The Center For Deep Listening

HELLO BIRD, by Marie-Cécile Reber

Hello Bird is based on my composition “Pirol” for eight loudspeakers.

Musician and Composer with electronic musical instruments. Lives in Lucerne. Reber is searching for sound in nature and, having dealt with microscopic noise structures for years, she has found ways to transform them into pictorial soundscapes and use them as elements for her compositions. The performance of her compositions is often placed within a natural environment (within a natural setting) with the result that the natural sound environment blends into her composition and vice versa. www.mc-reber.ch

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FIVE MOVEMENTS FIVE SOUNDS, by Bob Marsh

Bob Marsh works with shapes lines sounds movements words ideas colors.

EPIPHANY, by Joseph Vasinda

Epiphany is part of a larger series called Psalms and Meditations, which is being written as a part of Vasinda’s dissertation. It focuses single-mindedly on the performer’s experience and the physical sensation of generating sound as a means of meditation and relaxation.

Joseph Vasinda was born in 1995 near Dallas, Texas. His focus in life is creating moments for others to express themselves, both as a teacher and as a composer. His focus in music composition centers around aspects of performance including improvisation and the physicality of performance, keeping the person or people playing the music in his mind constantly. He continues to play in order to build his own personal musical language, and to keep a stronger connection with other performers and the music itself.

BREATHE DEEPLY, by Drew Farrar

Drew Farrar is a composer, guitarist, and improviser currently based in Champaign Illinois. Farrar has performed with Adam Shead’s Adiaphora Orchestra, Matthew Miller’s Avant-Gardians, the Illinois Modern Ensemble, and COLAB. His works have been performed at the 21st Century Guitar Festival, ROCC Conference, 2019 NASA conference, and he was selected to New Music on the Point in 2020. Since 2021 Farrar has served as the director of New Music Mosaic. Farrar earned MMs in composition (2020) and guitar (2022) from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

MOVING INTERSPECIES ENCOUNTERS, by Nina Sääskilahti

I am a Senior Researcher at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland and engaged in arts-based inquiry. I am interested in pedagogies of listening, sound art, transformative and creative research practices as well as disability studies and environmental humanities. www.taideko.org

WILL YOU WALK WITH ME, by Rachel Epp Buller

A paired listening walk for a new soundscape.

Rachel Epp Buller is an art historian and visual artist, deep listener, feminist thinker, collaborator, professor, and mother of three

NOSTALGIA, by Bobby Barry

Bobby Barry is a writer and composer based in London. His music has been released by Bloxham Tapes and WIAIWYA. His most recent book is called Compact Disc (Bloomsbury).

gê morphḗ lógos (for objects in a landscape), by John Grzinich

To be performed outside in the open environment of your choice.

John Grzinich (US/Estonia) has worked since the early 1990s as an artist and cultural coordinator with various practices combining sound, moving image, site-specificity, and collaborative social structures. He is currently a visiting Associate Professor of New Media in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

PLANTING A SEED, by Shelley Burgon

Shelley Burgon is a harpist, composer and sound artist, specializing in experimental music. She has an extensive history as an improvisor and an interpreter new classical music; performing the works of composers such as Pauline Oliveros, Anthony Braxton, Yoko Ono, James Tenney, Berio and Bjork. Her music has been commissioned by The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Ne(x)tworks, and multimedia artist Katherine Behar. Shelley received her MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College where she studied with Pauline Oliveros, Maryanne Amacher, Fred Frith and Alvin Curran.