web01.fireside.fm Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:29:23 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Weird Studies - Episodes Tagged with “Composers” https://www.weirdstudies.com/tags/composers Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0400 Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." en-us episodic Art and philosophy at the limits of the thinkable Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality." yes weird, art, philosophy Phil Ford and J. F. Martel admin@weirdstudies.com Episode 42: On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O'Brien https://www.weirdstudies.com/42 0412bb7a-c2e3-482d-994a-675ed848133b Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0400 Phil Ford and J. F. Martel 42 On Pauline Oliveros, with Kerry O'Brien full Phil Ford and J. F. Martel Music scholar Kerry O'Brien join Phil and JF for a conversation on the work of American composer Pauline Oliveros. 1:03:42 yes In the mid-1960s, Pauline Oliveros was a composer of experimental electronic music. But at the end of the 1960s, shocked by the political violence around her, she turned away from electronic technology and towards to a different kind of experimentation, which Dr. Kerry O'Brien calls "experimentalisms of the self." The immediate result of this turn was Oliveros's Sonic Meditations, a series of instructions for group bodymind practice. This work became the seed of Deep Listening, a sort of musical yoga Oliveros developed throughout the rest of her long career. Dr. O'Brien joins JF and Phil for a conversation on practice, "gaining mind," the ritual value of art, the wisdom of the body, and whether Deep Listening is really best understood as art at all. REFERENCES Kerry O'Brien, "Listening as Activism: The 'Sonic Meditations' of Pauline Oliveros" (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/listening-as-activism-the-sonic-meditations-of-pauline-oliveros) Pauline Oliveros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Oliveros), American composer John Cage, 4'33" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3) Dead Territory performing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGEG4JiOqew) Cage's 4'33" Alvin Lucier, "Music for a Solo Performer" (http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2017/05/alvin-lucier-music-for-solo-performer) Peter Sloterdijk, [You Must Change Your Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouMustChangeYourLife) Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/benjamin.pdf) Lawrence Weschler, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520256095/seeing-is-forgetting-the-name-of-the-thing-one-sees) Special Guest: Kerry O'Brien. pauline oliveros, sonic meditations, kerry o'brien, experimental music In the mid-1960s, Pauline Oliveros was a composer of experimental electronic music. But at the end of the 1960s, shocked by the political violence around her, she turned away from electronic technology and towards to a different kind of experimentation, which Dr. Kerry O'Brien calls "experimentalisms of the self." The immediate result of this turn was Oliveros's Sonic Meditations, a series of instructions for group bodymind practice. This work became the seed of Deep Listening, a sort of musical yoga Oliveros developed throughout the rest of her long career. Dr. O'Brien joins JF and Phil for a conversation on practice, "gaining mind," the ritual value of art, the wisdom of the body, and whether Deep Listening is really best understood as art at all.

REFERENCES

Kerry O'Brien, "Listening as Activism: The 'Sonic Meditations' of Pauline Oliveros"
Pauline Oliveros, American composer
John Cage, 4'33"
Dead Territory performing Cage's 4'33"
Alvin Lucier, "Music for a Solo Performer"
Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Lawrence Weschler, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Special Guest: Kerry O'Brien.

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REFERENCES

Kerry O'Brien, "Listening as Activism: The 'Sonic Meditations' of Pauline Oliveros"
Pauline Oliveros, American composer
John Cage, 4'33"
Dead Territory performing Cage's 4'33"
Alvin Lucier, "Music for a Solo Performer"
Peter Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Lawrence Weschler, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees

Special Guest: Kerry O'Brien.

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