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- Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros recorded live on October 5, 2008 at the opening of The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.
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Oct 5, 2008 · October 5, 2008 Pauline Oliveros recorded live on October 5, 2008 at the opening of The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute…
Oct 5, 2008 · Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros recorded live on October 5, 2008 at the opening of The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. During this concert Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros each performed solo and as a duet.
- San Francisco Tape Music Center and Wow & Flutter, 2004
- EMPAC's Opening —Pauline Oliveros and Cecil Taylor, 2008
- Oliveros at 80, 2012
- Pauline and Laurie Anderson, 2013
- Pauline and Tarek Atoui, 2015–16
In her early career, Pauline had been one of the founding members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, a seminal west-coast studio for electronic music and intermedia art productions between 1961 and 1966. The first festival EMPAC ever programmed took place in 2004 with Pauline and some original members of the center—Morton Subotnick, Ramon Send...
At EMPAC’s opening in October 2008, Pauline performed with free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor as part of the opening festival. Each one performed a solo set and both joined for a duo. That same year, Pauline and collaborators Jonas Braasch and Doug Van Nort received an NSF grant for A Robust Distributed Intelligent System for Telematic Music Applicatio...
In May 2012, EMPAC celebrated Pauline’s 80th birthday with a concert featuring Tibetan dungchen, didgeridoo, accordion, meditative percussion, and an electronic recreation of the Fort Worden Cistern—a two-million gallon underground water tank made famous by her 1988 Deep Listeningalbum.
In May 2013, Pauline joined artist Laurie Anderson to perform a live improvisation during an evening of screenings of Anderson’s film work. And in August of that year, she took part in Before the Music Starts, a colloquium on time-based arts with Susanna Bolle, Benjamin Nelson, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Miki Kaneda, Lawrence Kumpf, Mark Lewis, Rober...
In the fall of 2015, Pauline and one of her classes collaborated with EMPAC artist in residence Tarek Atoui on newly designed instruments capable of performing both sonic and tactile music for the hearing and hearing-impaired. In May 2016 she joined Tarek in a performance of his Withinproject in the lobby spaces of EMPAC. Throughout her time at Ren...
Solo. Duo. Poetry. features a collaboration between Taylor and Pauline Oliveros, who was a professor at the Polytechnic in New York. It documents the pair playing solo plus a 22 minute duo meditation marking the first time they performed together.
Taylor and Oliveros are two of America’s most unique musical voices— both internationally renowned as improvisors, composers, and philosophers-of-sound. As part of EMPAC’s opening celebration, they will each perform as soloists, and then together for the first time in the Concert Hall.
Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros perform at EMPAC in Troy NY, 2008. To mark Taylor and Oliveros's passing, EMPAC is offering a free DVD of their solo and duo performances (one need only pay for shipping and handling).
Cecil Taylor + Pauline Oliveros Solo. Duo. Poetry. includes both performers' solo sets, their duet improvisation, as well as Floating Gardens: The Poetry of Cecil Taylor, and footage of the EMPAC Opening Festival, which ran October 3–10, 2008.
