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Gusty Winds May Exist
Nancy Beckman, shakuhachi.
Tom Bickley, recorder.
Sounds of east and west, ancient and
contemporary,
meet in the new world as two virtuoso wind players
listen and bring to life new music.
Gusty Winds May Exist is a duo that began with a free
improvisation on a mountain in New Mexico, at the Advanced Deep Listening Retreat led
by Pauline Oliveros.
In free and structured improvisations, they listen, sonically converse,
and enjoy engagement with each other and the audience.
Their playing rewards listeners with
surprises, humor and warmth.
Nancy Beckman brings experience in the meditative solo tradition
as well as more extroverted techniques.
Tom Bickley brings experience performing medieval
and renaissance European music and new music using extended techniques.
The music created by Gusty Winds May Exist places these traditions in the same time and space and
explores the sonic world that results.
CD
- Gusty Winds May Exist (MetatronPress MPCD102R) available 25
October 1999 for $10 + $2 shipping & handling (to US addresses) please
email us regarding shipment costs to other countries.
- CD Press Release
Listeners' comments
- Like the warning on the Interstate south of Las Vegas, NM, which
inspired its name, 'Gusty Winds May Exist' floated by in dreamlike
inter-play of swirling sounds. Think of being the wind itself: only the
sound and dance of wind: whispering, wailing, whining, winking(!).
Beckman and Bickley's shakuhachi/recorder duets are like that. Watch out
for those gusty winds. -Norman Lowrey, composer/performer, sounding-mask maker
- Gusty Winds May Exist took me to places I'd never been. -Nan Moon, consultant
About the performers
Sounds
Performances
- 31 July 1999, Saturday, 7 pm, Plan B, Santa Fe, New Mexico, performance as part of
the Deep Listening Benefit
- 28 October 1999, Thursday, 2:30-5 pm, Guest lecturers, Center for Contemporary Music,
Mills College, Oakland California
- 28 October 1999, Thursday, 8 pm, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, California
admission $6-$10
- 29 October 1999, Friday, The Passageway, a concert with Maryliz Smith, Abbie Conant,
Tom Bickley, and Nancy Beckman. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1187 Franklin Street,
San Francisco, 8 pm, suggested donation $10
- 2 November 1999, Tuesday, Benefit Performance for the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Fremont,
California, time and location to be announced
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