Starting points

An exceptional recording of “The Well & The Gentle” with Oliveros and Relache, the Philadelphia new music ensemble she wrote it for, came out as a two-LP set in 1984 on hatART. It has never been transferred to CD or digital, but a kind soul has uploaded it to YouTube. Alternative performances can be found on Vimeo and Soundcloud.

An engrossing introduction to Oliveros can be found on Nadia Sirota’s podcast, “Meet the Composer,” which includes a performance, recorded in binaural sound, of “Tuning Meditation” that is far lovelier than what the April event I mentioned could accomplish on Zoom.