Tracks 4, 8, and 12 consist of ensemble recordings with soprano saxophone, Moog bass, and Soundscape fragments. One goal was to preserve the original character of each instrument or environmental sound opposed to making their origin unidentifiable through extensive electronic processing. Indeed in some cases, the lengthy Soundscapes shape the character of the piece, and again I am surprised how often their aleatoric elements tend to fit perfectly into the music. "A Night in Battambang" was written in 1995 while visiting my parents in Cambodia. The piece was performed using the classic rock trio formation of lead instrument, bass and drums when I arranged the song for this CD. "Time to Move On" is based on a Turkish 9/8 rhythm, the Karsilama. Originally, the piece had a theme but in the end, I liked the track better without it. I decided to counterpoint the long, circular-breathed saxophone phrases with abrupt changes for the remaining instruments. The ballad, "Blues Me," started as an experiment while wondering why tenor saxophone ballads are usually slower than alto and soprano saxophone ballads. At 50 beats per minute, this ballad is at the lower end of most Tenor Ballads. Long Soundscape passages were chosen to reflect the lethargy.
Jonas Braasch is a soprano saxophonist, improviser/composer, acoustician and a dedicated collector of binaural soundscapes. He grew up in the Ruhr Area, Germany's cultural melting pot, and Pusan, South Korea. His saxophone style expands the traditional repertoire [in both Classical Music and Jazz idioms] by incorporating various non-western elements, as well as original extended techniques.
Another aspect of his work is the integration of soundscapes and other concrete
elements, a clear reflection of his personal relationship with the environment.
This sensibility has inspired him to create complex synthetic sound fields which
he then integrates into his compositions. To improve the control over the spatial
parameters of these sound fields, he developed a
virtual environment to simulate sound recording techniques based on Virtual
Microphone Control (ViMiC).
Suspended Music Now out on DVD. 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)
Primordial
Lift - Full Version
Brian Willson, percussion; Dominic Duval, bass; Yuko Fujiyama, piano and percussion
THINGS HEARD UNHEARD is the first recording by Brian Willson as a leader.
This recording is a combination of completely free improvisation-no guidelines
whatsoever other than listening-and composed pieces, nothing written, but discussion
of the nature of the work to be performed. Influenced by free jazz of the 60's,
world music, and contemporary, Willson fuses these elements into a diverse amalgam
of improvised music-some pieces are classic free piano, bass and drums, evidence
of the strong Cecil Taylor influence abounds, others are evocative of Eastern
culture utilizing sounds and instruments particular to Tibet, Japan and China,
evoking images of Buddhist ritual. Brian had played with Yuko and Dom individually
and they enjoyed a long friendship collectively, but this was the first musical
meeting of this trio of gifted musicians. The recording is a culmination of
years of performing for Brian Willson.
Item number DL-CD-31; CD $16.00
Deep
Listening: A Composers' Sound PracticeAn exciting guide to ways of listening and sounding. This book provides unique insights and perspectives for artists, students, teachers, meditators and anyone interested in how consciousness may be affected by profound attention to the sonic environment. Written by Pauline Oliveros.
Zanana (za-NAH-nah) is an electro-acoustic chamber music duo featuring
Kristin Norderval, (voice) and Monique
Buzzarté (trombone) collaboratively composing and performing
improvised music blending acoustic sounds, electronics and live processing.
Zanana's inception dates from an all-night peace vigil concert in the fall of
2002 when Kristin invited Monique and poet Barbara
Barg to join her for an evening of improvised music and spoken word.
Since then Monique and Kristin have continued developing repertoire as a live
processing duo, recording and performing in venues ranging from concert halls
to clubs to abandoned buildings. Zanana uses improvisation as the foundation
of their compositional process. While some works are free improvisations, some
are structured improvisations and some are composed works with aleatoric elements,
all are rooted in the expansive practices of Deep Listening. Zanana takes its
name from a variant spelling of "zenana," the portion of a house in
southwestern Asian countries exclusively dedicated to women.
