The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of how to produce it and place it so that it works in a space. The first consideration is adopting the space and having work that resonates in the space.
Pauline OliverosFirst of all I had to teach myself how to use the studio because there wasn't any classes in electronic music. So I'd stay there all night and leave in the morning, observe the sun rise and have a lot of different kinds of sounds in my mind. But it was a quest, it was a search. It was research, it was learning.
Pauline OliverosI felt a challenge to compose music. That's where my challenge was, for the most part.
Pauline OliverosThe sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now.
Pauline Oliveros