Susan Alcorn began playing the pedal steel guitar over 25 years ago, and in that time has evolved into a musician/composer of such rare inspiration that her music has redefined, for many, the very perception of the instrument itself.

As a child in the 1950's and 1960's she was surrounded by the big-band music that her parents listened to as well as the pop music that blared on her radio. She picked up the guitar when she was thirteen, and soon began playing slide guitar (inspired in particular by Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson and Son House) and dobro (her favorites were Mike Auldridge, Josh Graves, and Tut Taylor). A few years later, she began playing the pedal steel guitar and performed regularly with country-western bands in Texas.

Although Alcorn's initial work with pedal steel focused on the styles of the players usually associated with it - namely, country and western swing, she was at the same time profoundly influenced by John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and 20th Century classical composers such as Messaien, Penderecki, and Piazzolla. By the late 1980s, after performing straight-ahead jazz for ten years, she took the advice of Paul Bley, with whom she had been corresponding; she "threw away the real book" and began to develop a truly distinct approach to the instrument - one that incorporates jazz, minimalism, Gamelan Music, Indian Classical music, the folk music of Latin America, to name but a few of the catalysts.

Although Susan Alcorn typically plays solo, she has collaborated in performance with electronic composer Pauline Oliveros, German bassist Peter Kowald, and multi-instrumentalist Eugene Chadbourne. "Uma", her debut CD, was released on the US label Loveletter Recordings in the summer of 2000, and a CD of recordings with Chadbourne, "Texas Music", was released on Chadbourne's own imprint soon afterward. Ms. Alcorn currently resides in Houston, TX

David Arner (piano, harpsichord, percussion) is a long time proponent of innovative music and spontaneous composition. While well known for his solo work, Arner is also actively working with bassists Michael Bisio and Adam Lane, saxophonist Avram Fefer, cellist Tomas Ulrich and percussionist Jay Rosen. He has also collaborated with poets Chuck Stein and Mikhail Horowitz, and choreographer Susan Osberg. Arner has performed throughout the country for more than 30 years, including many performances at the Knitting Factory (in the 1990s), and more recently at the Center for Performing Arts (Rhinebeck) and Deep Listening Space. He has also pioneered a re-vitalization of new music for silent film for many years.

Lisa Barnard is a vocalist, writer and performance artist. She has honed her skills over the years in acting, movement, stage direction/design, puppetry, jazz/free improvisation and sound production which she experiments with in performances including elements of spoken work, vocalization, masks, music and movement. She dedicates her craft to exploring the open field of vocal expression from within and through the guidance of her mentors.

Barnard is a student of Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and studies dream work and Egyptian mythology/divination with Ione and Andrea Goodman, recently traveling in 2004 to Southern Italy to study the Black Madonna and ancient temples of Sicily. Recently, Barnard has completed projects with Pauline Oliveros for a commissioned film score Maquilapolis and participated as Kingston, NY Coordinator for Robert Whitman’s media project Local Report. Lisa performs frequently with Linda Montano and co-created the band Brothelkin with lyricist Bob Lavaggi and guitarist Ian Turner. Currently, Barnard is collaborating with Al Margolis developing a multi-media performance piece, MutaMYTHeatre’s Three Songs in Search of a Voice: a noh(t)opera.

Nancy Beckman began studying the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) at Meianji Zen temple in Kyoto where she learned the traditional solo Zen Buddhist repertoire and received her license to teach. She studied shakuhachi and ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University and later used photography, shakuhachi, and Japanese language in site-specific performance art pieces. Currently based in Berkeley, California, she teaches the solo shakuhachi repertoire as a spiritual practice. She is also a Certified Music Practitioner in the Music for Healing and Transition Program. She performs with Tom Bickley in the ensembles Cardew Choir, Gusty Winds May Exist, and Dream Down Duvet (also with Viv Corringham).

Tom Bickley (recorder + electronics + voice) listens to the world always hoping to hear more and more fully. He grew up in the semitropical soundscape of Houston, sojourned in Washington, DC
(studying music, religion, and information science) and came to California as a composer in residence at Mills College. In Berkeley he lives and sings at Incarnation Priory (an Episcopal Benedictine community), teaches privately, at the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training and on the library faculty at California State University East Bay. He plays with shakuhachi player Nancy Beckman as Gusty Winds May Exist and directs the Cornelius Cardew Choir.

Tom Bickley (recorder + electronics + voice) listens to the world always hoping to hear more and more fully. He grew up in the semitropical soundscape of Houston, sojourned in Washington, DC
(studying music, religion, and information science) and came to California as a composer in residence at Mills College. In Berkeley he lives and sings at Incarnation Priory (an Episcopal Benedictine community), teaches privately, at the Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training and on the library faculty at California State University East Bay. He plays with shakuhachi player Nancy Beckman as Gusty Winds May Exist and directs the Cornelius Cardew Choir.

Anne Bourne is a composer, cellist and vocalist. She has performed and recorded internationally with many artists in creative music genres including Jane Siberry, Fred Frith eric chenaux, Copyright, Tom Cora, Sarah MacLachlan, Susie Ibarra, and Joelle Leandre among others. Anne has created scores for film and dance with Peter Mettler, Atom Egoyan, Andrea Nann and Michael Ondaatje. Anne first met Pauline Oliveros when she was invited to perform a distance concert with The Deep Listening Band in New York and groups in Paris and Toronto, in 1994. She then participated in the Rose Mountain Retreats for the years that followed until the milleneum shift. Bourne performed Oliveros' Primordial Lift recorded for TotE with Oliveros, Tony Conrad and David Grubbs. Anne was a participant in the DL Opera at Lincoln Centre with her young daughter Willa. Current recording called dearness, with John Oswald and Fred Frith on Spool. Anne improvises with dwct, Quorum, and Eve Egoyan. Anne "is an earthy, unrestrained musical force, she accompanies her cello with otherwordly vocalizing" - CODA magazine

Anne Bourne is a composer, cellist and vocalist. She has performed and recorded internationally with many artists in creative music genres including Jane Siberry, Fred Frith eric chenaux, Copyright, Tom Cora, Sarah MacLachlan, Susie Ibarra, and Joelle Leandre among others. Anne has created scores for film and dance with Peter Mettler, Atom Egoyan, Andrea Nann and Michael Ondaatje. Anne first met Pauline Oliveros when she was invited to perform a distance concert with The Deep Listening Band in New York and groups in Paris and Toronto, in 1994. She then participated in the Rose Mountain Retreats for the years that followed until the milleneum shift. Bourne performed Oliveros' Primordial Lift recorded for TotE with Oliveros, Tony Conrad and David Grubbs. Anne was a participant in the DL Opera at Lincoln Centre with her young daughter Willa. Current recording called dearness, with John Oswald and Fred Frith on Spool. Anne improvises with dwct, Quorum, and Eve Egoyan. Anne "is an earthy, unrestrained musical force, she accompanies her cello with otherwordly vocalizing" - CODA magazine

