Io and Her and the Trouble With Him -
A Dance Opera in Primeval Time
Io and Her and the Trouble With Him - A Dance - Opera
in Primeval Time Written and directed by Ione Music and sound
design by Pauline Oliveros A collaborative venture among artists
of all types, this dance-opera is a multimedia panorama of
experimental theatre and technical virtuosity that includes aerial
ballet, masks, video projection, a sinister thousand-eyed monster,
and a highly imaginative electronic soundscape. The one-act story,
set in primeval time, retells the myth of Io from a matriarchal
perspective. Io, Argivian priestess, is transformed by a terrible
spell and roams the world, lovely but tormented. While enduring
entrapment by Argus, the terrible monster, she is befriended by
the brilliant Bird who helps her discover the key to her escape.
Only upon her arrival in Khemt (Ancient Egypt) does she begin to
understand the true mystery of what her journey has been about and
its meaning for the future of the world.
Solo - Duo - Poetry - Cecil Taylor +
Pauline Oliveros
Cecil Taylor and Pauline Oliveros recorded live
October 5, 2008 at the opening of EMPAC in Troy, NY. 32 minutes of
Taylor solo, 16 minutes of Oliveros solo, 22 minutes of
Taylor/Oliveros duo. includes Floating gardens: The Poetry of
Cecil Taylor (75 minutes)
Interface: Recording Field, H -
Pauline Oliveros, Curtis Bahn, Tomie Hahn, Dan Trueman
"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.
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
Pauline Oliveros & the University
of Michigan Digital Music Ensemble
Pauline Oliveros & the University of Michigan
Digital Music Ensemble, directed by Stephen Rush. This DVD,
recorded live at University of Michigan, features three of
composer and performer Pauline Oliveros s compositions: Sound
Piece; Sound Fishes; and Heart of Tones.
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PAULINE OLIVEROS
Four Meditations / Sound
Geometrics, 2 pieces for Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra,
Water Above Sky Below Now
Morphine presents Water
Above Sky Below Now from pioneering American composer
Pauline Oliveros and Ione. An experimental musician and educator,
Oliveros is the creator of the deep listening practice _highly
attentive full body audition. She is joined on the album by
author, improviser of spoken word and sonic vocals Ione, artistic
director of the former Deep Listening Institute founded by
Oliveros. The three-part improvisation was produced using
Oliveros' Expanded Instrument System (EIS), an electronic
sound-processing environment that allows improvising musicians to
transform their own acoustic input in real time. Here, her
specially tuned digital accordion--accompanied by Ione's vocals
and spoken word is converted via EIS , manipulated, and diffused
through multiple channels. "The EIS imperative (and improvisation
imperative)," Oliveros writes, "is to listen and respond: spatial
relationships and progressions are as important as the traditional
parameters of music." The release of Water Above... is the latest
movement in Oliveros' six-decade-long career, which began at the
San Francisco Tape Music Center in the '60s and was distinguished
with the William Schuman Award for lifetime achievement in 2009.
Needle Drop Jungle - Deep Listening
Band
May 30th, 2012 marked the 80th birthday of American
visionary musician Pauline
Oliveros. Needle
Drop Jungle is a continuation of the celebration.
Together with bandmates Stuart
Dempster and David
Gamper, Oliveros and company churned up a vigorous storm
at their January 2011 residency in Seattle, captured on this
double vinyl release. With the help of staff at DXArts, the Deep Listening Band recorded
impromptu downpours unhindered by technical issues, a peak in
their collective creative output. Suddenly and unexpectedly, David
Gamper died on September 27th, 2011. Needle
Drop Jungle thus includes the brightest moments from what
have sadly become the last recordings of this exceptional trio.
Along with the simultaneously released Pauline Oliveros Primordial/Lift
2LP, this title completes a tetralogy of Oliveros releases on
Taiga that started with the Deep Listening Band Then
& Now and Timeless
PulseTrio
2LPs. Needle Drop
Jungle was mastered by James
Plotkin, cut direct to metal and pressed on 200 gram
virgin vinyl in an edition of 500. It comes packaged in a
double-wide raw brown cardstock jacket with essays by the band and
a flooded pocket. The jacket is encased in a custom slipcase, with
gorgeous photographs by Michael
S. Carlson from deep within the expansive Taiga forest's
southern edge.
