For any performer combination. 29 pieces composed in celebration of leap year
and as a response to Composer Challenge by Seattle's Monktail Creative
Music Concern. Any two pieces can be performed together, if desired. When
this option is exercised, take advantage of the two meanings separately and/or
together.
"Each piece must have integrity." — Ryan M.
Underground
Overlays from the Cistern ChapelNew release featuring Dempster on conch shell, trombone and didjeridu. With assistance from Debra Sykes (Tibetan cymbals), Moc Escobedo and Chad Kirby on conches, and nine other trombones, the disc exploits the tonal possibilities of a performance in an underground cistern. This predominantly solo album presents sources for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company commission. This CD has received critical acclaim with extensive articles in Option, In Tune, Billboard and Pulse! "Technically, Dempster is known as a virtuoso trombonist with a knack for pushing the instrument into new horizons. But beyond that, it's time to unmask him for what he's evolved into: a creative composer of major dimensions." Hewell Tircuit, In Tune
Stuart
Dempster In The Great Abbey of Clement VIThe works included on these recordings, Standing Waves and Didjeridervish are improvisatory in nature. There is no score per se but the material is based on Dempster's 15 years of experience with resonance. The recording takes full advantage of the natural 14 second reverberation in the Great Abbey of Clement VI in Avignon, France. The sound has been called "simply extravagant" by Merce Cunningham.
A compilation from performances given November 3-6, 1983, at the Washington Hall Performance Gallery in Seattle. Included are Didjeridervish, using the American indigenous model didjeridu - plastic sewer pipe; Roulette for trombone and audience; Don't Worry, It Will Come, performed with Greg Powers, an installation piece; and JDBBBDJ (John Diamond's Big Beautiful Brass Didjeridu) performed with the audience singing the pitches heard from the didjeridu.
With Deep Listening Band:
Non Stop Flight
Deep Listening
Band recorded live at Mills College 1996 - Music & Arts (CD1030 - 1998).
On September 16th, 1996, Deep Listening Band performed at Mills College in
a four hour and thirty-three minute marathon composed by Pauline and dedicated
to David Tudor. Other participants included the Abel-Steinberg-Winant Trio,
The Hub, and many guest artists. Excerpts from this performance include a
recreation of David Tudor's premier performance of John Cage's 4'33".
Suspended
Music Includes Pauline Oliveros' Epigraphs in the Time of Aids with the Deep Listening Band and , Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument. Recorded at the Candy Factory in Austin TX. - (Periplum P0010 1997). "Best of the year" 1997 Sarah Cahill, Berkeley Express - Berkeley CA (1995)
Item number DLB-CD-5; Compact disc $16.00 OUT OF STOCK
Tosca
SaladA tasty variety of free improvisations excerpted from recordings of Deep Listening Band rehearsals and of the Band in concert. Band members Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and David Gamper are featured exploiting the sonoric and spatial palette of the Expanded Instrument System. Performers Julie Lyon Rose, Fritz Hauser, Urs Leimgruber, Ben Neill, Joe McPhee, Joe Giardullo, Ellen Fullman, Nigel Jacobs and Elise Gould appear as guest artists. A wonderful chronological acoustic essay of the Band's work over the last two years. (1995)
SanctuaryA truly inspiring collection of live performances by Deep Listening Band members Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and David Gamper. Recorded entirely within the acoustically warm sanctuary of Trinity United Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, the Band is joined on several cuts by guest performers including Thomas Buckner, Julie Lyon Balliet, Joe McPhee, Margarit Shenker, Nego Gato, Carol Chappell, Jason Finkleman and Women Who Drum. (1995)
The
Ready Made BoomerangA stunning second release from the Deep Listening Band's foray into the Fort Warden Cistern in 1988. Band members are Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis. Guests include Thomasa Eckert, vocals, and William O. Smith, clarinet. John Cage wrote a mesostic called The Ready Made Boomerang in reaction to his first encounter with the Deep Listening CD. Consequently, the following appears in the liner notes to the Boomerang CD: "It is with continuing admiration and deep thanks that this recording is dedicated to John Cage for his loving inspiration and wholehearted support." (1991)
Troglodyte's
Delight The Deep Listening
Band (Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis)
with guests Fritz Hauser and Julie Lyon Balliette
explore the sound properties of the Tarpaper Cave in Rosendale, New York, in
a special underground series of sessions which followed a concert in the cave.
Pieces include Quarry Query, Cannery Row, After Dinner With The Trogs, among
others. "Alongside awe, a common thread that links this band of intrepid
sound pioneers is that of respect - for each other's musicals minds - and...for
their environment...a respect for the sacred aspect of space." Peter Blum
(1990)
We just received some copies of this item. Please note that, while the CDs
themselves are new, we do not have the original barrel fold covers. The CDs
come unsealed, with a color cover and we will include a copy of the notes.
"The sound is breathtaking: mysterious, pure, eerie
wrap-around sound that sometimes imitates a heavenly chorus and sometimes
a distant jet engine...a listening experience like no other."
Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times
The
Free-Reed Review
Addressed to composers as well as trombonists and teachers, this book is aimed at making all readers aware of the techniques that are idiomatic to the trombone. Each chapter is a unit and is designed to be read separately if desired. The book as a whole is an invitation to experiment with the materials provided and to become thoroughly acquainted with the trombone. Includes recorded examples, now on CD, coordinated with the text.
About this "set of processes" Dempster writes, "The very image of what might be a 'music in motion' (the project under whose auspices Milanda Embracing was composed) occupied me from the very beginning. What has transpired is a collaboratively composed (with Seattle's New Performance Group) set of music processes that comprise the most important and basic tenants of what music, and the performance of a piece, is all about. The notion I have is...to have this be a 'work in process' - quite literally a 'music in motion'."
Award-winning erotic video ballet by Janis Mattox featuring dancers Marci Javril and Riccardo Morrison. The just intonation soundtrack features Good Sound Band members Loren Rush and Janis Mattox (enhanced pianos in just intonation), Sussan Deihim (vocals), Daniel Kobialka (violin), Stuart Dempster (garden hose and didjeridu), Pauline Oliveros (accordion in just intonation), Mel Graves (contrabass), and Tim White (saxophone and flutes). (25 minutes, 1992)
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From 1962-66, Dempster was principle trombone in the Oakland Symphony. Since 1968, he has been on the faculty of the University of Washington. Besides his composing, he is know for his commissioning of new works from the likes of Luciano Berio, Donald Erb, Robert Erickson, Pauline Oliveros, Robert Suderburg, among others. He has recorded* on several labels, including Nonesuch, Columbia and New Albion, and tours regularly throughout the United States and Europe as a solo recitalist. His many grants include a Guggenheim Fellowship and several NEA awards. Through his Sound Massage Parlor, he eases energies and soothes psychic sores. Dempster is a founding member of the Deep Listening Band. *See complete discography of Stuart Dempster on New Albion .
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