Pauline Oliveros - UCSD

UCSD

In 1967, Oliveros left Mills to take a faculty music department position at UCSD. There, Oliveros met theoretical physicist and karate master Lester Ingber with whom she collaborated in defining the attentional process as applied to music listening. Oliveros also studied karate under Ingber, achieving black belt level. In 1973, Oliveros conducted studies at UCSD's one-year-old Center for Music Experiment; she served as the Center's director from 1976 to 1979. In 1981, to escape creative constriction, she left her tenured position as full Professor of Music at UCSD and relocated to upstate New York to become an independent composer, performer and consultant.