| Iris - Evidence | Review, tracklist, & music samples

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. This release contains both a CD and DVD.

| Miya Masaoka & Pauline Oliveros - Accordion Koto | Review, tracklist, & music samples

"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 [sic] of playing and becoming conscious of what has played - been played - is a continually surprising experience in such improvisation." - Pauline Oliveros

| Jonas Braasch - Global Reflections | Review, tracklist, & music samples

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.

| Pauline Oliveros - Lion's Eye/Lion's Tale | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Lion's Eye for Gamelan was commissioned in 1985 by Barbara Benary for Gamelan Son of Lion. Lion's Eye for Synthesizer 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.

| Fritz Hauser - Deep Time | Review, tracklist, & music samples

DEEP TIME is a tape composition commissioned in 1991 by the Deep Listening Institute 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 2 versions of DEEP TIME. Both of these 32 minute recordings are included here.

| Pauline Oliveros - Primordial/Lift | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Primordial/Lift is based on information concerning the shift in the resonant frequency of the earth from 7.8hz to 13hz. 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.

| interface - Recording Field H | Review, tracklist, & music samples

This DVD is the first recording bringing together Pauline Oliveros and the ensemble 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 USA based Deep Listening Publications.

| Deep Listening Band - Tosca Salad | Review, tracklist, & music samples

This CD gives us a tasty variety of free improvisations excerpted from recordings of Deep Listening Band rehearsals and of the band in concert. Band members Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and David Gamper are featured exploiting the sonoric and spatial palette of the Expanded Instrument System.

| Cohen/Finkleman/Gersh - Straylight | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Straylight is an ambient, avant world trio featuring Jason Finkelman (berimbau, percussion), Geoff Gersh (guitar) and Charles Cohen (Buchla Music Easel). Dedicated to the art of improvised music, Straylight's members have been performing concerts and theatre works since 1993.

| Pauline Oliveros - Ghostdance | Review, tracklist, & music samples

"The long awaited soundtrack of the Ghostdance music and dance collaboration between Oliveros and Paula Josa-Jones. 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 ambience processors, microphones, signal routing and mixing, and a computer which translates and displays control information from foot pedals and switches."

| Neil B. Rolnick's Fish Love That | Review, tracklist, & music samples

"It's not jazz. It's not "free" improvisation, but neither is it "composed music." It's somewhere in between." - Neil Rolnick.

| Scott Smallwood - Electrotherapy | Review, tracklist, & music samples

"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. - Scott Smallwood

| Scott Smallwood - Desert Winds | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Sound artist Scott Smallwood gathered sounds for this CD from field recordings he made mostly around the desert of Utah, and in Berlin and LAX Airport. Listening to the six desert pieces is like sound theatre, an aural trip through real landscapes, subtly manipulated so that the listener cannot but feel and explore them in an intimate way. - OS 2005

| Evidence - Out of Town | Review, tracklist, & music samples

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.

| Pauline Oliveros - Tara's Room | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Two extended meditative pieces by Pauline Oliveros make up this CD.

| Automatic Inscription of Speech Melody | Review, tracklist, & music samples

The Carrier Band was formed in 1998 when Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode and Andrew Deutsch performed three 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.

| Timeless Pulse - Live at CNMAT 2002 | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Formed in 1993 in a residency at the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, the musicians of Timeless Pulse make music together through listening and responding in the moment.

| New Circle Five - Dreaming Wide Awake | Review, tracklist, & music samples

The highly skilled musicians on this album bring a diverse range of influences to their melting pot of improvisation - jazz, opera, echoes of the more dissonant contemporary classical movements of the twentieth century, free improvisation and extended technique. Their interaction is at times stark, at others playful. They travel together through many different sonic landscapes and moods, supporting each other's explorations, there is space in the music and the listening that's going on between them is palpable. - OS 2005

| Dana Reason - Primal Identity | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Dana Reason's CD is a superb example of the best of trans-cultural music. The Deep Listening CD features Dana Reason on piano. Philip Gelb joins Reason on shakuhachi for several cuts. Reason's music is improvisational, but well-articulated in form, a melding of sound and story, an intensely personal journey guided by Afrological forms.

| Deep Listening Band - Unquenchable Fire | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Unquenchable Fire is a composition of structured improvisations based on excerpts from Rachel Pollack's "speculative fiction" of the same name. It features readings by Rachel Pollack interspersed with music from these two ensembles. Pollack's readings are fantastic and rich - imaginative images on a future revolution ... by the end the hugely diverse number of ideas and motifs raised gives a sense of the bizarre and fantastic world that Pollack's work obviously embodies. - OS 2005

| Brian Willson - Things Heard Unheard | Review, tracklist, & music samples

Brian Willson, Dominic Duval and Yuko Fujiyama play percussion, bass and piano on 'Things Heard Unheard' - a record of their first musical meeting. The CD was recorded in one night in New York City. The music is mostly free improvisation, with a strong influence of free jazz. It's highly energetic, often frenzied and cacophonic, with little repetition - rhythmic or melodic

| Zanana - Holding Patterns | Review, tracklist, & music samples

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's inception dates from an all-night peace vigil concert in the fall of 2002 when Kristin invited Monique and poet Barbara Barg to join her for an evening of improvised music and spoken word.