Oliveros Dempster Panaiotis - Deep Listening (1989)

Deep Listening _ 1989 (New Albion NA 022 CD)

"Band members Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis have captured the fantastic acoustics of the Fort Worden Cistern, a cavernous underground watertank which possesses an amazing 45 second reverberation time producing pure, smooth reverberation which overlaps the original sound. The recording employs composer Pauline Oliveros' accordion and voice; Dempster's trombone, voice, didjeridu, conch shell and garden hose; and composer/designer Panaiotis' voice, whistling, pipes and metal pieces.
"The sound is breathtaking: mysterious, pure, eerie wrap-around sound that sometimes imitates a heavenly chorus and sometimes a distant jet engine...a listening experience like no other."

Melinda Bargreen, in The Seattle Times

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Deep Listening

1. Lear _ 24'48''
2. Suiren _ 9'51''
3. Ione _ 17'30''
4. Nike _ 10'36''

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Deep Listening Band - The Ready Made Boomerang (1991)

A stunning second release from the Deep Listening Band's foray into the Fort Warden Cistern in 1988. Band members are Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis. Guests include Thomasa Eckert, vocals, and William O. Smith, clarinet. John Cage wrote a mesostic called The Ready Made Boomerang in reaction to his first encounter with the Deep Listening CD. Consequently, the following appears in the liner notes to the Boomerang CD: "It is with continuing admiration and deep thanks that this recording is dedicated to John Cage for his loving inspiration and wholehearted support."

§ A deep and fascinating electroacoustic musical voyage into the no-mind harbor...

1. Balloon Payment 0:45
2. Metalorgy 2:12
3. Seven-Up 2:39
4. The Ready Made Boomerang 10:28
5. Phantom 8:49
6. CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants) 19:54
7. Geocentric 10:54

Total: 56:04

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