Jonas Braasch is an acoustician, musicologist, and sound artist who teaches courses in Acoustics, Music, and the Doctoral Seminar at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He obtained a master's degree from Dortmund University (Germany, 1998) in Physics and two PhD degrees from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany (2001, 2004) in Electrical Engineering/Information Science and Musicology. Mr. Braasch is the co-founder and director of the Communication Acoustics and Aural Architecture Research Laboratory (CA3RL) which is part of RPI's Architectural Acoustics Program. His research interests include Binaural Hearing, Multi-channel Audio Technology, Telematic Music Systems, Perceptual Audio/Visual Integration, Intelligent Systems, and Musical Acoustics. Jonas Braasch (co-)authored more than 60 journal and conference papers and 3 monographs. For his work, he has received funding from the NSF, NSERC, DFG (German Science Foundation), and NYSCA.

As a soprano saxophonist and sound artist, he has on-going collaborations with Curtis Bahn, Chris Chafe, Michael Century, Mark Dresser, Pauline Oliveros, Doug van Nort, and Sarah Weaver - among others.

Wendy Jeanne Burch is a poet and singer/performer, published internationally, with her Masters degree in Creative Writing. She has performed with poetry, movement, and voice in various venues with other artists, including her late husband composer/performer Joe Catalano, Pauline Oliveros, Marianne Tomita-McDonald, Toyoji Tomita, Erika Rogers, and others. Her most recent book is Traffic Prayers, with CD, and is available through the Deep Listening Catalog.

Wendy also is an animal and people psychic communicator, and a Reiki Master; she owns two pet related businesses, and is a sculptor/artist. She lives with her partner, Jon Steel, and her puppy, birds, fish and snake in the beautiful Oakland Hills of California.

Monique Buzzarté is active in new music circles as a trombonist/composer. Honored as a "Soloist Champion" by Meet the Composer, she will be a featured performer in their 2007-08 season. Recent recordings include Zanana's Holding Patterns and the New Circle Five's Dreaming Wide
Awake (Deep Listening) along with John Cage's Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode). She designed and developed a slide-mounted interactive live processing system for the trombone. Her advocacy work led to the admission of women into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997. 1999 DLI Certificate Recipient.

Monique Buzzarté is active in new music circles as a trombonist/composer. Honored as a "Soloist Champion" by Meet the Composer, she will be a featured performer in their 2007-08 season. Recent recordings include Zanana's Holding Patterns and the New Circle Five's Dreaming Wide
Awake (Deep Listening) along with John Cage's Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode). She designed and developed a slide-mounted interactive live processing system for the trombone. Her advocacy work led to the admission of women into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997. 1999 DLI Certificate Recipient.

Raylene Campbell is an accordionist, improviser, composer, performance artist, audio/video artist, sound designer, teacher, and Deep Listening Instructor. Raylene is currently based out of Montreal, Canada and has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY. Raylene’s creative process involves explorations of acoustic ecology, psychogeography, architecture (acoustic and social spaces), computer interactive technology, and audience interactivity in both performance and installation environments. Raylene often collaborates with other musicians, composers, performers, and artists of multitudinous disciplines.

Raylene Campbell is an accordionist, improviser, composer, performance artist, audio/video artist, sound designer, teacher, and Deep Listening Instructor. Raylene is currently based out of Montreal, Canada and has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, NY. Raylene’s creative process involves explorations of acoustic ecology, psychogeography, architecture (acoustic and social spaces), computer interactive technology, and audience interactivity in both performance and installation environments. Raylene often collaborates with other musicians, composers, performers, and artists of multitudinous disciplines.

In Memory 

Abbie Conant received her Bachelor´s Degree (cum Laude) from Temple University in 1977. In 1976 she studied at Yale University, and in 1979 she received her Master´s Degree from the Juilliard School, followed by a Meister diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany in 1984. From 1979 to 1980 she was solo trombonist of the Royal Opera of Turin, Italy. From 1980 to 1993 she was solo trombonist of the Munich Philharmonic.

The International Trombone Association Journal has featured Abbie Conant in a cover article and described her as "in the first rank of world class trombonists". She has recorded a highly acclaimed CD of trombone and organ music and performs internationally as a concerto soloist, recitalist, improviser and performance artist. This work has taken her to most of the large state theaters in Germany, where she hasperformed to great critical and public acclaim. In addition, in recent years she has performed as a soloist in over 60 American cities.

In 1992 the Baden-Würtenburg State Ministry for Education, in recognition of her international reputation as a trombonist, named her full tenured Professor of Trombone at the esteemed Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany. In 1996 the 4200 members of the International Trombone Association elected her as their President elect. In August of 1998 she was the first woman to serve as a judicator for the International Trombone Competition in Geneva, Switzerland.

Her involvement with Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening have supported her compositional talents and have resulted in a series of music theater works concerning the Holocaust which have been performed in Germany to large audiences with critical success. For her most recent project, entitled "The Wired Goddess and her Trombone", she is working with composers to create works for computer and trombone based on the theme of the goddess.

Abbie Conant received her Bachelor´s Degree (cum Laude) from Temple University in 1977. In 1976 she studied at Yale University, and in 1979 she received her Master´s Degree from the Juilliard School, followed by a Meister diploma from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne, Germany in 1984. From 1979 to 1980 she was solo trombonist of the Royal Opera of Turin, Italy. From 1980 to 1993 she was solo trombonist of the Munich Philharmonic.

The International Trombone Association Journal has featured Abbie Conant in a cover article and described her as "in the first rank of world class trombonists". She has recorded a highly acclaimed CD of trombone and organ music and performs internationally as a concerto soloist, recitalist, improviser and performance artist. This work has taken her to most of the large state theaters in Germany, where she hasperformed to great critical and public acclaim. In addition, in recent years she has performed as a soloist in over 60 American cities.

In 1992 the Baden-Würtenburg State Ministry for Education, in recognition of her international reputation as a trombonist, named her full tenured Professor of Trombone at the esteemed Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany. In 1996 the 4200 members of the International Trombone Association elected her as their President elect. In August of 1998 she was the first woman to serve as a judicator for the International Trombone Competition in Geneva, Switzerland.

Her involvement with Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening have supported her compositional talents and have resulted in a series of music theater works concerning the Holocaust which have been performed in Germany to large audiences with critical success. For her most recent project, entitled "The Wired Goddess and her Trombone", she is working with composers to create works for computer and trombone based on the theme of the goddess.

