Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening

Source: Far Out.

The world of avant-garde and experimental music is one which is hard to describe succinctly. Within the massive cultural sphere of experiential music, there are countless musicians all trying to achieve something vastly different. Generally speaking, experimental composition often exists in order to generate innovative new sounds and challenge the status quo of what music should be. In the case of avant-garde composer Pauline Oliveros, she was striving to change not just the sounds we listen to but how we listen to them.