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Welcome. Here you will find music & sound; poetry, visual art & musings. I am a multi-disciplinary artist and a Quaker. I seek to include body, mind & spirit into an integral artform and spirituality - not avoiding shadow, but holding it tenderly. In listening, I seek to be led by and faithful to a deeper voice that is heard through inner and outer awareness; to listen for the muse in myself and others; to build peaceful community.
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Experiments in Truth CD My 2005 solo album. Contemplative, experimental electro-acoustic music. Flutes, spoken word, electronics, percussion.
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Listening in Tongues - July 11, 2008
When we notice a Divine Spark in ourselves and others...
When we hear Truth underneath words we disagree with...
When we find beauty in unexpected places...
We are Listening in Tongues.
This CD is the result of a spiritual quest to listen deeply and respond faithfully to the promptings of the spirit. This quest has taken me into diverse territories that don't always fit any particular musical genre or even a single definition of what music is.
On this CD you will hear everything from quena (a notch-blown bamboo flute), frogs, and drums, to air conditioners and amateur astronomers making their own telescopes.
Play List (click to listen):
Spirals
Bells Cry Bells
Vespers
Hudson River Dance
Metamorphosis
Dreaming in the Proximity of Mars: The Power to Heal
Stargrind
Backyard Cooling
Sounds & Emotions - June 28, 2008
"Experimental music for experimental people."
One of the tracks from my new CD
Listening in Tongues was recently featured on fmbrussel98.9 radio in Brussels, Belgium. You can listen to the program,
Sounds & Emotions here! After you follow the link, click the red speaker on the right to listen.
Stargrind - June 13, 2008
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In St Petersburg Florida, there is a group of
amateur astronomers, who
make their own telescopes. They start with big, thick circles of glass and grind them down by hand using ceramic tiles, water and increasingly fine grades of grit. After hundreds of hours, they have a very precise concave surface which they coat with a thin layer of aluminum. This becomes the magnifying mirror that is the heart of the telescope. When I first heard about this in the spring of 2005, I was captured by concept that in order to view the vast interstellar galaxy, these people had to manipulate the tiniest particles of glass. Metaphysically, It struck me as a process parallel to the meditative practice of finding cosmic awareness by going inward ever more deeply. I was impressed by the physical discipline and the repetition required reminded me of some movement meditations. Then the question struck me: "I wonder what it sounds like!?"
I showed up during one of their Saturday morning grinding sessions and made some field recordings which I incorporated into the intergalactic musical journey "Stargrind". I wrote this piece in the spring of 2005. During a residency at the
Atlantic Center for the Arts in June & July of that year, I collaborated with
Diana Slattery who created a live video performance to go with the music. With the help of
Pauline Oliveros, I adapted the piece for 8 channel surround sound spatialization. Diana & I performed it in an immersive dome theater environment at ACA.
Stargrind is one of the tracks on my new CD, Listening in Tongues. Instrumentation is field recordings of the Telescope Lab,
Audiomulch and recorder.