Viv Corringham is a British vocalist and sound artist, currently based in Minnesota, who has worked internationally since the early 1980s. Articles about her work can be found in Organised Sound (UK), Musicworks (Canada), and For Those Who Have Ears (Ireland). She received an MA Sonic Art with Distinction in 2001 from Middlesex University, England, and has had many awards, including a McKnight Composer Fellowship for 2006. Most recent works appeared in Art Colony, Grand Marais MN, Women in New Music Festival, Fullerton CA, Spark Electronic Music Festival Minneapolis MN, Rochester Art Center MN, Soundworks Festival, Cork, Ireland, and Midsummer Festival, Cobh, Ireland.

Viv Corringham is a British vocalist and sound artist, currently based in Minnesota, who has worked internationally since the early 1980s. Articles about her work can be found in Organised Sound (UK), Musicworks (Canada), and For Those Who Have Ears (Ireland). She received an MA Sonic Art with Distinction in 2001 from Middlesex University, England, and has had many awards, including a McKnight Composer Fellowship for 2006. Most recent works appeared in Art Colony, Grand Marais MN, Women in New Music Festival, Fullerton CA, Spark Electronic Music Festival Minneapolis MN, Rochester Art Center MN, Soundworks Festival, Cork, Ireland, and Midsummer Festival, Cobh, Ireland.

In 2004 Caterina became Australia's first certified Deep Listener. Her eclectic artistic forte uses improvised vocals, pilgrimage field recordings, performance art, video and meditation.
Caterina has been noted for uncanny transformations of unique industrial spaces into aesthetically beautiful multimedia community events that were an unlikely fusion of Buddhist pilgrimages, local history and the Haudenosaunee teachings of peace. Given her extraordinary vocal range, she has a particular affinity with birdsong and performed at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh and at Central Park Tropical Aviary in Manhattan. She studies and performs Tibetan Buddhist sacred dance and ritual music in its traditional context. At Washington's largest correctional complex, she regularly visits one inmates' Buddhist group.

In 2004 Caterina became Australia's first certified Deep Listener. Her eclectic artistic forte uses improvised vocals, pilgrimage field recordings, performance art, video and meditation.
Caterina has been noted for uncanny transformations of unique industrial spaces into aesthetically beautiful multimedia community events that were an unlikely fusion of Buddhist pilgrimages, local history and the Haudenosaunee teachings of peace. Given her extraordinary vocal range, she has a particular affinity with birdsong and performed at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh and at Central Park Tropical Aviary in Manhattan. She studies and performs Tibetan Buddhist sacred dance and ritual music in its traditional context. At Washington's largest correctional complex, she regularly visits one inmates' Buddhist group.

Stuart Dempster, Sound Gatherer - composer/performer/author; University of Washington Professor Emeritus; various fellowships and grants including Fulbright and Guggenheim; numerous recordings including New Albion’s "Abbey", "Cistern Chapel"; landmark book “The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms” published 1979; Merce Cunningham Dance Company commission in 1995. Besides Cathedral Band performances, he is founding member of Deep Listening Band. Dempster soothes aches, pains, and psychic sores with his meditative and playful “Sound Massage Parlor”; “Golden Ears Deep Listening Certificate” awarded in 2006.

Stuart Dempster, Sound Gatherer - composer/performer/author; University of Washington Professor Emeritus; various fellowships and grants including Fulbright and Guggenheim; numerous recordings including New Albion’s "Abbey", "Cistern Chapel"; landmark book “The Modern Trombone: A Definition of Its Idioms” published 1979; Merce Cunningham Dance Company commission in 1995. Besides Cathedral Band performances, he is founding member of Deep Listening Band. Dempster soothes aches, pains, and psychic sores with his meditative and playful “Sound Massage Parlor”; “Golden Ears Deep Listening Certificate” awarded in 2006.

In Memory 

Philip Gelb began studying shakuhachi while a senior in College at the University of Florida where he recieved a BA in anthropology. His first shakuhachi teacher was Dr. Dale Olsen bai-o who introduced him to kinko ryu shakuhachi playing. He also studied Meian Ryu shakuhachi with Ronnie Nyogetsu Seldin and Kurahashi Yoshio. His traditional shakuhachi studies have concentrated on Honkyoku, the solo Buddhist repetoire. In addition he always had a very strong interest in new and experimental music and improvisation.

Philip Gelb attended graduate school at the Florida State Universtity School of Music studying ethnomusicology. While at FSU, he founded and directed the New World Ensemble. As director of this ensemble he was responsible for holding several artists in residences which included: George Lewis, Richard Teitelbaum, Wadada Leo Smith, Davey Williams, Derek Bailey, Ladonna Smith, Shaking Ray Levis and Lawrence "Butch" Morris. The Butch Morris residency culimnated in a cd that was released on New World/Countercurrents as part of Butch's 10 cd box set. The group also collaborated with several other great musicians including: Kazue Sawai, Jill Burton Gustavo Matamoros, Scott Walton, David Durant and Dana Reason. The New World Ensemble continues today at the FSU School of Music though it has been several years since any of its founding members were there.

Heloise Gold lives in Austin Texas. She is a performing artist, choreographer, dancer , t’ai chi/chi gong instructor and co-founder of Art from the Streets (a project for homeless artists). She has been co-leading deep listening retreats with Pauline Oliveros and Ione since their inception in 1991.

Originally from NYC, she trained in ballet since the age of 4 and as a young teen performed with the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets during their early visits to the US. In her early 20’s her interests shifted to experimental forms. She studied and performed with Robert Wilson, Simone Forti and was a member of Quena Company (an experimental open theatre ensemble). Gold moved to Austin in 1978 and performed and toured with the Deborah Hay Dance Company for 5 years. In 1980 she started creating her own full length works. Her love of ritual, improvisation, collaboration, social issues, comedy and the absurd always play a big part in her pieces.

Heloise is the recipient of many grants from the City of Austin, the Texas Commission for the Arts and a new forms initiative from the NEA.

Heloise Gold lives in Austin Texas. She is a performing artist, choreographer, dancer , t’ai chi/chi gong instructor and co-founder of Art from the Streets (a project for homeless artists). She has been co-leading deep listening retreats with Pauline Oliveros and Ione since their inception in 1991.

Originally from NYC, she trained in ballet since the age of 4 and as a young teen performed with the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets during their early visits to the US. In her early 20’s her interests shifted to experimental forms. She studied and performed with Robert Wilson, Simone Forti and was a member of Quena Company (an experimental open theatre ensemble). Gold moved to Austin in 1978 and performed and toured with the Deborah Hay Dance Company for 5 years. In 1980 she started creating her own full length works. Her love of ritual, improvisation, collaboration, social issues, comedy and the absurd always play a big part in her pieces.

