Deep Listening Band LIVE at the Winter Garden

NEWS FROM THE PAULINE OLIVEROS FOUNDATION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:	May 16, 2003
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DEEP LISTENING BAND, LIVE AT THE WINTER GARDENS 
AT THE WORLD FINANCIAL
CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY

New York City, NY - The world-renowned Deep Listening 
Band will perform on
Thursday, May 22 at 7:00 pm at the Winter Garden at the 
World Financial
Center in New York City.  Admission is free.

Progrqm:
1.  MUSIC FROM THE SOUL OF THE EARTH
In Memory of Greg Altman
2.  'EAR TH' SOUL MUSIC (Stuart Dempster)
3.  AS IT IS (Pauline Oliveros)
4.  COOLING OFF WITH EIS (David Gamper)
5.  FROM NOW ON (Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, & 
Stuart Dempster)

DEEP LISTENING is a philosophy and practice developed 
by Pauline Oliveros
that distinguishes the difference between the involuntary 
nature of hearing

and the voluntary selective nature of listening.  The result of 
the
practice
cultivates an appreciation of sounds on a heightened level, 
expanding the
potential for connection and interaction with one's 
environment,
technology,
and performance with others in music and related arts.
PAULINE OLIVEROS (accordion & vocals) is a senior figure 
in contemporary
American music. Her
career spans fifty years of boundary dissolving music 
making. In the 1950s
she was part of a circle of iconoclastic composers, artists, 
and poets
gathered together in San Francisco. Today she is 
Distinguished Research
Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
Troy, New York.
Oliveros has been as interested in finding new sounds as 
in finding new
uses
for old ones, her primary instrument being the accordion. 
Oliveros' life as

a composer, performer, and humanitarian is about 
opening her own and
others'
sensibilities to the universe and facets of sounds. Since 
the 1960s she has

profoundly influenced American music through her work 
with improvisation,
meditation, electronic music, myth, and ritual. She is the 
progenitor of
3Deep Listening2, which comes from her childhood 
fascination with sounds
and
from her work in concert music composition, improvisation, 
and
electroacoustics.
Oliveros describes 3Deep Listening2 as a method to listen 
in every possible

way to everything
possible to hear. Such intense listening includes the 
sounds of daily life,

of nature, of one's own
thoughts, as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening is 
my life practice,"
she explains. In further testament to Oliveros1 influence, 
John Cage
quoted,
"Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I finally 
know what harmony is

. . . It's about the pleasure of making music."
Oliveros is founder and president of Pauline Oliveros 
Foundation, Inc., a
non-profit arts organization based in Kingston, New York. 
Founded on the
conviction that creativity forms the vital spirit of public and 
personal
growth, the Pauline Oliveros Foundation fosters the 
creation of innovative
arts and associated technologies, and cultivates a global 
perspective in
the
arts and education through the practice of Deep Listening.
DAVID GAMPER (keyboard, overtone flutes, found 
instruments, & sound
processing) moves freely among the worlds of 
composition, improvisation,
and
electronic instrument design and construction. In his 
passion for creating
performer controlled sound processing environments for 
improvising acoustic

musicians, he continues work on the Expanded Instrument 
System (EIS) for
Deep Listening Band and has designed variations for 
teaching,
demonstration,
recording, and for use by guest musicians in performance. 
In addition to
his
other solo and ensemble work, Gamper has performed as 
a duo with Pauline
Oliveros, and the recording of their concert at the IJsbreker 
in Amsterdam
has been described as "the pinnacle of the Oliveros-
Gamper collaborations,
music that through its depth, reveals ever more profound 
expression." His
solo piece Conch (2000) for the Whitney Museum of 
American Art BitStreams
exhibition (2001) is included on the CD of sound art from 
that show. A
major
focus of Gamper's creative work is the collaboration, with 
photographer
Gisela Gamper, See Hear Now: Visible Music, which 
performs immersing sound
and video live improvisations in site specific installations.
STUART DEMPSTER, (trombone, conch shells, didjeridus, 
& toys) composer and
Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, has 
recorded for
numerous labels including Columbia, Nonesuch, and New 
Albion. His New
Albion
recording In the Great Abbey of Clement VI at Avignon has 
become, in the
words of one reviewer, "a cult classic." Also on New Albion 
is Underground
Overlays from the Cistern Chapel that consists of music 
sources for a 1995
Merce Cunningham Dance Company commission. His 
grants include, Creative
Associate at SUNYAB (1967-68); Fellow, Center for 
Advanced Study,
University
of Illinois (1971-72); Fulbright Scholar in Australia (1973); 
NEA Composer
Grant (1978); US/UK Fellowship (1979); and a 
Guggenheim Fellowship (1981).
Dempster, a leading figure and pioneer in the development 
of trombone
technique and performance, published his landmark book 
The Modern Trombone:

A Definition of Its Idioms in 1979. As a founding member of 
Deep Listening
Band, he has toured extensively and produced the first 
three DLB recordings

including the award-winning Deep Listening, the first CD 
made in the now
infamous Fort Worden, Port Townsend, WA, cistern with its 
45"
reverberation.
Dempster is also known for soothing aches, pains, and 
psychic sores with
his
healing, yet playful, Sound Massage Parlor. These and 
other environmental
and site specific works, such as SWAMI (State of 
Washington As a Musical
Instrument), have earned him a reputation as a composer 
and performer whose

work is at once deep, meditative, and amusing. He is also 
a regular
featured
performer with The Cathedral Band, both live and online at
www.monroestreet.com/Cathedral/stage.
The Expanded Instrument System (EIS) is an evolving 
electronic sound
processing environment dedicated to providing improvising 
musicians control

over various interesting parameters of electronic 
transformation of their
acoustic performances. Performers each have their own 
setup which includes
their microphones, control devices and a computer with 
sound input and
output. The computer provides the digital signal 
processing which includes
delays and ambiance, and translates and displays control 
information for
this processing from foot pedals and switches. The 
musicians and their
instruments are the sources of all the sounds, which they 
pick up with
their
microphones and subject to several kinds of pitch, time 
and spatial
ambiance
transformations and manipulations.  No electronic sounds 
sources are used,
only acoustic instruments and voices. Software for the EIS 
was developed by

David Gamper.

This program is presented by the Arts and Events 
Committee at the World
Financial Center.

                 

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