Brief excerpt from PAULINE DREAMS by IONE
for Ione’s 28th Annual Dream Festival Retro-Futurism
with Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
December 17, 2023
Norman Lowrey is a maskmaker / composer / performance sound video artist
"The Singing Masks of Norman Lowrey brought the mysterious mythical world of dreams to Deep Listening Space during Ione's Dream Festival (October, 1997). The audience was transported immediately to a different dimension by the sound world created by the interaction of sounding mask and audio space eminating as natural surroundings. The reaction was peaceful yet electric."
Deep Listening Quote
Here’s one of my favorite quotes from the composer, performer, humanitarian and founder of the practice of Deep Listening, Pauline Oliveros. This one is accompanied by my very first Singing Mask, Earth Singer. February 16, 2024.
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The Witness by Pauline Oliveros
When I was unable to attend the presentation of The Witness by Pauline Oliveros at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 21, 2023, I participated telepathically and by way of doing an improvised merging of two previous versions. One a telepathic rendering of my contribution done May 29, 2021, when the scheduled event had to be cancelled due to rain and cold. The second when we were able to reschedule on July 23, 2021. I was honored to join The Talking Gong Trio
(Claire Chase, Susie Ibarra, Alex Peh, with Senem Pirler on electronics), IONE, JL Simonson, and Peter Wetzler. |
PAULINE DREAMS
by IONE |
TREE DREAMS
Brief montage from Tree Dreams presented at the Rail Trail Cafe on Larsen Family’s Stone Mountain Farm near New Paltz, NY, June 18, 2022. Norman Lowrey with Singing Masks, Theodora Lowrey on Accordion, JL Simonson on Guitar and Found Instruments.
Video footage and photos by Linda Law. Dedicated to listening to and dreaming with trees. |
"Much of the power and impact of Lowrey's work comes from the combination of archetypal material (in the appearance of the masks, gestures, and the sounds of water, percussion, and voice) and the collective participation of the audience. The pieces drew the listeners into various modes of parrticipation in a structurally strong and rightly intuitive flow of events. In that envelope of dreamtime, we listeners experienced a collective deep consciousness. This is music that transforms and heals."
SOUNDSCAPE:
RIVER OF BELLS
Commissioned by the Smithsonian's Freer|Sackler Galleries for inclusion in the "Resound: Ancient Bells of China" exhibit.
Contact:
nlowrey@drew.edu
