Open Spaces is a collection of compositions, essays and other writings by Marc Jensen, revolving around associations with place, and how our relationships with our environment can be translated into sound. Richly complex behavior emerges using only simple sets of instructions. These pieces are invitations to explore, to meditate on the conditions of one's own life, and to find out how individual actions come together to create a social whole.

Marc Jensen is a composer, performer, and improviser, who received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of Minnesota. Much of his work is oriented around composing relationships rather than specific sounds - setting up situations in which performers follow simple sets of rules to interact and produce an unpredictably complex whole, structures without content. His principle teachers have included Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Alex Lubet, and Doug Geers. Dr. Jensen holds a teaching certificate through the Deep Listening Institute, and has edited several books on Deep Listening. He has published articles in the journals Perspectives of New Music, Tempo, the Musical Times, and Cinema Journal.

earWorm is an improvisationally driven electroacoustic quartet of composer-performers. All of our music is performed live. As such, earWorm presents an immediate and immersive experience of collective improvisation. We take the listener through a sonic landscape forged as we discover it, each of us acting as vibrational tour guides. Musical actions unfold, results often unforeseen, and we playfully react in the moment of unfolding. Our combined style is as varied as our collective musical experience, dancing within a panoply of free-form jazz, blues, minimalism, electronica, trance, hip-hop, ambient, funk, rock, latin, classical, world, folk, and nearly everywhere in-between.

This self-titled debut CD is a kaleidoscopic collage of nearly seventy-eight minutes of music assembled from performances during 2008. All of the music was treated minimally during post-production and edited only for length to preserve the integrity of the live performance.

earWorm:
Elliott Miles McKinley - keyboards and laptop sampling, drum/percussion beats and loops, live mixing and effects processing.
Marc Jensen - accordion, toy-piano, slide-whistle, conch trumpet, tenor recorder, assorted percussion, voice.
Zachary Crockett - flutes, shakuhachi, ocarina, pan-pipes, Irish tin-whistle, assorted percussion, voice.
James E. Holdman - mandolin, slide lap-dulcimer, electric bass, mouthpieces, assorted percussion, ambient laptop samples, voice.

Special guests:
Doug Little - tenor saxophone and flute.
Scott Moses Murray - electric guitar.

Marking the Contours of the Eternal Moment is a collection of indeterminate scores and other writings by composer Marc Jensen, open to any instruments as means to explore making sound and performing in groups.

Marc Jensen is a composer, performer, and improviser, who received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of Minnesota. Much of his work is oriented around composing relationships rather than specific sounds - setting up situations in which performers follow simple sets of rules to interact and produce an unpredictably complex whole, structures without content. His principle teachers have included Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Alex Lubet, and Doug Geers. Dr. Jensen holds a teaching certificate through the Deep Listening Institute, and has edited several books on Deep Listening. He has published articles in the journals Perspectives of New Music, Tempo, the Musical Times, and Cinema Journal.