FRITZ HAUSER

 

Deep Time

Pauline Oliveros, accordion & Expanded Instrument System; David Gamper, Expanded Instrument System electronics, misc. small instruments; Urs Leimgruber, soprano & tenor saxophones; Fritz Hauser, percussion

DEEP TIME is a tape composition commissioned in 1991 by the Deep Listening Institute for Deep Listening Band.

Fritz Hauser's tape features recordings of sounding stones (manufactured by Arthur Schneiter) and various watches and clocks (thanks to the Bucher family in Switzerland for permission to record that family clock!). The performers improvise with the tape. On October 26, 1994 Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Urs Leimgruber and Fritz Hauser recorded 2 versions of DEEP TIME. Both of these 32 minute recordings are included here.

Fritz Hauser is a drummer and composer from Basel, Switzerland. He has developed his sound language in varied ways. From solo concerts, in diverse ensembles, through multi-media projects (theater dance film radio) and many recordings, he has contributed to the development of the drumset from a mere timekeeper to an instrument in its own right.

Known internationally as a composer, accordionist and teacher, Pauline Oliveros's work in improvisation, electronic techniques, teaching methods, myth and ritual, and meditative and physical consciousness raising has changed the course of American music. She left the University of California at San Diego in 1981, at the rank of full professor, in order to support her ideas, creative projects and collaborations. All of her work emphasizes attentional strategies, musicianship and improvisational skills. Oliveros' compositions have been performed worldwide.

Composer/performer David Gamper is especially concerned with music performance electronics. He received a BA in mathematics in 1967 from Bowdoin College, and returned there in 1969 to study composition with Elliott Schwartz and establish their electronic music studio. He then went on to the University of California at San Diego where he studied composition with Pauline Oliveros and Roger Reynolds and received his MA in music. Since moving to New York in 1989 he has been working primarily with Pauline Oliveros. He is director of development for the Expanded Instrument System (a project of the Deep Listening Institute) and performs and records around the world with Oliveros and as a member of Deep Listening Band.

Urs Leimgruber has been active for many years in the areas of contemporary improvisation, composition, jazz and new music. One of his earliest associations was as a member of the electric jazz/free music group 'Om' with Christy Doran, Fredy Study and Bobbi Burri, and he later formed the 'Reflexionen' quartet with Don Friedman and Bobby Burri in New York. His own projects have included 'Ensemble Bleu', 'Xylem', e_a.sonata 02 with the ARTE saxophone quartet, as well as a long association with Fritz Hauser: as a duo with the ongoing Music for saxophone and percussion; in the Leimgruber/Roidinger/Hauser trio; a trio with Joëlle Léandre; and a trio with Marilyn Crispell. More recently he formed 'quartet noir' with Marilyn Crispell, Joëlle Léandre and Fritz Hauser and a trio with Jacques Demierre and Barre Phillips.
Item number DL-CD-32; 2 CDs $20.00


Sounding Stones

Fritz Hauser/Therme Vals

"The thermal baths were erected layer by layer from local rock. The history of this location is young, it's atmosphere and effect on humans is considerable." - excerpt from writing by Peter Schmid (Translation Udo Breger)

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Fantasia Zolliologica

A composition with animal voices and noises from the zoo-logical garden Basel.

Fantasia zolliologica is a continuous composition.

Item number HF-CD-5; Compact disc $16.00



The Mirror

With Stephan Grieder. Recorded at Hofkirche Lucerne, Switzerland. A compilation using the organ at St. Leodegar (Grieder) with cymbals, drums and timpani (Hauser).

Item number HF-CD-4; Compact disc $16.00





Die Trommel/Die Welle

A contribution to a radio play series on Swiss Radio, this recording was created in the Basel Radio Studio late in 1987. In a series of increasingly intensifying sound pictures, the tonal possibilities of a drum, as well as its relationship to the surrounding room, are explored.

Item number HF-CD-3; Compact disc $16.00

 

Zwei

Duos with vocalist Lauren Newton, accordionist Pauline Oliveros, guitarist Christy Doran, pianist Stephan Grieder, percussionist Rob Kloet, and brassman Rene Krebs. Individually the 14 tracks display a great variety of tonal effects and events, creating unfamiliar ambiance or environment out of minute musical gestures.

Item number HF-CD-2; Compact disc $16.00



Solodrumming

"Recorded at the Berlin Martin Gropius-Bau, Hauser pits his wits and his kit against a building in whose acoustic paradise reverberation is of the order of seven seconds. This is a 'rediscovery' of the possibilities of solo drumming given a certain intellectual piquancy by his symbiosis between man and architecture." Russell Lack Wire Magazine

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on Troglodyte's Delight

The Deep Listening Band (Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis) with guests Fritz Hauser and Julie Lyon Balliette explore the sound properties of the Tarpaper Cave in Rosendale, New York, in a special underground series of sessions which followed a concert in the cave. Pieces include Quarry Query, Cannery Row, After Dinner With The Trogs, among others. "Alongside awe, a common thread that links this band of intrepid sound pioneers is that of respect - for each other's musicals minds - and...for their environment...a respect for the sacred aspect of space." Peter Blum (1990)

We just received some copies of this item. Please note that, while the CDs themselves are new, we do not have the original barrel fold covers. The CDs come unsealed, with a color cover and we will include a copy of the notes.

Item number DLB-CD-7; Compact disc $16.00
Item number DLB-C-2; Cassette tape $10.00


Item number DLB-C-2; Cassette tape $10.00

on Tosca Salad

A tasty variety of free improvisations excerpted from recordings of Deep Listening Band rehearsals and of the Band in concert. Band members Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster and David Gamper are featured exploiting the sonoric and spatial palette of the Expanded Instrument System. Performers Julie Lyon Rose, Fritz Hauser, Urs Leimgruber, Ben Neill, Joe McPhee, Joe Giardullo, Ellen Fullman, Nigel Jacobs and Elise Gould appear as guest artists. A wonderful chronological acoustic essay of the Band's work over the last two years. (1995)

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on Old Eyes & Mysteries

Partly dedicated to author, artist, psychotherapist IONE and her work with Woman's Mysteries, this recording of Joe McPhee's works features performers Joe McPhee, Fritz Hauser and Urs Leimgruber. (European import)

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on Linear B

An ancient Minoan language, Linear B proved to be as tough to crack as the Second World War Enigma code. Listening to Joe McPhee's music is like encountering a private language. Includes a striking version of Wayne Shorter's Footprints. Features performers Joe McPhee, André Jaume, Urs Leimgruber, Léon Francioli, Christy Doran, Raymond Boni and Fritz Hauser. (European import)

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Outstanding and provocative compositions for drumset solo. Eleven composers have accepted the opportunity to write solo pieces for Fritz Hauser's clearly defined drumset. Each work was created within an intensive dialogue between creator and perfomer. Composers include Bun-Ching Lam, Joey Baron, Warren Smith, Rob Kloet, Pauline Oliveros, Franz Koglmann, Stephan Grieder, John Cage, Pierre Favre, Robert Suter and Mani Planzer. (European Import)

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Fritz Hauser

Hauser is a drummer and composer from Basel, Switzerland. He has developed his sound language in varied ways. From solo concerts, in diverse ensembles, through multi-media projects (theater dance film radio) and many recordings, he has contributed to the development of the drumset from a mere timekeeper to an instrument in its own right. "Hauser's work is uniquely impressive. The massive CD Solodrumming is an exhausting experience but affords the best available representation of his technical range. Those unfamiliar with his work might do better to start with Die Trommel and its remarkable percussion-choir partner, Die Welle.... The latter features tympani, cymbals and tam-tam in an extraordinary exploration of resonance that equals the best percussion pieces by "serious" composers like Xenakis. Almost needless to repeat, Hauser comes highly recommended, and shouldn't on any account be missed." Richard Cook & Brian Morton, Penguin Book Guide to Jazz on CD, LP & Cassette

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