Holding Patterns is a compilation of live recordings selected from
Zanana's first season of performances. Gasholder Duet is an improvised duo
of unprocessed acoustic sounds recorded live inside the historic Gasholder
Building in Troy, NY. Doorjam and Ghost Dog combine live processing of both
the voice and trombone sampled in real-time with prerecorded soundfiles of
ambient recordings made at the Gasholder Building and prerecorded and electronically
processed voice soundfiles. Flags, Title X, and What a Pretty Dog were recorded
live in concert in New York City. Poet Barbara Barg provides the text for
Flags and joins the duo on spoken word on What a Pretty Dog in honor of Monique's
dog Suki, who was accustomed to hearing this phrase regularly from strangers
throughout her life.
"Electrotherapy is a collection of sound pieces based on studio recordings
of early 20th-century electrical devices, including induction coils, a diathermy
machine, an ultra violet ray oscillator, and a sectorless wimshurst machine.
These devices were recorded at close range, and form the basic source material
for all tracks on the CD. Thanks to Pete Barvoets, who kindly allowed me to
record the devices that are part of his private collection." - Scott
Smallwood
Eight decades of women in experimental music. Featuring - Pauline Oliveros,
Mildred Couper, Annie Gosfield, Eleanor Hovda, Beth Custer, Johanna M. Beyer
and Yoko Ono.
Recording
Field, H"Recording Field, H" features several firsts: the first recording bringing together Pauline Oliveros and interface; the first video documentation of interface and their unusual instruments; the first video documentation of the sonic character pieces Streams and Pikapika; the first duo connecting shakuhachi and the bowed-sensor-speaker-array; finally, the first DVD released by Deep Listening Publications.
The odd-numbered tracks are electronic improvisations, created spontaneously
with custom-made instruments. The even-numbered tracks feature Tomie Hahn
as two radically contrasting sonic characters; in "Streams" each
gesture of the dreamlike apparition recalls bodies of water, technology,
a flow of information, transmission, and liquid states; as Pikapika, Tomie
embodies a spunky character influenced by anime, Japanese dance, and bunraku.
In both pieces Tomie wears a sensing device developed by Curtis Bahn. This
interface enables Tomie to negotiate full control of all aspects of the
virtual soundscape structure with her movements.
Pauline Oliveros - accordion and Expanded Instrument System (EIS)
Curtis Bahn - sensor bass
Tomie Hahn - interactive dance system and shakuhachi
Dan Trueman - sensor violin and bowed sensor/speaker array
Deep
Listening Band / Joe McPhee QuartetItem number DL-CD-19; CD $16.00
New
Circle Five
DREAMING
WIDE AWAKE
Monique Buzzarté, trombone; Rosi Hertlein, violin/voice; Susie Ibarra, percussion; Kristin Norderval, voice; Pauline Oliveros., accordion. "Spanning three generations, New Circle Five is an acoustic improvising contemporary music ensemble. Diverse musical backgrounds result in unique twists as the five explore the one-time only sonic environment of collective creative improvisations. On this, their debut recording, New Circle Five perform their unique blend of collective creative improvisations from dreams of a non-violent world."
Item number DL-CD-20; CD $16.00
Evidence
OUT OF TOWN
NEW! Out of Town, the first full-length release by Evidence, features five structured improvisations recorded on stage and in the studio. Based on field recordings made during a road trip during the summer of 2002, each composition explores the acoustic and timbral eccentricities specific to each location. These are sculpted into a mix of rolling ambient planes, textural sound puzzles, articulated noises, and polyrhythmic whirlwinds, revealing and redesigning the microscopic intricacies and larger shapes of the carefully recorded soundscapes.
Item number DL-CD-23; CD $16.00
Pauline
Oliveros
GHOSTDANCE
The long awaited soundtrack of the
Ghostdance music and dance collaboration between Oliveros and Paula Josa-Jones,
commissioned by Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. Performed by: Pauline Oliveros
(accordion/EIS), David Gamper (djembe/EIS) & Julie Lyon Rose (voice/EIS).
"The Expanded Instrument System (EIS) used in this recording is an evolving
electronic sound processing environment dedicated to providing improvising
musicians control over various interesting parameters of electronic transformation
of their acoustic instruments. Performers each have their own setup which
includes their delay and ambiance processors, microphones, signal routing
and mixing, and a computer which translates and displays control information
from foot pedals and switchs."
