Carrier Band Voice Coil

Carrier Band Voice Coil

Deep Listening

The Carrier Band – Pauline Oliveros (accoridion and Expanded Instrument System), Peer Bode (Bode Vocoder) and Andrew Deutsch (live mixing) – in a live improvisation from 2003.

“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 s 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.”-IEA

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Monique Buzzarte & Ellen Fullman : Fluctuations

Monique Buzzarte & Ellen Fullman : Fluctuations

Deep Listening Institute DL-CD-38

Monique Buzzart and Ellen Fullman began working together in June 2005. These collaborative compositions are rooted in tonalities that unfold with unexpected possibilities. Buzzart’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.

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Pauline Oliveros / Miya Masaoka : Koto Accordion

Pauline Oliveros / Miya Masaoka : Koto Accordion

“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.

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Jonas Braasch : Global Reflections

Jonas Braasch

Global Reflections

label: Deep Listening

ref: DL-34-2006

players: Jonas Braasch (Soundscapes, Soprano sax, Moog Bass, electronics)

A project blending soundscapes captured at various places and straightforward instrumental materials comprised of tonal, monochrome idiomatic improvisations. The various parameters found in the soundscapes ?whether rhythmic, density related or timbric elements- are used as the backbone around which the subsequent development of the instrumental, reinterpreting and rephrasing them, is articulated. In other cases the link between both realms emerges from the atmospheric quality of the materials in a more metonymic fashion.

Proyecto que mezcla paisajes sonoros capturados en diversos emplazamientos y materiales instrumentales de carcter convencional consistentes en improvisaciones idiomticas moncromas. Los diversos parmetros presentes en los paisajes sonoros ?ya sean de cracter rtmico, tmbrico o relativos a la densidad- se emplean como ncleo en torno al que se articula lo instrumental, que los interpreta y reformula. En otros cortes, el vnculo entre ambos mbitos surge del plano atmosfrico de los materiales, en forma ms metonmica.

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Pauline Oliveros : Lion?s eye

Pauline Oliveros

Lion?s eye

label: Deep Listening Institute

ref: DL 28-2006

players: The Berkeley Gamelan Ensemble, Carter Scholz

Exploring the compositional possibilities opened up by rhythmical structures akin to Balinese traditions, the first of the pieces explores them in an acoustic, carefully performed fashion. The second of the works presents a computer version of those very concerns rendered from an electronic outlook. The fascination for the shifting rhythmic cycles, their respective distancing through phasing, radically shifting their tempi in careful modulations permeates both works. The eastern ascendancy of the music recalls the smooth surfaces of their finishing if presented in terms of structures that unfold along time.

Explorando las posibilidades compositivas que las estructuras afines a la tradicin balinesa permiten, la primera de las grabaciones las contempla desde una perspectiva acstica, cuidadosamente ejecutada. La segunda de las obras ofrece una versin mediante ordenador de dichos temas, aunque plantendolas desde un ngulo electrnico. La fascinacin sentida por los cambiantes ciclos rtmicos, su mutuo alejamiento por medio del phasing, el cambio radical de sus tempos en cuidadosas modulaciones permea ambas obras. La ascendencia oriental de la msica recuerda las pulidas superficies de sus acabados aunque contempladas en forma de estructuras desarrolladas a lo largo del tiempo.

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