Heloise is the recipient of many grants from the City of Austin, the Texas Commission for the Arts and a new forms initiative from the NEA.

Scot Gresham-Lancaster is a composer, performer, instrument builder and educator. He is dedicated to research and performance using the expanding capabilities of computer networks for musical and cross discipline expression.

Scot Gresham-Lancaster studied with Philip Ianni, Roy Harris, Darius Milhaud, John Chowning, Robert Ashley, Terry Riley, "Blue" Gene Tyrany and Jack Jarret among others. He has been a composer in residence at Mills College. At STEIM in Amsterdam he has been doing ongoing work to develop new families of controllers. He has toured and recorded as a member of the HUB. He has performed the music of Alvin Curran, Pauline Oliveros, John Zorn, and John Cage, under their direction, and worked as a technical assistant to Lou Harrison, Iannis Xenakis, David Tudor among many others.

Edith Gutierrez is a pianist and composer from Houston, Texas. She was born in 1914 and grew up in a musical family where her mother was a musician and piano teacher. With her second husband, Patricio Gutierrez, she established Greenbriar Music Studios in 1951, where she was a private piano instructor for 15 years. She has continued teaching following the death of her husband. Express Theater, based in Houston has commissioned Gutierrez to write and compose three music theater works since 1991, the most recent of which, Pocahontas, will premiere in June of 1994. She is a member of Professional Musicians Association, American College of Musicians, Houston Music Teachers Association, Inc., Texas Music Teachers Association, and Music Teachers National Association. For the 1993 season she was the resident pianist at Kuumba House, a summer fine arts program in Houston.

Janet Hammock, composer and pianist, was born in 1942 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She holds an Artist Diploma from the University of Toronto, and both Master and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Yale University. She has studied music at the Banff School of Fine Arts, in New York City on a Canada Council Grant, and at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. Her performances of solo and collaborative piano music have been presented across Canada, in the United States, and in Europe. She has often commissioned other Canadian composers, including, most recently, Michael Miller, Ann Southam and Alasdair MacLean, to write works for her to premiere. Her recitals have been broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and by Radio Canada.

After teaching at the university level for 31 years, Janet took an early retirement in 2001 and was appointed Professor Emeritus of Music at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. Recent performances have included several imaginative collaborative recitals of poetry and piano music with colleague Dr. Robert Lapp: The Sights and Sounds of Childhood and Celebrating the Romantic Spirit in Poetry and Music. Together with Lapp she presented a paper entitled Performing Byron: Alongside Liszt, Chopin and Keats at the 2004 International Byron Conference: Byron and the Romantic Sublime. They are currently developing a series of performances and lectures designed to illuminate the nocturne in 19th and 20th century piano music, poetry and painting. Nocturne performances are planned Eastern Canada and the United States between August 2007 and April 2008.

Pauline Oliveros has long been an influence on Janet's creative work since their first meeting in the mid-60's. Since that time, she has taken workshops with Oliveros in Newfoundland while at Sound Symposium, and completed three Deep Listening Retreats with Oliveros, Ione, and Heloise Gold at Rose Mountain, New Mexico. After becoming a Certified Deep Listening practitioner, Janet created and taught a university course designed for both music and non-music majors - Sonic Explorations - rooted in the practice of Deep Listening. Her teaching also opens “earlids” through the use of innovative listening exercises developed by the world-renowned Canadian acoustic ecologist, educator and composer, R. Murray Schafer. In her lectures, demonstrations and workshops Janet skillfully adapts listening strategies to specific groups of individuals in various professions and life stages. Most recently, in July 2006 at New Brunswick’s Festival by the Marsh, teens and adults participated together in her DL workshop whimsically titled Sirius Listening in the Year of the Dog! She has been invited to conduct two Deep Listening sessions in May, 2008 at Podium 2008, Choral Waves - Ondes Chorales, the national conference of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors.

Janet Hammock, composer and pianist, was born in 1942 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She holds an Artist Diploma from the University of Toronto, and both Master and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Yale University. She has studied music at the Banff School of Fine Arts, in New York City on a Canada Council Grant, and at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. Her performances of solo and collaborative piano music have been presented across Canada, in the United States, and in Europe. She has often commissioned other Canadian composers, including, most recently, Michael Miller, Ann Southam and Alasdair MacLean, to write works for her to premiere. Her recitals have been broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and by Radio Canada.

After teaching at the university level for 31 years, Janet took an early retirement in 2001 and was appointed Professor Emeritus of Music at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. Recent performances have included several imaginative collaborative recitals of poetry and piano music with colleague Dr. Robert Lapp: The Sights and Sounds of Childhood and Celebrating the Romantic Spirit in Poetry and Music. Together with Lapp she presented a paper entitled Performing Byron: Alongside Liszt, Chopin and Keats at the 2004 International Byron Conference: Byron and the Romantic Sublime. They are currently developing a series of performances and lectures designed to illuminate the nocturne in 19th and 20th century piano music, poetry and painting. Nocturne performances are planned Eastern Canada and the United States between August 2007 and April 2008.

Pauline Oliveros has long been an influence on Janet's creative work since their first meeting in the mid-60's. Since that time, she has taken workshops with Oliveros in Newfoundland while at Sound Symposium, and completed three Deep Listening Retreats with Oliveros, Ione, and Heloise Gold at Rose Mountain, New Mexico. After becoming a Certified Deep Listening practitioner, Janet created and taught a university course designed for both music and non-music majors - Sonic Explorations - rooted in the practice of Deep Listening. Her teaching also opens “earlids” through the use of innovative listening exercises developed by the world-renowned Canadian acoustic ecologist, educator and composer, R. Murray Schafer. In her lectures, demonstrations and workshops Janet skillfully adapts listening strategies to specific groups of individuals in various professions and life stages. Most recently, in July 2006 at New Brunswick’s Festival by the Marsh, teens and adults participated together in her DL workshop whimsically titled Sirius Listening in the Year of the Dog! She has been invited to conduct two Deep Listening sessions in May, 2008 at Podium 2008, Choral Waves - Ondes Chorales, the national conference of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors.

Hayman composes and performs music with voice, instruments, electronics and effects for concert, theater, dance, media events, film and video. Born in 1951 in New Mexico, Hayman studied at Columbia University and with John Cage, Chou Wen-chung, Peter Kotik and Philip Corner. His works have been presented in venues across the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has many broadcast credits and his writings have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He was a founding senior editor of Ear Magazine of new music. He is also sinologist and consultant in Chinese cultural affairs.

