Pauline Oliveros – Two for T (date unknown)

Performed by Catherine Lee (oboe d’amore) and Matt Hannafin (percussion)

Subtitled “for Two Players Sensing Breath and Heartbeat – Waiting and Listening,” this 1970s-era text piece presents performers with ten playing instructions, set up as five pairs of opposites that together form a basic recipe for improvisation: definite pitches / indefinite pitches, together / separately, coming together / drifting apart, play more / play less, extremely fast / extremely slow. Each player is asked to combine these instructions into an unspecified number of short sequences, each of which is represented by a short metaphor describing an action or sound. The content of these sequences may be improvised or pre-arranged, and players are asked to stop, wait, and listen following every sequence, the better to hear an opening into the other’s sound world.

The concert in which this performance appeared was dedicated to Pauline Oliveros near the one-year anniversary of her passing.

Recorded live at the Extradition Series, Portland, Oregon, USA, October 21, 2017.

The Extradition Series presents quarterly concerts of 20th- and 21st-century experimental music, exploring purity, space, sound, and silence.

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Recorded by Tim Westcott

Mixed by Branic Howard / openfieldrecording.com

Photo by Glenn Sogge

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