The Deep Listening Band was founded in 1988

1988 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1988.-January-March:* January 1 – André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert....

 by Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....

, (accordionist, electronics and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

), Stuart Dempster

Stuart Dempster

Stuart Dempster is a trombonist, didjeridu player, improvisor, and composer.-Biography:After Dempster completed his studies at San Francisco State College, he was appointed assistant professor at the California State College at Hayward, and instructor at the San Francisco Conservatory...

, (trombonist, didjeridu player and composer) and Panaiotis

Panaiotis

Panaiotis , aka Peter Ward, is a vocalist and composer currently living in Albuquerque. He received his Master of Music degree from New England Conservatory and a Ph.D...

 (vocalist, electronics and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

). David Gamper

David Gamper

David Gamper is an American composer He has been a member of Pauline Oliveros's Deep Listening Band and the duo See Hear Now. -References:...

 (keyboards and electronics) replaced Panaiotis in 1990.

The band is named after Oliveros' term, concept, program and registered servicemark of the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., Deep Listening, and specializes in performing and recording in resonant

Resonance

In physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate at a greater amplitude at some frequencies than at others. These are known as the system's resonant frequencies...

 or reverberant spaces such as cathedral

Cathedral

A cathedral is a Christian church that contains the seat of a bishop...

s and huge underground cistern

Cistern

A cistern is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by their waterproof linings...

s including the 2 million USgals (7,570.8 m³) Fort Worden

Fort Worden

Fort Worden and accompanying Fort Worden State Park are located in Port Townsend, along Admiralty Inlet in Washington. It is situated on 433 acres originally built as a United States Army installation for the protection of Puget Sound. Fort Worden was named after U.S...

 Cistern which has a 45 second reverberation time.

They have collaborated with Ellen Fullman

Ellen Fullman

Ellen Fullman is a composer, instrument builder, and performer. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area...

 and her Long String Instrument with Suspended Music released by Periplum Records, Joe McPhee

Joe McPhee

Joe McPhee is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone...

 Quartet with Unquenchable Fire released by Deep Listening. They have also performed, recorded, and released a trope

Trope (music)

A trope or tropus may be a variety of different things in medieval and modern music.The term trope derives from the Greek τρόπος , "a turn, a change" , related to the root of the verb τρέπειν , "to turn, to direct, to alter, to change"...

 on John Cage

John Cage

John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...

's 4'33". Non Stop Flight released by Music&Arts in a 70 minute excerpt from the 4 hours and 33' trope.

Discography

• Then & Now, Now & Then (2008) double LP, Taiga Records
• Deep Time (2003) with Fritz Hauser, Deep Listening Label
• Unquenchable Fire (2003) with Joe McPhee Quartet
• Non Stop Flight (1996/1998) live album
• Sanctuary (1995)
• Tosca Salad (1995)
• Suspended Music (1993)
• The Ready Made Boomerang (1991) [note: recorded 1990]
• Troglodyte's Delight (1990)
• Deep Listening (1989)

• eturnal presence with Rafael Bejarano, Alan Tower, Jusse Nayeli, and Barry Hall