Brenda Hutchinson is a composer and sound artist whose work is based on the cultivation and encouragement of openness in her own life and in those she works with. Hutchinson encourages participants to experiment with sound, share stories, and make music. Brenda also improvises on a 9 1/2 foot tube with a gestural interface she designed. She has been an artist in residence at San Quentin Prison, Headlands Center for the Arts, Harvestworks, Exploratorium, Ucross and Djerassi. She is the recipient of the Gracie Allen Award from American Women in Radio and Television and has received support from the NEA, Lila Wallace, McKnight Foundation, and NYSCA and Meet the Composer among others. Recordings of her work are available through TELLUS, Deep Listening, O.O. DISCS, Frog Peak Music and Leonardo Music Magazine. Brenda will drive cross-country for any reason.

Artistic Director

IONE is an author, playwright and director, & spoken word performer, whose seminal work, Pride of Family; Four Generations of American Women of Color, (a New York Times Notable Book) was published in a classic edition by Doubleday/Broadway Books. (October 2004). Recorded
Books published the audio book of Pride of Family in 2006.

Other publications include Listening in Dreams and This is a Dream, (Deep Listening Publications, 2005). She is the Playwright and Director of the play Njinga the Queen King, and the Dance Opera Io and Her and the Trouble With Him, both with music and sound design by Pauline Oliveros. Both works are soon to be released on DVD by Deep Listening Publications. As a Spoken Word and Sound Artist she has collaborated with artists in numerous locations throughout the world. She sent her text and voice to the surface of the moon in 1998 as a part of composer Pauline Oliveros' Echoes from the Moon. She is a practicing psychotherapist who directs international programs for women through the Ministry of Maat, Inc. Ione is also the Artistic Director of Deep Listening Institute, Ltd.

Marc Jensen is a composer, performer, and improviser, who recently received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of Minnesota. Much of his work is oriented around composing relationships rather than specific sounds - setting up situations in which performers follow simple sets of rules to interact and produce an unpredictably complex whole, structures without content. His principle teachers have included Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, and Alex Lubet. Jensen holds a teaching certificate through the Deep Listening Institute, and has edited several books on Deep Listening. As well as directing the Oklahoma Composers Association, he is an active performer with the improvisation ensemble earWorm. He has published articles in the journals Perspectives of New Music, Tempo, 1/1, the Musical Times, and Cinema Journal.

Marc Jensen is a composer, performer, and improviser, who recently received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of Minnesota. Much of his work is oriented around composing relationships rather than specific sounds - setting up situations in which performers follow simple sets of rules to interact and produce an unpredictably complex whole, structures without content. His principle teachers have included Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Fred Frith, and Alex Lubet. Jensen holds a teaching certificate through the Deep Listening Institute, and has edited several books on Deep Listening. As well as directing the Oklahoma Composers Association, he is an active performer with the improvisation ensemble earWorm. He has published articles in the journals Perspectives of New Music, Tempo, 1/1, the Musical Times, and Cinema Journal.

Kathy Kennedy is a sound artist whose practice generally involves the voice and issues of interface with technology, often using telephony or radio. She is also a singing teacher, choral director and arranger, and a community artist living in Montreal, and is a founder of the digital media center for women in Canada, Studio XX. Her large scale sonic installation/performances for up to 100 singers and radio, called "sonic choreographies," have been performed internationally including the inauguration of the Vancouver New Public Library and at the Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Series. This year's HMMM performance piece in Montreal involved several thousand hummers along the city's main street.

Kathy Kennedy is a sound artist whose practice generally involves the voice and issues of interface with technology, often using telephony or radio. She is also a singing teacher, choral director and arranger, and a community artist living in Montreal, and is a founder of the digital media center for women in Canada, Studio XX. Her large scale sonic installation/performances for up to 100 singers and radio, called "sonic choreographies," have been performed internationally including the inauguration of the Vancouver New Public Library and at the Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Series. This year's HMMM performance piece in Montreal involved several thousand hummers along the city's main street.

Norman Lowrey is a mask maker/composer, Chair of the Music Department at Drew University with Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. He is the originator of Singing Masks, which incorporate flutes, reeds, ratchets and other sounding devices. He has presented Singing Mask ceremony/performances at such locations as Plan B and SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe New Mexico, Roulette and Lincoln Center in New York, and at the site of pictograph caves outside Billings, Montana. His most recent work has been making virtual versions of his masks for use by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse online in Second Life.

"Musical imagination (and all art as far as I'm concerned) begins with listening. The Deep Listening Institute is doing work which is at music/art's heart. It's at the core of my life/work. To quote Keith Jarrett, "It's all about listening... and being ready.""

Norman Lowrey is a mask maker/composer, Chair of the Music Department at Drew University with Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. He is the originator of Singing Masks, which incorporate flutes, reeds, ratchets and other sounding devices. He has presented Singing Mask ceremony/performances at such locations as Plan B and SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe New Mexico, Roulette and Lincoln Center in New York, and at the site of pictograph caves outside Billings, Montana. His most recent work has been making virtual versions of his masks for use by the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse online in Second Life.

"Musical imagination (and all art as far as I'm concerned) begins with listening. The Deep Listening Institute is doing work which is at music/art's heart. It's at the core of my life/work. To quote Keith Jarrett, "It's all about listening... and being ready.""

Active since 1984 under the If, Bwana name, making music that has swung between fairly spontaneous studio constructions and more process-oriented compositions. Ran the cassette label Sound of Pig Music in the 1980s and co-founded and continues to run the experimental music label Pogus. Plays bass guitar in the long-lasting, legendary punk/post-punk band The Styrenes. Recordings of his work have been released on the Tellus, Anckarstrom, Ants, Absurd, GD Stereo, Odradek, Monochrome Vision, and Pogus labels. Recent projects have included a sound art commission by WDR Koln, a collaboration with video artist Katherine Liberovskaya on "Take-off", which has been shown internationally, and the premiere of "Three Songs in Search of a Voice", a "nohtopera" with MutaMYTHeatre - music by Margolis and text and voice, Lisa Barnard.

Dominique Mazeaud's passion is to put her art in service of her community and beyond. In interactive performances like “The Point of Tears” created for her 'peace through culture' tour of Colombia in 2001 and 2002, “The Sorry Book Traveling Shrine” for Peace Day in 2006 or “The Priestess of Generosity” created for the Network of Spiritual Progressives' Generosity Sunday in 2007, she creates spaces for a deep listening to the heart. Since 1979, her calling has been to find “the spiritual in art” and her journey hence has centered on uncovering the meaning of the word 'heartist.'

Dominique Mazeaud's passion is to put her art in service of her community and beyond. In interactive performances like “The Point of Tears” created for her 'peace through culture' tour of Colombia in 2001 and 2002, “The Sorry Book Traveling Shrine” for Peace Day in 2006 or “The Priestess of Generosity” created for the Network of Spiritual Progressives' Generosity Sunday in 2007, she creates spaces for a deep listening to the heart. Since 1979, her calling has been to find “the spiritual in art” and her journey hence has centered on uncovering the meaning of the word 'heartist.'

