martin, Ramon Sender and many more ground- breaking artists, DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS is an intimate and captivating portrait of not just a vitally important artist, but a vitally important human being.  “As Pauline herself said “I never tried to build a career, I only tried to build a community”: As an artist coming of age in the 1950's as a woman who identified as queer, Pauline had to overcome many obstacles placed in front of her by society. She did this largely by always being committed to the idea that, through their art, artists have a responsibility to bring people together. During her life, Pauline built an incredible world-wide community.  DEEP LISTENING: THE STORY OF PAULINE OLIVEROS is not only a film about a crucial piece of American cultural evolution, but a vehicle through which we can continue to expand Pauline's community and its commitment to listening and understanding.” – Director, Daniel Weintraub Dir. Daniel Weintraub, 2022, 1hr 57mins, Unrated, Color, English, Digital. <h3>Tickets: $10 (In Person Event Only)</h3>Please email events@prs.org or phone 323-663-2167 with any questions.

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