Exploring Oliveros' Deep Listening Pieces in Classical Performance

This research project explores the outcomes Pauline Oliveros’ (1932¬2016) Deep Listening Pieces (1971–1990) provide classically trained woodwind instrumentalists who engage with them by way of a two-part case study. The works were engaged as performative meditations, preludes and interludes in recital scenarios in order to discover if they influenced learning and performing outcomes for the performer. The Deep Listening Pieces were also engaged to examine tertiary-level classical woodwind instrumentalists with the aim of understanding what outcomes engagement with the Deep Listening pieces might offer other musicians.