This workshop offers a collective exploration of the histories, materials, and social concerns that shaped Pauline Oliveros’ work with the Sonic Meditations and other facets of her practice. Our experience will illuminate the Meditations through archival materials and explore connections between sound and voice with ecology, embodiment, and justice in our contemporary historical moment. Participants can expect to create collective experiments with voice and sound in museum spaces.

No experience with music will be presumed! As Oliveros says herself in the introduction to the Meditations, “no special skills are necessary.”

RSVP also includes free admission to the Museum and our special exhibition, For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability. We encourage attendees to arrive early to get refreshments from The Kitchen before entering.