Sarah Weaver
Deep Listening Apprentice
Sarah Weaver is the Artistic Director of Weave, a contemporary arts performance group based in New York City. Weaver has performed with Soundpainting for 10 years, leading her own groups and as Associate Conductor of the Walter Thompson Orchestra. Weaver plays trombone, didjeridu, and conch shell, and has performed at venues including Roulette (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Lincoln Center (NYC), Now Lounge (Toronto), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Austin Lyric Opera House (Austin), and Trummerflora Festival (San Diego). Recent projects include research and performance of Telematic Music - co-located performance via the internet - with collaborators Pauline Oliveros and Jonas Braasch (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY), Chris Chafe (Stanford University, CA), Mark Dresser (University of California San Diego), and collaborators world-wide in the virtual reality environment Second Life. Performances with other major contemporary music figures include Marilyn Crispell, Karl Berger, David Liebman, and Stuart Dempster, among others. Weaver has led workshops at University of Michigan, University of Iowa, The New School, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Association for Improvising Musicians Toronto, Illinois Music Educators Conference, and New York State School Music Association Conference. Weaver is Executive Director of the International Society for Improvised Music and an Apprentice of Deep Listening - the sound practice of composer Pauline Oliveros.