The Minexcio Connection: Live! At The
Rosendale Cafe
One of the most unexpected yet fruitful partnerships
of recent years: in the mid-1990s, Pauline Oliveros, electronic
music pioneer and sage of the environmental-drone, began working
with Reynols, the prolific and resolutely undefinable Argentinian
group. Their first joint effort sent Oliveros' music through the
rigours of Reynols' heavily processed studio treatments; THE
MINEXCIO CONNECTION: LIVE! AT THE ROSENDALE CAFE finds them
collaborating on-stage in real time. Recorded in August 2000
during Reynols' first trek through North America, they offered up
a version of "Six For New Time" (originally composed by Oliveros
for Sonic Youth's GOODBYE 20th CENTURY LP), along with
idiosyncratic throat-singing and hypnotic dream/dronescapes. The
venue may have been a small cafe in rustic upstate New York, but
the sonic results sound like emanations from the deepest of Deep
Listening caves under the earth. - Roaratorio
"The Minexcio Connection: Live! At The Rosendale Cafe" is an
excellent live collaboration between the one and only Pauline
Oliveros and the equally singular Reynols (or No Reynols in this
case, since Miguel Tomasin was not present). If I have my facts
right, and I probably don't, this is one of Reynols' first
American live performances, and I couldn't think of a better
christening than as trio support for Oliveros, who of course is
one of the earliest proponents of the concept of Deep Listening,
which has has an undeniable impact on many of today's tribal,
minimal, noise brigade. In this capacity, Oliveros plays accordion
and some unorthodox throat singing as Reynols handles most of the
other noise makers (ranging from electric guitar and "cow's nails"
to mouth harp, marmonia, didgeridoo, etc), but very little of this
could really be considered noise. Environmental free drone bliss
is closer to the mark, as these four extended tracks (including
"Six For New Time," which was covered recently on their "Goodbye
20th Century" LP) paint living sound pictures populated by
evolving contemplative hiss, hums and reverberating textures that
will stay with you long after the needle's lifted. This is the
ultimate in spontaneous dream music, and I also happen to think
it's pretty cool that Miguel is credited with "inaudible
presence." - Lee Jackson THE BROKEN FACE (SWEDEN)
To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe
in Recognition of Their Desperation
“Shortly after it was published in 1968 the SCUM
Manifesto by Valerie Solanas fell into my hands. Intrigued by the
egalitarian feminist principles set forth in the Manifesto, I
wanted to incorporate them in the structure of a new piece that I
was composing. The women's movement was surfacing and I felt the
need to express my resonance with this energy. Marilyn Monroe had
taken her own life. Valerie Solanas had attempted to take the
life of Andy Warhol. Both women seemed to be desperate and caught
in the traps of inequality: Monroe needed to be recognized for
her talent as an actress. Solanas wished to be supported for her
own creative work. Commissioned by the Music Department of Hope
College, Holland Michigan, To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe
in Recognition of Their Desperation had its premiere in 1970.
Though everyone knew Marilyn Monroe hardly anyone recognized
Valerie Solanas or took her Manifesto seriously. I brought the
names of these two women together in the title of the piece to
draw attention to their inequality and to dedicate the piece.” –
Pauline Oliveros.
This LP contains both the 1970 Hope College premiere, performed by
a 14-piece ensemble, and a 1977 recording from Wesleyan
University, performed by a 43-piece orchestra. Roaratorio is
proud to present the first commercially available release of this
eerie, beautiful, and important Oliveros work. Cover artwork by
Judith Lindbloom. Download coupon included.
"Much of Oliveros's aesthetic is best understood as environment,
areas of aural doldrums providing momentary and slightly queasy
resting points, like the requisite standing back from a massive
architectural work to take in the whole before venturing back in.
To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe
"The hallmarks of Oliveros's later philosophy and aesthetic are
brought into direct play with politically-charged expressionism.
Kudos to Minneapolis-based Roaratorio Records for uncovering such
a significant work, a piece of music that will probably scare the
living shit out of you. Valerie Solanas would be proud." -
Clifford Allen, Paris Transatlantic
Primordial / Lift
Primordial/Lift is a continuation of Pauline
Oliveros' 80th birthday celebration. This double vinyl record
contains the previously-unreleased second performance of
Primordial/Lift from September 25th, 2010. The first performance
of this work, which took place in 1998, was released on CD in both
edited and full-length versions. Interpreting a score penned by
Oliveros in 1998, Anne Bourne, Andrew Deutsch, Miguel Frasconi,
David Grubbs, Jason Kao Hwang and Suzanne Thorpe joined Oliveros
at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn to divulge this bizarre and
surreal sound work. Centered around a low frequency oscillator,
the group swirls cello, voice, sampler, glass drones, e-guitar,
violin and V accordion into a molten mass dropped from outer
space.
Octagonal Polyphony: Deep Listening Band
Deep Listening Band January 2011 residency and
concert at Town Hall Seattle produced enough material for both a
CD and an LP on Important Records, and a double LP on Taiga
Records. The subsequent summer consisted of well over 100 hours of
listening on my part along side DXArts technical wizard Michael
McCrea who himself has between 150 and 200 hours of listening and
editing in this multifaceted project.
Oliveros, Pauline / Zeena Parkins - Fundação de Serralves Series
001
"Lucky Kitchen was a legendary experimental sound
publisher beginning in New York in the 1990’s, drawing to a close
in Barcelona in the mid 2000’s. Lucky Kitchen has come back only
for the purpose of producing the Presença Series of 12” vinyl
editions to highlight and preserve select recordings from the
Serralves Foundation archive.
The experimental sound program running at Porto’s Fundação de
Serralves is one of the most expansive and important in Europe. It
was with great pleasure that the curator of the program, Pedro
Rocha, and artists Bergman & Salinas worked with the archive
of the Serralves program to produce the Presença Series of 12”
vinyl editions to highlight and preserve select recordings from
the Serralves archive.
The first edition, a beautiful split 12” audiophile vinyl (artwork
by Michelle Grabner and design by Remco Van Bladel), features the
sound work of Pauline Oliveros and Zeena Parkins."
Pauline Oliveros - excerpt from a concert recorded on September
10th, 2001.
Zeena Parkins - excerpt from a concert recorded on February 15,
2004. 180 gram vinyl lp (due to size
and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the
price will be adjusted as needed)