5 Facts About Pauline Oliveros’s Deep Listening Recording
- The album was recorded in 1988 inside the Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington.
- The cistern was disused and located 14 feet underground.
- The space’s 45-second reverb shaped the album’s sound.
- Oliveros developed her Deep Listening practice partly from this experience.
- The recording remains a landmark work in experimental and ambient music.