NATCHITOCHES – The School of Creative and Performing Arts at Northwestern State University will present “Oliverosfest! A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros” on Wednesday, March 4 at 5:30 p.m. in Magale Recital Hall. NSU faculty member Collier Hyams will do a pre-concert lecture at 5 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. A livestream of the concert will be available at www.nsu.la/CAPA-LIVE.
Featured musicians will be Carlos Diaz Del Valle on violin, Paul Christopher on cello and Karla Gonzalez Bueno on piano.
Pauline Oliveros was an American composer and accordionist. Considered a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music, she was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center in the early 1960s and served as its director. She taught music at Mills College, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Oliveros authored books, formulated new music theories and investigated new ways to focus attention on music including her concepts of “deep listening” and “sonic awareness,” drawing on metaphors from cybernetics.