Kimberly A. McCarthy, Ph.D., M.M. first met Pauline Oliveros in 1979 via a one paragraph description in “Grout,” the canon of classical music history. The second meeting occurred at a conference in 1984. McCarthy zombied up to Pauline and said “This…is…an...important…meeting.” Pauline quickly looked for the nearest exit, all too familiar with the groupie psyche. In 1991 Kim was crabby. She didn’t want to go to the concert. In a huff she plopped down in the dark, third-tier seat. But something caught her eye. It was a head. Seated before her. There was…something…familiar. Shock and excitement set in as in this chance event Kim realized it was Pauline Oliveros. THIS WAS A SIGN!

Kimberly A. McCarthy, Ph.D., M.M. first met Pauline Oliveros in 1979 via a one paragraph description in “Grout,” the canon of classical music history. The second meeting occurred at a conference in 1984. McCarthy zombied up to Pauline and said “This…is…an...important…meeting.” Pauline quickly looked for the nearest exit, all too familiar with the groupie psyche. In 1991 Kim was crabby. She didn’t want to go to the concert. In a huff she plopped down in the dark, third-tier seat. But something caught her eye. It was a head. Seated before her. There was…something…familiar. Shock and excitement set in as in this chance event Kim realized it was Pauline Oliveros. THIS WAS A SIGN!

Brigitte Meyer (1954)
I am a dl-certificate holder and live in St.Gallen, Switzerland.
I consider myself an improviser in life and in music making (cello and voice)
In my work with people as a counsellor, director or mentor, listening is part of my daily job. Recent collaborations took or take place with Christine Zehnder-Probst (musician); Andrea Graf (author), Helen Davey (musician).
I play in various bands, who have nice names like “Spieltrieb East”; “Bunte Hörschlaufen and “Cantastrozzi” CD: “Work in Progress”; Instant Composings for Cello and Voice (2005)

Brigitte Meyer (1954)
I am a dl-certificate holder and live in St.Gallen, Switzerland.
I consider myself an improviser in life and in music making (cello and voice)
In my work with people as a counsellor, director or mentor, listening is part of my daily job. Recent collaborations took or take place with Christine Zehnder-Probst (musician); Andrea Graf (author), Helen Davey (musician).
I play in various bands, who have nice names like “Spieltrieb East”; “Bunte Hörschlaufen and “Cantastrozzi” CD: “Work in Progress”; Instant Composings for Cello and Voice (2005)

Stephan Moore is a composer, audio artist, and sound designer in New York City. He has graduated from from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Western Michigan University, and Interlochen Arts Academy. His creative work centers around the collection and use of real-world sound, the creation and perception of sonic environments, and technological manifestations of improvisation and interactivity.

Recent performances and installation artworks make use of a large multi-channel array of his hemispherical speakers. He performs regularly as half of the electronic duo Evidence, and with a variety of musicians, live-video artists, and dancers. He has created custom music software for a number of composers and artists, and has taught courses in sound art and electronic music at Maryland Institute College of Art, Peabody Conservatory, Massachusetts College of Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Simon's Rock College of Bard.

He is currently the Sound Supervisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Brooklyn-based composer Michelle Nagai utilizes sound, physicality and concept to create site-specific performances, installations, radio broadcasts, dances and other interactions that address the human state in relationship to its setting. Recent creative projects incorporate through-composed and improvised music for acoustic instruments and electronics, as well as natural environments, found objects, video, costumes, texts and structures fabricated from a variety of media. In addition, she has developed a number of web-based projects centered on the topic of soundwalking. Nagai’s work has been presented throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She has been supported by the American Composers Forum, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Meet the Composer and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Nagai is a founding member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology and holds a teaching certificate from the Deep Listening Institute.

Brooklyn-based composer Michelle Nagai utilizes sound, physicality and concept to create site-specific performances, installations, radio broadcasts, dances and other interactions that address the human state in relationship to its setting. Recent creative projects incorporate through-composed and improvised music for acoustic instruments and electronics, as well as natural environments, found objects, video, costumes, texts and structures fabricated from a variety of media. In addition, she has developed a number of web-based projects centered on the topic of soundwalking. Nagai’s work has been presented throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She has been supported by the American Composers Forum, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Meet the Composer and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Nagai is a founding member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology and holds a teaching certificate from the Deep Listening Institute.

Kenta Nagai is a sound and visual artist based in New York City. He works with acoustic and electronic sound, visual media and live performance.
After completing undergraduate studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston (BA, 1996) Nagai moved to New York City. He began his NY career as a fretless guitarist playing on the streets, in subway stations and at clubs. His most recent compositional work, entitled Long, Long, Long, is an ensemble piece for traditional Asian instruments. It was presented at Roulette, in NYC, in October 2006. Nagai is also a featured performer on two recordings by the composer Laura Andel, "Somnambulist" (Red Toucan Records, May 2003, RT9322) and "In::tension:" (Rossbin Records, October 2005, RS022). As a performer on the shamisen, a traditional Japanese string instrument, Nagai has appeared in numerous concerts at venues including Sculpture Center in Long Island City and Carnegie Hall. From 1999 until 2002 Nagai was a composer in residence at The Cave Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In addition to his work as a guitarist, Nagai is also involved in creating multi-media, interactive performance and installation and has collaborated with artists from various fields. These projects include a long-standing collaborative relationship with choreographer Boaz Barkan documented by filmmaker Miana Grafals in the short film "A Moving Portrait.” This film was presented at Dance Theatre Workshop in NYC as part of the 2005 Dance on Camera Festival. More recently, Nagai worked with the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto on the silent film "The Water Magician" (1933, directed by Kenji Mizoguchi) composing film score and performed at Japan Society, NYC and Hershhorn Museum at Smithsonian Institute. In 2005 and 2006, Nagai performed in "Flight of Mind " with choreographer Jennifer Monson. He continues his collaboration with Monson in 2007 through a multi-season project set in the Highland Park Reservoir in NYC.

Vonn New is a composer/performer who uses percussion, flutes, field recordings and computer processing to create sonic playgrounds for herself and others. Based in Hyde Park NY, she is engaged using music and listening in Quaker ministry to promote peacebuilding and the expression of joy as a response to violence.

Vonn New is a composer/performer who uses percussion, flutes, field recordings and computer processing to create sonic playgrounds for herself and others. Based in Hyde Park NY, she is engaged using music and listening in Quaker ministry to promote peacebuilding and the expression of joy as a response to violence.

