Pauline Oliveros - Composer, Teacher, Author

Composer, Teacher, Author

In 1994, Oliveros was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Grants to Artists award.

Oliveros currently teaches at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Mills College. She is openly lesbian.

Oliveros is the author of five books, Sounding the Margins: Collected Writings 1992-2009, Initiation Dream, Software for People, The Roots of the Moment, and Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice.

She recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky.

In 2007, Oliveros received the Resounding Vision Award from Nameless Sound. He was the 2009 recipient of the William Schuman Award, from Columbia University School of the Arts.

She is a patron of Soundart Radio in Dartington, Devon, UK