"Though an unlikely combination -- accordion and koto -- it is not so much about the instruments as about the energies of the music that comes from the intensity of listening -- listening as close to 'now' as possible. We know that our consciousness is delayed by a fraction of a second that the brain interprets as now -- however the body is instantaneous in its perception. Thus the phenomena of playing and becoming conscious of what has played -- been played -- is a continually surprising experience in such improvisation." --Pauline Oliveros

"Monique Buzzarté and Ellen Fullman began working together in June 2005. These collaborative compositions are rooted in tonalities that unfold with unexpected possibilities. Buzzarté's trombone navigates and merges through an infinite array of distinct overtones from Fullman's Long String Instrument. With slight timbral variations and pitch juxtapositions, sympathetic resonances articulate overtone colorations and threads of resultant melodic fragments emerge and intertwine."

"Timeless Pulse sometimes recalls the soundscapes of Gunter Muller, Butch Morris, David Shea and AMM, and is thus recommended to fans of them and harmonious (yes, that¹s right, with harmony) free-improv."- Mark Keresman

Formed in 1993 in a residency at the Deep Listening Institute, the musicians of Timeless Pulse - whose members come from jazz, classical and electronic - make music together through listening and responding in the moment. The five compositions on this recording from 2005 are warm, compassionate tapestries of soft, rolling sounds performed by accordion, cymbals, drums, gongs, bells, chimes, sampled sounds, and voice.

Thomas Buckner has been singing, presenting, recording and producing composed and improvised music since 1972. He is currently co-producer with the World Music Institute of the Interpretations Series of contemporary music in New York City and founder and artistic director of the mutablemusic label.

George Marsh has been teaching and performing on drumset and percussion since 1954. He is currently touring with the David Grisman Quintet, and teaching at UC Santa Cruz and Sonoma State University.

Pauline Oliveros is a composer, improviser, founder and president of the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. and a distinguished professor of music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Mills College.

David Wessel co-directs the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California Berkeley where he practices and teaches live-performance computer-based music.

Composer/performer Jennifer Wilsey teaches percussion and percussion pedagogy at Sonoma State University and maintains a private studio in piano and percussion in Santa Rosa, CA.