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Explore the buildingPauline Oliveros is an influential musician and a pioneering composer of electronic music with her early experiments with recordings on tape and feedback of live music as well compositions involving improvisation and communal performing. For the Whitney Biennial, she is presenting her Deep Listening Room, a sound and video installation centered on her theory that engaged, careful listening can expand consciousness. Using a specially programmed computer, the installation takes the feeds from a surround-sound microphone and video surveillance camera placed in the Museum’s Lobby gallery and transforms them, performing the inputs from visitors’ movements and activities like a musical score. This work is an example of what Oliveros calls an “Expanded Instrument System” which creates an improvisational environment in which players—everyone from trained musicians to the casual observer—manipulate the feedback of the machine, linking the past sounds with the present moment. As Oliveros has said, “what is expanded is temporal—present/past/future is occurring simultaneously with transformations. What I play in the present comes back in the future while I am still playing, is transformed, and becomes a part of the past. This situation keeps you busy listening.”
Pauline Oliveros’s work will be presented on view in the Lobby Gallery. In addition to visitors’ interactions with the Deep Listening Room, members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and Oliveros will accompany the installation. View the calendar for additional information.
Academy Records and Matt Hanner
Terry Adkins
Etel Adnan
Alma Allen
Ei Arakawa and Carissa Rodriguez
Uri Aran
Robert Ashley and Alex Waterman
Michel Auder
Lisa Anne Auerbach
Julie Ault
Darren Bader
Kevin Beasley
Gretchen Bender
Stephen Berens
Dawoud Bey
Jennifer Bornstein
Andrew Bujalski
Elijah Burgher
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna
Paravel, and Sensory Ethnography Lab
Sarah Charlesworth
Critical Practices Inc.
Matthew Deleget
David Diao
Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst
Paul Druecke
Jimmie Durham
Rochelle Feinstein
Radamés “Juni” Figueroa
Morgan Fisher
Louise Fishman
Victoria Fu
Gaylen Gerber with David Hammons,
Sherrie Levine, and Trevor Shimizu
Jeff Gibson
Tony Greene curated by Richard
Hawkins and Catherine Opie
Joseph Grigely
Miguel Gutierrez
Karl Haendel
Philip Hanson
Jonn Herschend
Sheila Hicks
Channa Horwitz
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Susan Howe
Jacqueline Humphries
Gary Indiana
Doug Ischar
Carol Jackson
Travis Jeppesen
Alex Jovanovich
Angie Keefer
Ben Kinmont
Shio Kusaka
Yve Laris Cohen
Chris Larson
Diego Leclery
Zoe Leonard
Tony Lewis
Pam Lins
Fred Lonidier
Ken Lum
Shana Lutker
Dashiell Manley
John Mason
Keith Mayerson
Suzanne McClelland
Dave McKenzie
Bjarne Melgaard
Rebecca Morris
Joshua Mosley
My Barbarian (Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon
and Alexandro Segade)
Dona Nelson
Ken Okiishi
Pauline Oliveros
Joel Otterson
Laura Owens
Paul P.
taisha paggett
Charlemagne Palestine
Public Collectors
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Steve Reinke with Jessie Mott
David Robbins
Sterling Ruby
Miljohn Ruperto
Jacolby Satterwhite
Peter Schuyff
Allan Sekula
Semiotext(e)
Amy Sillman
Valerie Snobeck and Catherine Sullivan
A.L. Steiner
Emily Sundblad
Ricky Swallow
Tony Tasset
Sergei Tcherepnin
Triple Canopy
Philip Vanderhyden
Pedro Vélez
Charline von Heyl
David Foster Wallace
Dan Walsh
Donelle Woolford
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung