Deep Listening Band – Then & Now Now & Then

The Deep Listening Band was an improvisational group founded in 1988 by Pauline Oliveros as a “collaborative exploration of sound and of social interaction between musicians and others.” The group specialized in performing and recording in resonant or reverberant spaces such as cathedrals and huge underground cisterns including the 2-million-US-gallon (7,600 m3) Fort Worden Cistern which has a 45-second reverberation time. Oliveros, who coined the term “deep listening” to describe a practice of radical attentiveness, performs with accordion and the Expanded Instrument System (EIS), a performer controlled delay based network of digital sound processing devices designed to be an improvising environment for acoustic musicians. The four extended compositions compiled here capture the sonically rich and deeply imaginative quality of the group along with their core collaborator, the EIS. Read more about the EIS here. “Enginuity / Deep Hockets / Spatial Specialization,” is especially beautiful with its cascading delays alongside Stuart Dempster’s soaring trombone.

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