Kristin Norderval is a classically trained singer, improviser, and composer. Profiled by The New York Times in "Downtown Divas Expand their Horizons" and hailed as one of "new music's best" by the Village Voice, she performs a repertoire that spans the renaissance to the avant-garde. Both as a composer and as a performer Ms. Norderval has specialized in developing new works for voice and chamber ensembles, with special emphasis on small scale opera, multi-media, cross-disciplinary work, and works with interactive technology. Her collaborations have included work with choreographers, sculptors, filmmakers and installation artists as well as numerous new music ensembles. Commissions have included works for Den Anden Opera in Copenhagen, the Bucharest International Dance Festival in Romania, and jill sigman/thinkdance in New York City. She was the recipient of a Norwegian State Artist’s Stipend (Statens kunstnerstipend) in 2004 and 2005 for the development of new multi-disciplinary work, the American Music Center’s Henry Cowell Award in 2005, and the Jerome Composer's Commissioning Program in 2006. Upcoming commissions include works for the Parthenia viol consort and a multi-media work for DVD for the composer consortium "Sounding Out". Norderval's credits as a soloist include performances with the Netherlands Dance Theater, the San Francisco Symphony, the Oslo Sinfonietta and the Philip Glass Ensemble. She has recorded for CRI, Nonesuch, Mode, Deep Listening, Eurydice, Aurora and Point records. Norderval is currently a research fellow at Østfold University College in Norway.

Kristin Norderval is a classically trained singer, improviser, and composer. Profiled by The New York Times in "Downtown Divas Expand their Horizons" and hailed as one of "new music's best" by the Village Voice, she performs a repertoire that spans the renaissance to the avant-garde. Both as a composer and as a performer Ms. Norderval has specialized in developing new works for voice and chamber ensembles, with special emphasis on small scale opera, multi-media, cross-disciplinary work, and works with interactive technology. Her collaborations have included work with choreographers, sculptors, filmmakers and installation artists as well as numerous new music ensembles. Commissions have included works for Den Anden Opera in Copenhagen, the Bucharest International Dance Festival in Romania, and jill sigman/thinkdance in New York City. She was the recipient of a Norwegian State Artist’s Stipend (Statens kunstnerstipend) in 2004 and 2005 for the development of new multi-disciplinary work, the American Music Center’s Henry Cowell Award in 2005, and the Jerome Composer's Commissioning Program in 2006. Upcoming commissions include works for the Parthenia viol consort and a multi-media work for DVD for the composer consortium "Sounding Out". Norderval's credits as a soloist include performances with the Netherlands Dance Theater, the San Francisco Symphony, the Oslo Sinfonietta and the Philip Glass Ensemble. She has recorded for CRI, Nonesuch, Mode, Deep Listening, Eurydice, Aurora and Point records. Norderval is currently a research fellow at Østfold University College in Norway.

Executive Director

Pauline Oliveros is one of America's most vital composers. Deep Listening®, her lifetime practice, is fundamental to her composing, performing and teaching. She serves as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY; Darius Milhaud Artist-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland CA; and president of the Deep Listening Institute in Kingston NY.

Scott Smallwood was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up at 10,000 feet in elevation in the Colorado Rockies. When Smallwood was 10 years old, his father gave him a cassette tape recorder, and ever since he has been fascinated by the possibilities of recorded sound. His work deals with real and abstracted soundscapes based on a practice of listening, improvisation, and phonography. He has worked with a variety of artists and ensembles, including Cor Fuhler, Mark Dresser, Ensemble SurPlus, The BSC, and Pauline Oliveros. His work has been presented worldwide, including recent presentations at Roulette in NYC, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the 2006 Sonic Circuits festival in Washington DC, and the Kulturhaus E-Werk in Frieberg, Germany. His work has been released on Autumn Records, Deep Listening, Televaw, Simple Logic, Static Caravan, and Webbed Hand Records.

Bill Stevens (1977) is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, Pi Kappa Lambda, with a major in music composition and an independently designed major in oral music. His work has been recognized by organizations including the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts (level one finalist, music composition) and the Whitehouse Commission on Presidential Scholars (1995). He is a member of the faculty of the Walden School Young Musicians Program and Teacher Training Institute, where he has designed and implemented the Jazz Musicianship curriculum. Bill is currently a fourth year student with Helix Training, a ministerial program bringing together psychological and spiritual teachings for the purposes of healing and transformation.

Bill Stevens (1977) is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory, Pi Kappa Lambda, with a major in music composition and an independently designed major in oral music. His work has been recognized by organizations including the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts (level one finalist, music composition) and the Whitehouse Commission on Presidential Scholars (1995). He is a member of the faculty of the Walden School Young Musicians Program and Teacher Training Institute, where he has designed and implemented the Jazz Musicianship curriculum. Bill is currently a fourth year student with Helix Training, a ministerial program bringing together psychological and spiritual teachings for the purposes of healing and transformation.

Will Swofford Cameron is a composer/improviser, filmmaker, writer and curator living in Brooklyn, NY, and is the founder of Saturnalia, a media consultancy and outsider publishing label dedicated to digital collaborations with artists, composers and experimental filmmakers. In the present time cycle he has been devoted to a continuum of solo performances and collaborations known as anahata: the rituals of akasha.

He has studied with noted composers Anthony Braxton, La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, Pak Sumarsam and B. Balasubrahmaniyan. In 2004, Will received a three-year Deep Listening Retreat certificate and is an active workshop leader in the Deep Listening practice. At Wesleyan, he organized the student forum Deep Listening, Improvisation, and Ritual, a credited undergraduate tutorial introducing listening meditation and experimental music to a large group of academically diverse students.

Will Swofford Cameron is a composer/improviser, filmmaker, writer and curator living in Brooklyn, NY, and is the founder of Saturnalia, a media consultancy and outsider publishing label dedicated to digital collaborations with artists, composers and experimental filmmakers. In the present time cycle he has been devoted to a continuum of solo performances and collaborations known as anahata: the rituals of akasha.

He has studied with noted composers Anthony Braxton, La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, Pak Sumarsam and B. Balasubrahmaniyan. In 2004, Will received a three-year Deep Listening Retreat certificate and is an active workshop leader in the Deep Listening practice. At Wesleyan, he organized the student forum Deep Listening, Improvisation, and Ritual, a credited undergraduate tutorial introducing listening meditation and experimental music to a large group of academically diverse students.

Phala Tracy - Harpist, composer, improviser, arranger, teacher, poet, deep listener. Phala is a versatile performer. From classical to pop, ragtime to free improvisation, she pushes the boundary of what one has come to expect from the pedal harp. A lover of nonsense, many of her songs and poems are imbued with a spirit of nonsensical whimsy. Her first album, “Critter Songs” is a collection of playful, imaginative songs for children. Phala lives and works in Minneapolis, MN where she teaches harp at the MacPhail Center for Music and Gustavus Adolphus College. BM Oberlin Conservatory of Music, MFA California Institute of the Arts.

