Michael Ned Holte: Good Listener

Michael Ned Holte is a writer, independent curator, and educator
based in Los Angeles, as well as the Associate Dean for the
School of Arts at CalArts.


He has held exhibitions at the Armory Center for the Arts in
Pasadena, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the
Schindler House, and the Hammer Museum, to name only a few. He
has also written monographic essays on artists including Charles
Gaines, Richard Hawkins, Alice Konitz, Shio Kusaka, Caitlin
Lonegan, Roy McMakin, Steve Roden, Clarissa Tossin, and Shirley
Tse. 


On today’s episode, Stephen Anthony Rawson talks with Michael
about his recent book, Good Listener: Meditations on Music and
Pauline Oliveros. This book is a result of a year-long
performance of Pauline Oliveros’s Sonic Meditation XXI, which
asks the question: “What constitutes your musical universe?”