Documentary, dir. Daniel Weintraub, US, 2022, 120mins, o.v.

‘Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros’ tells the tale of the iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, technological pioneer and humanist Pauline Oliveros. She was one of the world’s first electronic composers, the only woman in the first generation of great post-war American composers, a master accordion player, teacher and mentor to musicians. She was also a technical innovator who helped develop tools that enable musicians to play together over a distance and software that enables people with severe disabilities to create beautiful music.

“Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening, I finally know what harmony is… It’s about the pleasure of making music.”  - John Cage, 1989

“Weintraub's film, which largely allows Oliveros herself to tell her story and explain her discoveries and ideas through recorded interviews that are peppered with commentary from her peers (Riley, Morton Subotnick) and disciples (Thurston Moore), is never at odds with the central tenets of the Deep Listening ethos. In fact, it leaves the viewer not only wanting to explore her music further, but to pay more attention to the sounds around them—something the composer no doubt would have appreciated.” - Chronogram