Item number DL-CD-07; CD $16.00
Pauline
Oliveros
PRIMORDIAL
LIFT
Minimalist composer and founding member
of the Deep Listening Band, Pauline Oliveros is known for creating pulsating
soundscapes and sonic meditations. In these premier recordings, however,
she engages a more aggressive, electric sound with assistance from fellow
minimalists Tony Conrad and Alex Gelencser, and Gastr Del Sol's David
Grubbs. Within a strategic modulation processed through a low-frequency
oscillator, Conrad's violin, Grubbs' harmonium, and Oliveros' signature
accordion drone and enthrall. The guiding metaphor of Primordial Lift
structures the musicians' performances, mirroring the resonate frequency
of the earth and its acceleration from 7.8 to 13hz and beyond. In 1994
the frequency was already at 8.6 and 13hz will be achieved by 2010, at
which point the magnetic fields of the earth will pass through a zero
point and a polar shift will occur. The acceleration from 7.8 to 13hz
is 'Primordial'; 13hz and beyond is 'Lift'
Item number PO-CD-15; CD $16.00 OUT OF STOCK
Diana
Slattery
THE MAZE
GAME
The Maze Game tells the story of a cult of mortal Death Dancers
who, for 2000 years, have kept the immortal Lifers riveted with the brutal
beauty of combat in a maze made of the visual language, Glide. The Dancer
is pitted against an immortal Player, and, though the Dancer may win many
times, the maze game always, eventually, ends in the spectacle of the
Dance of Death. Now, the survival of the game itself is threatened. Dancemaster
Wallenda and the four young Dancers of the Millennium Class battle Joreen,
the drug lord plotting to regain control of the game. Wallenda is forced
by Joreen to reveal the dark secrets of the maze game¹s origin, at
the risk of destroying his students¹ commitment to Dance. But the
greatest force undermining the game is love. The young Dancer Daedelus
must choose between the delicate T¹Ling, willing to die for love,
and the fiery MyrrhMyrrh, who would kill for it. The cyborg, Angle, struggles
with the longing to replace his human flesh and the knowledge that cold
chrome repels the warmth of human touch. As they train for and compete
in the Millennium Games, each Dancer confronts the shifting faces of love
and idealism, and comes to terms with the meaning of the maze game and
the Dance of Death.
Neil
Rolnick
FISH LOVE THAT
With Todd Reynolds, violin; Andrew Sterman, woodwinds; Ron Horton, trumpet;
Neil Rolnick, keyboards; Steve Rust, bass; Dean Sharp, drums
The core of this project has been the idea of letting a way of working develop over time. FISH LOVE THAT came together for a concert in New York City every month between September 1996 and June 1998, first at the Knitting Factory, and then at HERE. Since then, we have played several times a year. To keep the focus on freshness and improvisation, we don't rehearse a lot. We get together for an hour or two before each concert, and generally go over new material, but only enough to know how it's put together. We don't actually try to rehearse a full performance. Instead, we try to keep the focus sharply on the performance itself, with the audience listening while we explore the musical ideas.
Although I wrote all the music for the first concerts, other
players started to bring in pieces for the band from very early on. Andrew
Sterman, Steve Rust and Todd Reynolds all jumped right into the heart of the
concept, putting together charts which challenge us to play freely and imaginatively
together, but which give us a structure and focus which keep the individual
pieces unique. When we're playing well, it seems to me that we find an exciting
musical landscape -- one with coherent melodies, driving meters and harmonies,
but with the ability to be transformed and shaped fluidly. It's not jazz.
It's not "free" improvisation, but neither is it "composed
music." It's somewhere in between.
Timeless
Pulse
George Marsh (percussion)
Pauline Oliveros (accordion)
David Wessel (computer realized sound)
Jennifer Wilsey (percussion)
Formed in 1993 in a residency at the Deep Listening Institute, the musicians of Timeless Pulse make music together through listening and responding in the moment. This CD is an unedited recording of a concert at CNMAT on Sunday, March 10, 2002.
Norman
Lowrey
In Parallel: Dreaming into Alternate Universes for Singing Masks
& Electronics
with text by Fred Alan Wolf
Recorded in performance at Ione's 5th Annual Dream Festival, Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY, October 14, 2000. Juxtaposing passages from theoretical physicist Fred Alan Wolf's Parallel Universes (Simon & Schuster, 1988) with recordings made over the years of a wide variety of things ranging from frogs in New Mexico to the soundscape at the corner of 46th and Broadway in NYC, In Parallel is a ceremony guided by the Singing Masks which invites the participants to use sound triggers to dream into alternate universes.
