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| | Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932, Houston, Texas, USA - died November 25, 2016) was an American composer, performer and author.
In the early 1960's, Oliveros, along with and , formed the , and there, she began her pioneering work with electronics and tape. In performances, Pauline Oliveros used an accordion which had been re-tuned and the sound altered with the aid of electronics. Throughout the years, she developed the Extended Instrument System (EIS), a sophisticated setup of digital signal processors designed for use in live performances. Examples of her use of the system can be heard on recordings by the . Her early electronic works appear on a pair of CD's: Alien Bog/Beautiful Soop (Pogus, 1997) and Electronic Works (Paradigm, 1998). |
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