A video composition, composed as part of the Cybernetic Arts Project 1984. Funded through a commission awarded by the Inter-Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. (11 minutes)

Now out as a DVD-R. Includes excerpts of Pauline Oliveros' Epigraphs in the Time of Aids with the Deep Listening Band and Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument.

Filmed at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center on July 22, 2000. Five Improvisers; Sheri Cohen, Renko Ishida Dempster, Stuart Dempster, John Dixon, Tonya Lockyer. ROOM was founded in December 1998 by Sheri Cohen in a performance at Seattle's Velocity. Cohen describes "The structure is the context. These four people. Their skills, interests, moods. This room. This period of time. These musical instruments. The way the audience is sitting. We have chosen to work specifically without discussion. The intent is to emphasize listening and receptivity - a tangible quality of attentiveness."

A 33 minute video tape exploring metaphors of spirit and ecology using sounds and images collected in Zimbabwe, Africa.

IRIS, the second CD release from the duo Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood) on the Deep Listening label, is also their first video release. The DVD has the same sonic material as the music on the CD, but it features video pieces by the duo's favorite live-video performers, including Benton-C Bainbridge, Betsey Biggs, Fi$h2000, Madeleine Gallagher, Dawn Haleta, David Lublin, Jonathan Lee Marcus, Olivia Robinson, skfl, Diana Reed Slattery, Jack Turner and Walter Wright. These pieces emphasize the spontaneity of the artists' live performances, the practice of using "found" materials, and suggest the emergence of a regional aesthetic stemming from the recent hotbed of media performance centered around Troy, New York.

Stephan Moore is a composer, improviser, audio artist, sound designer and software programmer from Marquette, Michigan, currently based in New York City. His work is grounded in the collection and investigation of environmental sound recordings and a fascination with the perception and properties of acoustic environments. Performances and installation artworks make use of multi-channel arrays of his Hemisphere speakers. He maintains several ongoing collaborations with diverse musicians, live-video artists and choreographers. He is currently the Sound Supervisor of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Scott Smallwood was born in Dallas, Texas, and grew up at 10,000 feet in elevation in the Colorado Rockies. When Smallwood was 10 years old, his father gave him a cassette tape recorder, and ever since he has been fascinated by the possibilities of recorded sound. His work deals with real and abstracted soundscapes based on a practice of listening, improvisation, and phonography. Ranging from sonic photographs, studio compositions, instrumental pieces, and improvisations, the resulting pieces are often textural, always mindful of space and subtlety.

This release contains both a CD and DVD.

David and Gisela Gamper's live performance based collaboration, See Hear Now, arises from their shared fascination with natural sounds and images. In their individual work as artists, they have found ourselves drawn to images and sounds that emerge from nature and life. Gisela closely observes the world around her. Through her images we rediscover our own connections to the fabric of life. David¹s music emerges from the acoustic sounds of his piano, small instruments and found objects. When he expands them through live electronic transformations they retain the power of natural sound.

The DVD contains a live video and music improvisation recorded in an installation created specifically for this DVD. For their live performances they cover the walls of the installation space with stretched spandex, then set up mirrors, so that the images‹like the sounds‹fill the air and the entire space. Here, they have created a scaled down version of the projector and mirror system, allowing them to document the performance for viewing on a TV or computer. They first performed and recorded in the surround sound field. Later, they mixed the recordings of acoustic instruments and the speaker sources into the 5.1 surround format on the DVD. The recording of the live performance they selected for this DVD was created and improvised in the moment. It represents the image and sound experience of a full See Hear Now performance.

Also on the DVD is "inside see hear now," a short documentary which explains some of the aesthetic and technical choices they have made for their collaboration of live music and video improvisations. This footage from a See Hear Now performance was recorded in their New York studio and shows the full scale of the installation.

History of the landmark James Brown House and neighborhood.

VHS videotape

Video of audio visual installation of the Near Death Experience and description of the composer's own experience. A meditative work for contemplation of mortality and perception of the beyond. (30 Minutes)

VHS video

"Recording Field, H" features several firsts: the first recording bringing together Pauline Oliveros and interface; the first video documentation of interface and their unusual instruments; the first video documentation of the sonic character pieces Streams and Pikapika; the first duo connecting shakuhachi and the bowed-sensor-speaker-array; finally, the first DVD released by Deep Listening Publications.