Item number DL-CD-24; CDR $16.00 OUT OF STOCK
Norman
Lowrey Recorded in performance at Ione's Sixth Annual Dream Festival, Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY, October 6, 2001. The accompanying soundscape for DreamWeaving consists of recordings of over 50 dreams submitted to Ione's Dream Festival Dream Sack and to the Deep Listening Institute Deep Listening listserv, together with recordings made of birds in a woods in western New York state. The audience was invited to contribute dreams at any time during the live presentation. The Singing masks sound along with this tapestry of communal dreaming, guiding and translating the dreamscape into their language of ceremonial dreamtime.
Item number DL-CD-25; CDR $16.00 OUT OF STOCK
Norman
Lowrey Recorded live in concert, F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater, Drew University, Madison, NJ , April 23, 2001. The accompanying soundscape here consists of recordings made a various sites on the Delaware River together with a transformed sounding of Pauline Oliveros' poem Humayun's Tomb, which is about the mind of sound. The text was processed using granular synthesis and "folded" into river sounds to make a somewhat human-sounding voice seem like another of the river's many complex voices. Various masks function as guides along this sonic journey into the intelligence of River and Sound itself.
Item number DL-CD-26; CDR $16.00 OUT OF STOCK
Scott
Smallwood
Desert Winds : Six Windblown
Sound Pieces and Other Works
Desert Winds is a series of six compositions based on the field recordings
made in the Wendover/Great Salt Lake Desert Region on the Utah/Nevada border.
As a sound artist who utilizes field recordings, I initially was concerned about
the high desert winds causing technical difficulties for me. However, I soon
discovered that the desert wind was one of the most interesting assets to me
in my quest for finding interesting objects/sites to record. The sounds recorded
were all produced by the wind.
Item number DL-CD-17; Compact Disc $16.00 ![]()
Carrier
Band
Automatic
Inscription of Speech Melody
The Carrier Band was formed in 1998 when Pauline Oliveros,
Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch performed 3 improvisations at Alfred University
and later released the Carrier CD on DL. The title piece 'Automatic Inscription
of Speech Melody' is a trio improvisation by Carrier Band based on quotes
written in the technical notebooks (1934-1949) of pioneering electronic instrument
developer Harald Bode. The piece weaves words and phrases excerpted from the
notebooks spoken and vocoded by Peer Bode through the Bode Vocoder. The vocoder
transfers speech onto pitched sounds and the VOICE releases the CARRIER sounds.
These texts, along with Pauline's electronic sounds created on her Difference
Box were mixed with loops and excerpts of Harald Bode's demo tapes and synthesized
sounds constructed by Deutsch. The LFO drone heard at the beginning was Pauline's
entrance into the piece. 'Earth Orbit' is a quartet improvisation which Dick
described as being 'the most fun he's ever had performing' loops and text
from Harald Bode's notebooks were once again used along with data sets generated
by Deutsch."
Item Number DL-CD-16; Compact disc $16.00
STRAYLIGHT
Straylight is an ambient, avant world trio featuring Jason
Finkelman (berimbau, percussion), Geoff Gersh (guitar) and Charles Cohen (Buchla
Music Easel). Dedicated to the art of improvised music, Straylight's members
have been performing concerts and theater works since 1993. Their Knitting
Factory concert series Straylight Dialogues explored the languages of improvised
music with many artists across the genre including Pauline Oliveros, Joe McPhee,
Brian Ritchie, J.D. Parran, Burton Greene, DJ Olive, and Bradford Reed. They
received a New York Dance and Performance Award, a Bessie, for composing the
music for Cynthia Oliver's SheMad (2000). Their debut release, Straylight,
on the Deep Listening label features a live concert recorded at the Knitting
Factory.
SPRINGS
Duos and solos by Pauline
Oliveros (accordion) and Andrew Deutsch (electronics, modified television,
bells) remixed by Andrew bearing in the mind this quote from Pauline's Software
for People
"Unity through variety - variety through unity. Elements: Similarity of the sounds (unity), the transient swirling of leaves, the static nature of the foundation (variety).... How can unity dominate without destroying variety and vice versa? How can the two principles illuminate each other?....."This CD in a limited edition of 400 with individual tray bottom inserts including hand made and collaged elements. Produced in cooperation with the Institute for Electronic Arts.
Pauline Oliveros in the Arms of Reynols
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