source file: m1527.txt Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:06:18 -0400 Subject: DLB at Columbia U. From: David Beardsley Pauline Oliveros Foundation Presents D E E P L I S T E N I N G B A N D DECADE: TEN YEARS OF SONIC EXPLORATION SUSPENDED MUSIC, A Collaborative Project Of The Deep Listening Band And Long String Instrument Band, To Feature 100 FOOT-LONG STRING INSTRUMENT Premiere Works By PAULINE OLIVEROS, ELLEN FULLMAN, and PAUL D. MILLER Produced by Lauren Amazeen LOW LIBRARY ROTUNDA, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEPTEMBER 24 - 26 - 8:00 P.M. - FREE - The Deep Listening Band (DLB) - Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, David Gamper - have created and performed some of the most original sonic explorations of the past ten tears in site-specific acoustic environments from a cavernous cistern in Washington state to a lava cave in the Canary Islands. This September, DLB kicks off a season-long Decade celebration. Set in the vaulted marble arena of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Low Library at Columbia University, Suspended Music will feature the Long String Instrument (LSI) - a one-of-a-kind musical instrument with strings nearly 100 feet long stretching across the public space of the site. Suspended Music will feature the New York premiere of Epigraphs in the Time of AIDS, by Pauline Oliveros, and TexasTravelTexture by Ellen Fullman, creator of LSI. These works are featured on the new recording Suspended Music, recently released by Periplum. The DLB performance will also feature the newest incarnation of the Expanded Instrument System (EIS), a unique, computer-driven musical machine that is a part of the ongoing sonic evolutions of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. Following each of the three formal concert presentations, Paul D. Miller will create a special, informal sound environment, reimagining DLB compositions in a new work: Speak Spoke Spoken/Break Broke Broken: Depth Charge on the Deep Listening Zone - Deep Listening Band Decade Remix. Paul D. Miller's performance will include a special duet with Pauline Oliveros, and an informal lounge will be open in an adjoining space. Suspended Music will take place September 24 - 26 at 8pm in the Low Library Rotunda, Columbia University, Broadway at 116th Street. Admission is free. Further information can be obtained by calling (212)334-0237. The Expanded Instrument System (EIS) is an evolving electronic sound processing environment dedicated to providing improvising musicians control over various parameters of electronic transformation of their acoustic performances. 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 switches. In addition, they have access to shared processing resources, such as a special digital signal processing computer. The musicians and their instruments are the sources of all the sounds, which they pick up by 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 with additional software by Panaiotis of PanDigital Corporation and by Rick Stone. The Long String Instrument, a part of the EIS project, was created by composer Ellen Fullman. Architect Gabriella Gutierrez is collaborating on the EIS installation at Low Library.LSI is a hundred foot-long original instrument. The performers walk among groups of strings, bowing them with rosined fingers. The instrument produces a unique almost orchestral sound, based on the natural overtones of the strings. The physical scale of the instrument and the way the overtones interact with the space turn the site into a giant musical instrument. The LSI Band is made up of Ellen Fullman, Amy Denio, and Matthew Sperry. DLB (Pauline Oliveros-accordion, Stuart Dempster-trombone, David Gamper-winds and electronics) was formed in 1988, while recording its award winning Deep Listening CD for New Albion Records in a two million gallon cistern with a reverberation time of 45 seconds. DLB has continued to explore unusual acoustic spaces such as caverns, quarries and nuclear cooling towers. Several DLB Decade performances are planned for the 1998-99 season in New York. Original document @ http://www.artswire.org/pof/DLBlowPR.html -- * D a v i d B e a r d s l e y * xouoxno@virtulink.com * * J u x t a p o s i t i o n E z i n e * M E L A v i r t u a l d r e a m house monitor * * http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm