Tracing voice through the career of a musical pioneer: A conversation with Pauline Oliveros

Bell, Gelsey; Oliveros, Pauline

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“…In her book, Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice, Oliveros outlines twentyfour deep listening pieces, or Sonic Meditations that date back to 1974 111 when she started doing meditations alone at her home. She began by singing long tones, listening to them, and making discoveries about what there was to listen to (Bell 2017). She calls her sonic meditations, "attention strategies" that she describes as "nothing more than ways of listening and responding in consideration of oneself, others and the environment" (Oliveros 2005, 29).…”

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Seeking Awareness of Our Selves and the Environment Through Vocal Improvisation in The Singing Field

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In this dissertation, I explore vocal improvisation as a practice of listening awareness.Stemming from my background as a vocalist, music therapist, and educator, I examine the use of the voice when singing in place as a way to change perceptions of the self and the environment.Building on Stephen Feld's theory of acoustemology, Nina Sun Eidsheim's discussion about voice and music as intermaterial practices, and R. Murray Schafer's theory of theatre of confluence, I consider how singing in place can be a way of knowing by listening to the intermateriality between our bodies and the places in which we sing. I explore these ideas through an improvisational performance practice that I call "environmental vocal exploration (EVE)." Through autoethnographic, ethnographic and research-creation methodologies, this dissertation revolves around a project entitled The Singing Field: A Performance of Environmental Vocal Exploration. This project required a summer-long commitment from five singers who joined me in six EVE performances in various locations.Through interviews, debriefs, and journal writing, the performers considered their experiences and shared their perspectives with me. We used vocal improvisation as our primary way to interact with different environments and with each other. To analyze our experiences, I developed the concepts of "environmental countertransference," "environmental vocalist," and "xeno-song."The Singing Field performances were filmed by Hasi Eldib of Carleton University and audio recorded by sound technician John Rosefield. In addition to providing audio-visual data for analysis, the resulting film, titled The Singing Field: A Performance of Environmental Vocal Exploration, is one of the three main outputs of this research-creation project, one being the performances themselves, another being the film, and the third being this dissertation. 100310735_Oddy_N iii Through autoethnography, fieldwork, and analysis of data, I show that singing with listening awareness in place can create a relationship between self and place, leading to a new awareness and attunement to both. 100310735_Oddy_N iv AcknowledgementsThere are so many I wish to thank whose support was invaluable leading up to and during the completion of this research.My committee members: Professor Jesse Stewart, thank you for your endless patience and support and for being there right from the beginning before I even applied to the program.Knowing that you have had my back throughout this process has been invaluable. To professor Ellen Waterman for helping me with the difficult phase of writing a dissertation proposal, for including me in your dissertation support group, for your constant support and feedback, for helping me to make so many connections with other scholars and students. Thanks to professor Yana Meerzon for your support, for so generously inviting me into your classroom to learn about the world of the dramaturge and into the world of The Canadian Association of Theatre Research. I would also like to thank professors Laur...

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Seeking Awareness of Our Selves and the Environment Through Vocal Improvisation in The Singing Field

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