Grace Woodard is a sounder, mover, writer, Deep Listening facilitator, and licensed social worker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work considers natural rhythms, somatic awareness, and community as ways of fostering resilience and connection.
An adaptation of Pauline Oliveros’ Breath Improvisation.
Charlotte Adams / Vortichez makes electroacoustics and is a certified Deep Listening practitioner.
This is a solo piece. It could also be adapted as a guided meditation for a group, though group members would follow the instructions as individuals.
Fred Everett Maus is a musician, writer, and teacher. He is a certified teacher of Deep Listening and of Mindfulness Meditation. He is co-editor of the recently published Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness.
From a series of three scores that explore object materiality and social conditions
Kevin Logan is an artist, researcher, and educator based in London, UK. His work engages cross-disciplinary fields and incorporates installation, sound, moving-image, and performance. Kevin has exhibited and performed internationally, including: The ICA, London; The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; The Pompidou Centre, Paris; V2_Institute, Rotterdam; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei. In 2018 he completed a PhD with the research organization CRiSAP, University of the Arts London. This practice-led research explored sonic thinking through pedagogic and curatorial outcomes.
I wrote this score for the Daily Deep Listening sessions hosted by Fifth House Ensemble on Zoom in summer of 2020, when we were all isolated due to the pandemic. This score was performed on June 17, 2020.
Ellen Denham teaches voice and directs the opera program at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi. She has been interested in Deep Listening since studying the work of Pauline Oliveros while working on her doctoral thesis, “Improvisation as a Generative Tool for New Opera: An Exploration of Methods and Parameters.” During much of 2020, she participated in daily Deep Listening sessions on Zoom with members of Fifth House Ensemble.
Greg Nieuwsma is an American living in Krakow, Poland. Nominally a guitarist, he dabbles in any musical instrument he can get his hands on, and even tries to squeeze music out of non-instruments.
A native of Seoul, Korea, oboist Grace Hong enjoys a diverse career as soloist, chamber musician and teacher. She performed with the Chicago Symphony for their 2008 European tour under maestro Bernard Haitink, and many other concerts including two CSO resound recordings: Mahler symphony no.6 and Grammy Award-winning Shostakovich Symphony no.4, and Beyond the Score programs. Grace is a dedicated educator, currently serving on the faculty at the New Music School and has a private studio in Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her husband and beautiful daughters, JiYoo and SeoEe.
