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Personnel: Pauline Oliveros (electronics). Liner Note Authors: Guy-Marc Hinant; Andrew Deutsch; Pauline Oliveros . Recording information: Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, (1959-1966); Mills College, Oakland, CA (1959-1966); San Francisco Tape Music Center, San Francisco, CA (1959-1966); San Francisco Tape Music Enter (1959-1966); The Center For Contemporary Music (1959-1966); University Of Toronto (1959-1966); University Of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1959-1966). A pioneering figure of American avant-garde music, composer Pauline Oliveros has led trailblazing paths in experimental music composition and performance. During the `60s, her tenure at the San Francisco Tape Center birthed some of the earliest and most definitive explorations into tape and electronic music. FOUR ELECTRONIC PIECES 1959-1966 collects Oliveros's inaugural explorations into delay- and systems-based composition utilizing variable-speed hand-wound tape recorders, military surplus oscillators, and all manner of self-invented techniques--a cogent reminder of the artistic resourcefulness of electronic musicians during the pre-Moog dawn of sound synthesis.
