6:30 p.m.
Discussion w/ David Dove
David Dove, trombonist/educator and Director of Deep Listening Institute Houston, introduces his method of teaching improvisation to youth. Dove's work is noted in Wire Magazine May 2005 as ground breaking.
This presentation is an inaugural event for ISSUE: Deep Listening - a new adventurous educational program of creative music making co-sponsored by Deep Listening Institute and ISSUE Project Room.
Dove facilitates workshops on improvised music and art around the US and parts of Mexico, working in contexts as diverse as inner city community centers, homeless shelters, battered women's shelters, public and private high schools, dance studios, a church and Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening Space - where he was artist in co-residency with percussionist Chris Cogburn in the fall of 2002.
8:00 p.m.
Concert of Improvised Music
Featuring David Dove on trombone, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster on cello, and Pauline Oliveros on accordion.
David Dove's trombone improvisations can be described as the sound of lips, breath, voice and tongue amplified through a brass tube. Dove has been playing since the age of 11, performing a diverse range of musical styles. He teaches as MECA, an arts community center in Houston, TX and is the director of the Deep Listening Institute Houston.
Loren Kiyoshi Dempster was born in Seattle, Washington. In 1996 he graduated with a BA/BM from the University of Washington, where he studied cello with Raymond Davis, Dempster recently studied cello with Bonnie Hampton and received a n MM from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He began working with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1999. A regular among Campany musicians, he plays solo cello in Gavin Bryar's BIPED, and is recognized worldwide for his performance of John Cage's One in Cunningham's dance Interscape.
Pauline Oliveros is one of America's most vital composers. Deep Listening, her lifetime practice is fundamental to her composing, performing and teaching. She served as Distinguished Research Professor of Music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, Darius Milhaud Artist-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland CA and president of Deep Listening Institute in Kingston NY.