In September, Song Circus performed two new projects. At the Kapittel Festival, we explored the music of Cornelius Cardew, and at the Norwegian Organ Festival, we premiered Sonic Meditations, a collaboration with organist Nils Henrik Asheim and Britt Pernille Frøholm on the Hardanger fiddle.
We delved into an iconic work by one of the most influential postwar composers, Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016), Horse Sings from Cloud.
Throughout more than 50 years of artistic work, Pauline Oliveros established herself as one of the most influential composers of the postwar period. Her electronic music and theories on sound, silence, and listening (‘Deep Listening’) have garnered particular attention. She was an early adopter of unconventional instruments in her electroacoustic experiments. Alongside her work as a performer and composer, she held numerous teaching roles and professorships in academic circles. Oliveros was the founder of the former Deep Listening Institute, now the Center for Deep Listening. Deep Listening means being attentive to all aspects of the world, not just sounds as we typically define them, where sound waves reach the ear. It involves listening to your inner self and everything around you.
