E15S1FINAL - Pauline Oliveros: Gendered Listening and Technology

This podcast discusses many themes in relation to texts we have read during this semester. Technological expertise in relation to gender is a constant thread. I discuss how Oliveros views technology as disruptive to patriarchal systems that dominate many forms of music, focusing on a piece of hers from 1965 called “Bye Bye Butterfly” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wrNL063Gys). I then discuss Oliveros’s feminist writings and subtle changes between her ideas in 1965 and 1998. I end by discussing how technology informs Oliveros’s practice of “deep listening,” both in her own performances and in an attempt to increase accessibility of music composition to everyone, especially women and disabled people.