DAVID DUNN

Music, Language and Environment

A three-part collection of works (spanning the years 1973-1990) exploring various issues of sound, language and environmental interaction. Includes site-specific works, linguistic compositions, and experiments in inerspecies communication.

Item number DD-S-1; Folio of scores (12 works, 47 pages) $30.00
Item number DD-W-1; Essays $25.00
Item number DD-CD-1; Compact disc OUT OF STOCK

 

 

Angels & Insects

This work is comprised of two experimental pieces which emerge from an ongoing curiosity about the phenomenon of communication in its broadest context. They work to link music, language and environmental sound. Tabula Angelorum Bonorum 49 is a suite of pieces for computer-expanded voices based on the mystical investigations of the Elizabethan astrologer, alchemist and mathematician, John Dee, and psychic medium Edward Kelly. The second piece, Chaos & the Emergent Mind of the Pond, was recorded in freshwater ponds around North America and Africa. It is an audio collage of the sounds generated by microscopic aquatic insects.

Item number DD-CD-2; Compact disc $14.50
Item number DD-C-1; Cassette tape $9.00



Four Electro-Acoustic Compositions

Composer and sound artist David Dunn was born in 1953 in San Diego, California. From 1970 to 1974 he was assistant to the American composer Harry Partch and remained active as a performer in the Harry Partch Ensemble for over a decade. He has worked in a wide variety of audio media inclusive of traditional and experimental music, installations for public exhibitions, video and film soundtracks, radio broadcasts, and bioacoustic research.
Item number POGUS-CD-8; Compact disc $16.00



The Lion in which the Spirits of the Royal Ancestors Make Their Home

Environmental sounds and music of Zimbabwe, Africa presented as a continuous collage of African vernacular reality.

Compact disc OUT OF STOCK

Mhondoro Dzemidzimu

A 33 minute video tape exploring metaphors of spirit and ecology using sounds and images collected in Zimbabwe, Africa.

Item number DD-V-1; Video (VHS) $25.00

Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond on The Aerial: Issue #2

Also includes works by Bob Davis & Jon Ruskin, Jin Hi Kim, Jeff Greinke, Christopher Shultis, Chris Cochrane, Sue Ann Harkey, Annea Lockwood, Trans Duo and Hildegarde Westerkamp.

Item number COMP-CD-4; Compact disc $16.00   OUT OF STOCK
Item number COMP-C-2; Cassette tape $8.00

Three Works by David Dunn

Item number DD-MD-1; Mini-disc $40.00
Vol. II Item number DD-MD-2; Mini-disk $40.00

 

David Dunn

Fusing the disciplines of bioacoustics, linguistics, chaos theory, deep ecology, computer technology and musical composition, Santa Fe resident David Dunn has spent the last fifteen years exploring the relationships between music, environmental sound and language. He brings to this endeavor a broad background: violinist (contemporary and early music), electronic designer (San Diego State University electronic music studio, Ars Electronics Exhibit), music theorist (assistant to Harry Partch), and composer.

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