The odd-numbered tracks are electronic improvisations, created spontaneously with custom-made instruments. The even-numbered tracks feature Tomie Hahn as two radically contrasting sonic characters; in "Streams" each gesture of the dreamlike apparition recalls bodies of water, technology, a flow of information, transmission, and liquid states; as Pikapika, Tomie embodies a spunky character influenced by anime, Japanese dance, and bunraku. In both pieces Tomie wears a sensing device developed by Curtis Bahn. This interface enables Tomie to negotiate full control of all aspects of the virtual soundscape structure with her movements.

Pauline Oliveros - accordion and Expanded Instrument System (EIS)
Curtis Bahn - sensor bass
Tomie Hahn - interactive dance system and shakuhachi
Dan Trueman - sensor violin and bowed sensor/speaker array

Io and Her and the Trouble With Him - A Dance - Opera in Primeval Time - DVD-R

Written and directed by Ione
Music and sound design by Pauline Oliveros

A collaborative venture among artists of all types, this “dance-opera” is a multimedia panorama of experimental theatre and technical virtuosity that includes aerial ballet, masks, video projection, a sinister thousand-eyed monster, and a highly imaginative electronic soundscape.

The one-act story, set in primeval time, retells the myth of Io from a matriarchal perspective. Io, Argivian priestess, is transformed by a terrible spell and roams the world, lovely but tormented. While enduring entrapment by Argus, the terrible monster, she is befriended by the brilliant Bird who helps her discover the key to her escape. Only upon her arrival in Khemt (Ancient Egypt) does she begin to understand the true mystery of what her journey has been about and its meaning for the future of the world.

Dreams of the Jungfrau - DVD-R

Written and directed by Ione
Music and sound design by Pauline Oliveros

Dreams of the Jungfrau is a 20 minute experimental narrative video, set in an art deco hotel high in the Swiss Alps, that tells the story of a contemporary music vocalist revisiting scenes that may have taken place in her past. It is also the story of the hotel, its many odd inhabitants, and the oracles that guide them. The story assembles and reassembles itself in the viewer’s consciousness, testing the parameters of memory and dream and raising issues of sexual identity and artistic rivalry along the way.

An audio-art piece (in six versions) about the sound of the language of prayer, 61 minutes long, in 25 languages, recorded in West Berlin and mixed at the Electronic Music Studio of Stockholm and subsequently broadcast over radio stations in Germany, Holland, Canada, Australia and America.

A 60 minute hifi stereo multitrack composition of, and about the sound of, baseball as a reflection of the Americas.

1/2" Hifi stereo VHS

A hifi stereo videotape of long words in which shorter words are embedded, in increasingly complex configurations, based upon an uncollected long poem by Kostelanetz. Music by Gordon Jillson. (Duration, ca. 28 minutes)
3/4" Video tape

A hifi stereo videotape of long words in which shorter words are embedded, in increasingly complex configurations, based upon an uncollected long poem by Kostelanetz. Music by Gordon Jillson. (Duration, ca. 28 minutes)

1/2" VHS

A 55-minute retrospective of early video art, narrated by Kostelanetz and directed by Robert Boynton Weyr.

1/2" VHS

A succession of four-word poems, eight-word poems, and sixteen-word poems, sometimes accompanied by aural realizations of the same texts.

An elaborate, multi-dimensional video synthesis to accompany a continuous reading in German of the first four books of the New Testament as though they were a fugue.

Video tape

An videocassette of two formally experimental erotic narratives, respectively from More Short Fictions and Autobiographies. (Duration, 25 and 31 minutes)

Videocassette with hifi stereo sound and kinetic syntheses (1988)
1/2" VHS

Several endless streams of letters composed of overlapping words (including one string in German) enhanced in different ways to the music of Gordon Jillson. (Duration, ca. 30 minutes)

1/2" VHS tape