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SnowFlow: Pauline Oliveros (Audio)

Feb 12, 2011
Recorded and webcast live by Sam Sebren and Tom Roe.

On February 12, 2011 at the Full Moon resort in Big Indian, NY, a variety of organizations and individuals interested in creativity and sustainability gathered and collaborated for a weekend of events combining art, music, food from local farms, and outdoor activities like shelter building and snowshoeing, to create a forum to bring attention to peak water and peak foodshed issues. Suzanne Thorpe curated a thought-provoking evening of performances which were recorded and broadcast live by Sam Sebren and Tom Roe for free103point9 and WGXC.

Pauline Oliveros composer, performer and humanitarian is an important pioneer in American Music. Acclaimed internationally, for four decades she has explored sound -- forging new ground for herself and others. In performance Oliveros uses an accordion which has been re-tuned in two different systems of her just intonation in addition to electronics to alter the sound of the accordion and to explore the individual characteristics of each room.