Margaret Mikulska wrote:
>Yes, really, REALLY. She's quite well known (for a living composer,
>that is). And since she is (or was: she's 70 now) professor of
>composition at Mills College in CA - one of the best schools for modern
>music - there are certainly quite a lot of people who heard about her.
And really, I should have. Shame on me!
>Well, why don't you all have a look at the web site:
>
> http://www.deeplistening.org/pauline/
Okay. *click click* Very impressive. Ah, looky here!
http://mp3.com/paulineoliveros
The first track is simply excruciating electronic noise. Love it.
Hung on for almost 2 minutes. Second track, "Mills Bog" very pleasant,
ambient sounds. Third track, also from the 60's, more electronics, all
very interesting stuff for what it is, "meditative", very avant-garde,
certainly blurring the line between music and performance art. Hm, here's
a section that sounds a little like construction work at an airport. Cool!
Well, look, Mozart this ain't. But I don't think one can intellectually
justify a statement that this isn't art. Matter of fact, that's *all*
it is! Entertainment it's not. Beauty it's not. I personally think it
qualifies as music, that's debatable. But it's definitely Art. And at
least to me, actually quite enjoyable. I'd rather listen to this than to
hard-core serialism, for instance.
Dave Runnion
http://mp3.com/davidrunnion
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