Browse by Label: DEEP LISTENING

Artist:	DEEP LISTENING BAND
Title:	Tosca Salad
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 003CD

1995 release. "A tasty variety of free improvisations excerpted from recordings of Deep Listening Band rehearsals and of the Band in concert (1992-95). Band members Pauline Oliveros (just tuned accordion, French horn, electronics), Stuart Dempster (trombone, didjeridu, garden hose, electronics) and David Gamper (just tuned piano, organ, electronics) are featured exploiting the sonoric and spatial palette of the Expanded Instrument System. Performers Julie Lyon Rose (voice), Fritz Hauser (perc.), Urs Leimgruber (saxophones), Ben Neill (mutantrumpet), Joe McPhee (reeds, pocket trumpet), Joe Giardullo (reeds, flute), Ellen Fullman, Nigel Jacobs and Elise Gould (long stringed instruments) appear as guest artists. A wonderful chronological acoustic essay of the Band's work over the last two years."

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Ghostdance
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 007CD

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."

Artist:	CARRIER BAND
Title:	Automatic Inscription Of Speech Melody
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 016CD

"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."

Artist:	SMALLWOOD, SCOTT
Title:	Desert Winds: 6 Windblown Sound Pieces And Other Works
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 017CD

"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."

Artist:	NEW CIRCLE FIVE
Title:	Dreaming Wide Awake
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 020CD

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."

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Tara's Room
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 022CD

"The two works on this CD -- 'Tara's Room' and 'The Beauty of Sorrow' were composed and performed by Pauline Oliveros and recorded in May 1987. Previously only available as a cassette and long out of print, Deep Listening is proud to make these wonderful pieces available on CD. 'The Beauty of Sorrow' is intended to assist the listener in connecting and relaxing with deep feelings. 'The Beauty of Sorrow' was played by the composer on a small accordion tuned in just intonation and using Lexicon delay processors in a version of her Expanded Instrument System (EIS). Tara's Room is an invocation for wisdom especially during an unfamiliar journey. Tara's Room is a multi-track recording with all materials (voice, percussion, flute) played and sung by Pauline Oliveros."

Artist:	EVIDENCE
Title:	Out Of Town
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 023CD

"Sound artists Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood began performing as the duo Evidence in 2001. Focusing on the universe of real-world sound, Evidence pours field recordings like water into their compositional and improvisational process, resulting in music that balances between tight organization and unregulated flow. Using recording equipment, laptops, and other electronic devices, Evidence creates music that deals with gradual change, improvised over time, sometimes atmospheric, sometimes pulsating, always texturally striking and unique. Resisting classification into a single genre, Evidence is equally at home performing in experimental venues, clubs, galleries, planetariums, and rooftops. 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."

Artist:	INTERFACE
Title:	Recording Field, H
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	DVD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DL 027DVD

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). "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." Region-free NTSC format.; length: 66:55.

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Lion's Eye/Lion's Tale
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 028CD

"'Lion's Eye for Gamelan' was commissioned in 1985 by Barbara Benary for Gamelan Son of Lion. "Lion's Eye for Sampler' was commissioned concurrently by Neil Rolnick for iEAR Presents at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Both versions were performed in 1985. The intention to combine both pieces in order to expand the tempo range of the Gamelan was first realized in May of 1989 in performances by the Berkeley Gamelan in Oakland and San Francisco, California under the direction of Daniel Schmidt. This version of 'Lion's Eye' is recorded on this disc. The duration of 'Lion's Eye' is forty-five minutes. 'Lion's Tale' (1989) is composed of layered polymetrical, polyrhythmical patterns. The patterns are played at speeds ranging up to 1800 per minute. The composer designed patterns are generated by the computer program. 'Lion's Tale' may be created in a new version every time the program is run. 'Lion's Tale' also exists in a MIDI version for a keyboard performer."

Artist:	SMALLWOOD, SCOTT
Title:	Electrotherapy
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 029CD

"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."

Artist:	ZANANA
Title:	Holding Patterns
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 030CD

"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 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."

Artist:	WILLSON, BRIAN
Title:	Things Heard Unheard
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 031CD

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 '60s, 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."

Artist:	HAUSER, FRITZ
Title:	Deep Time
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	2CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DL 032CD

Pauline Oliveros, accordion & Expanded Instrument System; David Gamper, Expanded Instrument System electronics, misc. small instruments; Urs Leimgruber, soprano & tenor saxophones; Fritz Hauser, percussion. "Deep Time is a tape composition commissioned in 1991 by the Pauline Oliveros Foundation for Deep Listening Band. Fritz Hauser's tape features recordings of sounding stones (manufactured by Arthur Schneiter) and various watches and clocks (thanks to the Bucher family in Switzerland for permission to record that family clock!). The performers improvise with the tape. On October 26, 1994 Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Urs Leimgruber and Fritz Hauser recorded two versions of Deep Time. Both of these 32 minute recordings are included here."