Phala Tracy - Harpist, composer, improviser, arranger, teacher, poet, deep listener. Phala is a versatile performer. From classical to pop, ragtime to free improvisation, she pushes the boundary of what one has come to expect from the pedal harp. A lover of nonsense, many of her songs and poems are imbued with a spirit of nonsensical whimsy. Her first album, “Critter Songs” is a collection of playful, imaginative songs for children. Phala lives and works in Minneapolis, MN where she teaches harp at the MacPhail Center for Music and Gustavus Adolphus College. BM Oberlin Conservatory of Music, MFA California Institute of the Arts.

Doug Van Nort is a sound artist, composer and researcher. His work takes an experimental approach to technology, resulting in a unique mixture of research and creation. Recent projects have included installation pieces for interactive fabric instruments, electroacoustic compositions, analysis/synthesis systems for texture and noise, pieces for large ensembles of "laptop performers" over the internet, and intelligent agents for musical improvisation. These and other works have been presented at festivals and conferences across Europe, Japan and North America.

Van Nort improvises regularly with electronic and acoustic musicians using his custom GREIS software and amplified objects, currently performing in the trio Triple Point with Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch. His work is documented on several experimental music labels (including Deep Listening) and in publications such as Organised Sound and Leonardo Music Journal. In addition to Oliveros and Braasch, current collaborators include Chris Chafe, Michael Century and Al Margolis.

Katharina von Rütte lives and works as a singer (roots in Jazz), improviser, singing teacher, composer and lyricist/poet in Basel, Switzerland. She calls her current project "Continuous Weaving." There she creates with her voice an ongoing stream of music interweaving improvisations with her compositions, jazz standards and silence. It is a slow walk from moment to moment between silence and sound. She sings solo or accompanies her voice with two differently tuned acoustic guitars or piano.

Katharina von Rütte lives and works as a singer (roots in Jazz), improviser, singing teacher, composer and lyricist/poet in Basel, Switzerland. She calls her current project "Continuous Weaving." There she creates with her voice an ongoing stream of music interweaving improvisations with her compositions, jazz standards and silence. It is a slow walk from moment to moment between silence and sound. She sings solo or accompanies her voice with two differently tuned acoustic guitars or piano.

Weaver is a composer/improviser/performer based in New York. She is Artistic Director of multidisciplinary performance group Weave and Executive Director of the International Society for Improvised Music. Weaver plays trombone, didjeridu, and conch shell, and has performed at major venues throughout the United States. She has played with legendary performers Pauline Oliveros, Marilyn Crispell, Karl Berger, David Liebman, Walter Thompson, and Francois Jeanneau, among others. Weaver also teaches and advocates creative music education programs, making conference presentations and teaching programs on authentic creativity through listening.

Weaver is a composer/improviser/performer based in New York. She is Artistic Director of multidisciplinary performance group Weave and Executive Director of the International Society for Improvised Music. Weaver plays trombone, didjeridu, and conch shell, and has performed at major venues throughout the United States. She has played with legendary performers Pauline Oliveros, Marilyn Crispell, Karl Berger, David Liebman, Walter Thompson, and Francois Jeanneau, among others. Weaver also teaches and advocates creative music education programs, making conference presentations and teaching programs on authentic creativity through listening.

Julia White is a visual artist who is passionate about the power of creativity to heal and transform us, both personally and globally. Her most recent work, for example, Threads of Peace was initiated out of a need to reconnect with her own inner peace. Julia spends each day with her children, ages 1 and 2; a rich and wonderful experience! However, when friends would ask how she was coping, she would often reply, "I am holding a thread." Listening to herself, she realized- this thread was peace. So, with thread in hand, Julia embarked upon a new creative journey, where art is ritual and peace...she discovered, is within.

Julia White is a visual artist who is passionate about the power of creativity to heal and transform us, both personally and globally. Her most recent work, for example, Threads of Peace was initiated out of a need to reconnect with her own inner peace. Julia spends each day with her children, ages 1 and 2; a rich and wonderful experience! However, when friends would ask how she was coping, she would often reply, "I am holding a thread." Listening to herself, she realized- this thread was peace. So, with thread in hand, Julia embarked upon a new creative journey, where art is ritual and peace...she discovered, is within.

Gayle Young plays two instruments of her own design. The amaranth is a 24-stringed zither with moveable bridges, based on an instrument built by Lou Harrison, and sharing many features of oriental stringed instruments such as the koto. The columbine is a percussion instrument using 61 steel tubes placed horizontally over a resonator, with a just intonation tuning of 23 pitches per octave.

Young is also the author of The Sackbut Blues, the biography of Hugh Le Caine, an early innovator in electronic instrument design. She has published many articles on aspects on musical innovation, and was the editor of Musicworks Magazine between 1988 and 2006; she is now the publisher.

Gayle Young plays two instruments of her own design. The amaranth is a 24-stringed zither with moveable bridges, based on an instrument built by Lou Harrison, and sharing many features of oriental stringed instruments such as the koto. The columbine is a percussion instrument using 61 steel tubes placed horizontally over a resonator, with a just intonation tuning of 23 pitches per octave.

Young is also the author of The Sackbut Blues, the biography of Hugh Le Caine, an early innovator in electronic instrument design. She has published many articles on aspects on musical innovation, and was the editor of Musicworks Magazine between 1988 and 2006; she is now the publisher.

Christine Zehnder-Probst (1953) lives in Raeterschen, Switzerland. music educator, improviser, pianist, Deep Listening certificate holder, certificate holder for improvised chamber music of the Hochschule für Musik, Basel.
For the past 14 years she has tought music and improvisation to numerous groups of children and adults and has a longstanding experience in creating musical performances and theaters with children in public schools.
Started up and teaches „GANZ OHR“, a regular listening and improvising training for earminded adults in Winterthur, Switzerland. As a musician she works and performs regularly with various ensembles. Instruments include piano, wooden flutes, voice and „Schwyzeroergeli“.

Christine Zehnder-Probst (1953) lives in Raeterschen, Switzerland. music educator, improviser, pianist, Deep Listening certificate holder, certificate holder for improvised chamber music of the Hochschule für Musik, Basel.
For the past 14 years she has tought music and improvisation to numerous groups of children and adults and has a longstanding experience in creating musical performances and theaters with children in public schools.
Started up and teaches „GANZ OHR“, a regular listening and improvising training for earminded adults in Winterthur, Switzerland. As a musician she works and performs regularly with various ensembles. Instruments include piano, wooden flutes, voice and „Schwyzeroergeli“.