Stuart Dempster
Stuart Dempster

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.


Renko Dempster

Suiren’s (a.k.a. Renko Ishida Dempster) work includes visual improvisations with sound, movement, and visual arts collective ROOM; exhibitions of paintings in the northwest, including RAW Gallery, Jack Straw New Media Gallery (Seattle), Commencement Gallery (Tacoma), The Evergreen State College (Olympia); art performances with sound and visual arts collective ARTKOAMIA (2005 & 2006); visual performance with Deep Listening Band at Sound Symposium, St. Johns, Newfoundland (2002); Associate Artist-in-Residence with the Dome Project, Atlantic Center for the Arts (2005).
Stuart Dempster
Integrity 29 (2004)

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.


Score
Price: $25.00

Stuart Dempster
In the Great Abbey of Clement VI

The 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.


CD
Price: $18.00

Stuart Dempster
Room: A Performance in the Midst of Art Outside

Filmed at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center on July 22, 2000. Five Improvisers; Sheri Cohen, Renko Ishida Dempster, Stuart Dempster, John Dixon, Tonya Lockyer. ROOM was founded in December 1998 by Sheri Cohen in a performance at Seattle's Velocity. Cohen describes "The structure is the context. These four people. Their skills, interests, moods. This room. This period of time. These musical instruments. The way the audience is sitting. We have chosen to work specifically without discussion. The intent is to emphasize listening and receptivity - a tangible quality of attentiveness."


DVD-Video
Price: $30.00

Stuart Dempster
Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel

New 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


CD
Price: $16.00

Stuart Dempster
In the Great Abbey of Clement VI

The 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.


Tape
Price: $10.00