Emerald City Music | Pauline Oliveros's 'Sound Meditations'

Emerald City Music

Saturday, November 9, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)

Capital High School Performing Arts Center, Olympia, Washington, USA

$39-$49 ($10 student)

Pauline Oliveros — Pauline's Solo
Pauline Oliveros — String-utopia for violin and cello
Pauline Oliveros — Buffalo Jams
Pauline Oliveros — Sonic Meditations (selections)

Emerald City Music celebrates the life and music of Pauline Oliveros, the pioneer of "deep listening" and "sonic awareness." This meditative evening, curated and hosted by cellist Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, will combine live performance, film, and an interactive audience experience. Pauline Oliveros' life was about opening her own and others' sensibilities to the universe, influencing American music profoundly through improvisation, meditation, and technological exploration. She was one of the original members of The San Francisco Tape Center – a significant resource for electronic music in the 1960s – and a founding member of the Deep Listening Band, which was formed in 1988 in Port Townsend, Washington. The concert program will include video segments from an Oliveros documentary that explains her concept of music; performances of her compositions by Thorsteinsdóttir, Kristin Lee, violist Melia Watras, and percussionist Bonnie Whiting; along with group activities of meditation.

Emerald City Music is the Pacific Northwest home for eclectic, intimate, and vibrant classical chamber music experiences. Known for a casual environment combined with award winning artists, ECM has gained recognition since its founding in 2015. With the season's theme of "Global Resonance," Emerald City Music invites audiences to experience the world's diverse musical sounds through fifteen vibrant concerts this season.

2 performances of this program:
- Friday, November 8, 8pm at 415 Westlake in Seattle
- Saturday, November 9, 7:30pm at the Minnaert Center for the Arts in Olympia

About Bonnie Whiting, percussion

Bonnie Whiting (she/her) performs, improvises, and composes new music for percussion. Exploring intersections of storytelling and experimental music, her work is often cross-disciplinary, integrating text, music, movement, and technology. Her debut album, featuring a solo-simultaneous realization of John Cage's 45' for a speaker and 27’10.554 for a percussionist was released by Mode Records in 2017, and her second album, Perishable Structures, launched on the New Focus Recordings label in 2020. Whiting is a core member of the Seattle Modern Orchestra and she has performed with the country’s leading new music groups: Ensemble Dal Niente, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, and red fish blue fish percussion group. Bonnie uses Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, and she is Chair of Percussion Studies and the Ruth Sutton Waters Associate Professor of Music at the University of Washington.

http://www.bonniewhitingpercussion.com