Artist:	OLIVEROS, PAULINE
Title:	Primordial/Lift
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 033CD

"Originally released on the Table of the Elements label and long out of print, this version of the recording contains an additional 30 minutes of material not included on the original release. Recorded live on March 20, 1998 at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY. Primordial/Lift is based on information concerning the shift in the resonant frequency of the earth from 7.8hz to 13hz given in Awakening to the Zero Point by Gregg Braden, Radio Bookstore Press (1997). According to Braden, the resonant frequency of the earth was measured as 7.8hz in 1960 and by 1994 the measurement was at 8.6hz and it will rise to 13hz by 2010. At the same time the magnetic fields of the earth are diminishing in strength towards zero point. By the time that 13hz is established as the resonant frequency the magnetic fields will reverse their polarity - North will become South and vice versa. The acceleration from 7.8hz to 13hz of the earth's resonant frequency is represented in Primordial/Lift by a low frequency oscillator." Pauline Oliveros - accordian & electronics, voice; Andrew Deutsch - electronics & toy piano; Tony Conrad - electric violin & ring modulator; Anne Bourne - cello & voice; Alexandria Gelencser - electric cello; David Grubbs - harmonium; Scott Olson - low frequency oscillator.

Artist:	BRAASCH, JONAS
Title:	Global Reflections
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 034CD

"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)."

Artist:	EVIDENCE
Title:	Iris
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	DL 035CD

"Iris, the second CD release from the duo Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood) on the Deep Listening label, is also their first video release. The DVD has the same sonic material as the music on the CD, but it features video pieces by the duo's favorite live-video performers, including Benton-C Bainbridge, Betsey Biggs, Fi$h2000, Madeleine Gallagher, Dawn Haleta, David Lublin, Jonathan Lee Marcus, Olivia Robinson, skfl, Diana Reed Slattery, Jack Turner and Walter Wright. These pieces emphasize the spontaneity of the artists' live performances, the practice of using 'found' materials, and suggest the emergence of a regional aesthetic stemming from the recent hotbed of media performance centered around Troy, New York. Stephan Moore is a composer, improviser, audio artist, sound designer and software programmer from Marquette, Michigan, currently based in New York City. His work is grounded in the collection and investigation of environmental sound recordings and a fascination with the perception and properties of acoustic environments. Scott Smallwood deals with real and abstracted soundscapes based on a practice of listening, improvisation, and phonography. Ranging from sonic photographs, studio compositions, instrumental pieces, and improvisations, the resulting pieces are often textural, always mindful of space and subtlety."

Artist:	OLIVEROS/MIYA MASAOKA, PAULINE
Title:	Koto Accordion
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 036CD

"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

Artist:	FULLMAN/MONIQUE BUZZARTE, ELLEN
Title:	Fluctuations
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 038CD

"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."

Artist:	CARRIER BAND
Title:	Voice Coil
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 039CD

"Pauline Oliveros (accordion with Expanded Instrument System); Peer Bode (live text with Bode vocoder); Andrew Deutsch (live mixing, archival recordings, samples, loops and electronics). Voice Coil was performed by the Carrier Band in the fall of 2003 at the Deep Listening Space in Kingston, New York. Pauline Oliveros performed on accordion and computer-based Expanded Instrument System, Peer Bode performed live text with his Bode Vocoder, and Andrew Deutsch performed live mixing, archival recordings from the Bode archive, samples, loops and electronics. Voice Coil is an example of an improvisation emphasizing the integration of analog systems and new digital tools between performers both living and deceased. In 2007, Andrew Deutsch added about 35 minutes of short overdubs to the recordings and has brought the recording closer to what the audience heard at the Deep Listening Space. Furthermore, the overdubs provide added depth to the work for repeated listening. 'Frozen Speaker' is an electronic composition by Andrew Deutsch and features sections from Oliveros' Music for Expo 70. 'Video Voice' uses sounds from Pauline Oliveros' electronic works 'V of IV' and 'Mewsak,' as well as elements of Stephen Vitiello's 'Light Meter' recordings. The Carrier Band was formed in 1998 when Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode, and Andrew Deutsch performed 3 improvisations at Alfred University that were later released as the Carrier CD on the Deep Listening label."

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Artist:	MCPHEE QUINTET, JOE
Title:	Common Threads
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 004CD

Artist:	DEEP LISTENING BAND/JOE MCPHEE QUARTET
Title:	Unquenchable Fire
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 019CD

Artist:	TIMELESS PULSE
Title:	Live At CNMAT
Label:	DEEP LISTENING
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	DL 021CD