DREAMINGS
Dreaming music has long been a component of my creative endeavors. While in High School I began composing for orchestra as a result of dreams of hearing my own music. None of what I composed then came specifically from remembering what I'd dreamed, but the dreams sparked my imagination. When I started making Singing Masks, their voices and images led me into what I started referring to as Ceremonial Dream Time. Studying Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros, Ione, and Heloise Gold drew me further into that dream time realm. I have participated with Singing Mask Deep Listening pieces in Ione's Annual Dream Festivals from their beginning. What appears here in Dreamings is mostly documentations of many of those events. We are dreaming this!Have patience. It may take a few seconds to load in.
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1995-99
DreamListening Sticks
Rose Mountain, NM, 1999.Spirit Talk: Conversations with the Singing Masks
for Singing Masks, Bird/River Sounds and Electronics. Premiered for Spirituality House, Drew University, Nov. 7, 1998. Performed: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, October 26, 2001; Columbia College, Chicago, April 1999; Oberlin Conservatory of Music, April 1999; St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., April 1999; Plan B, Santa Fe, NM, August 1999; Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY, October 1999; Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ, April 2000.Spirit Dreams: Stories of the Singing Masks
Ione's Dream Festival, October 25, 1997. Performed at St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., April 1998; Center for Symbolic Studies, Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz, NY, July 1998; Drew University, October 1998; Columbia College, Chicago, April 1999; Korn Gallery, Drew University, April 2000. Review by Tom Bickley.Dreaming W...(ave)(edge) Gate
from dream, Rose Mountain, NM, August 4, 1996.rivedream through us
A Listening Ceremony in Seven Dreamings for Singing/Listening Masks, Riversounds, & Listener/Celebrants. Performed: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, October 19, 2001; Korn Gallery, Drew University, April 2000; Ocean County Library, Barnegat, NJ, April 1998 (sponsored by Composers Guild of New Jersey); St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church, Washington, D.C., April 1998; Ione's Dream Festival, in the Deep Listening Gallery, Kingston, NY, October 25, 1997 (sponsored in part by Meet the Composer); Aquifer Art Gallery, Barnegat, NJ, October 19, 1997 (sponsored by Composers Guild of New Jersey); Capital Music Festival XII, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, May 17, 1997 (sponsored by Composers Guild of New Jersey); Drew University, April 1995, Shawnee Valley, PA and Washington's Crossing State Park, PA in June, 1995, as part of Delaware River Sojourn Fesitval; Nutshell Art Center, Lake Huntington, NY, July, 1995; Linwood, NY, August 1995; Rockaway River Festival, October 1995.Spirit Dream A Mask Performance/Ceremony, with Pauline Oliveros.
Performed: Drew University, March 23, 1993, Great Hall.
2000-12
Remember, Dream
a Singing Mask Ceremony with Sound/Video Dreamscape by Norman & Ezra Lowrey. Presented at Ione's 14th Annual Dream Festival, Kingston, NY October 9, 2010 and Bennington College April 2, 2011, and Drew University Art Department korn Gallery, Friday, November 18, 2016.Mysterium Magnum: Singing Mask Dreamsong Meditations
Video Ceremony for Singing Masks, Electronics, the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse in Second Life and with Ezra Lowrey and Jan Harrison. June-December,2009.Onieroscape
for Singing Masks and Electronics. Premiered at Ione's 14 Annual Dream Festival, October 11, 2009.Into the Deep (Dreaming)
for Singing Masks, Surround Soundscape and Electronics. Performed with The Deep Listening Band (Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Stewart Dempster) for Ione's 11th Annual Dream Festival, October 13, 2006. The Concert Hall at Drew University.We Are Dreaming This: Transtemporal Dreaming
for Singing Masks, Video, Surround Soundscape and Electronics. Premiered at Ione's 10th Annual Dream Festival, October 9, 2005. The Concert Hall at Drew University, November 20, 2005.DreamWeaving
for Singing Masks, Soundscape and Electronics. Premiered at Ione's 6th Annual Dream Festival, October 6, 2001, Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY.*In Parallel: Dreaming Into Alternate Universes
for Singing Masks, Surround SoundScape, Narration, and Movement. Texts by Fred Alan Wolf. Premiered at Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY, as part of Ione's Fifth Annual Dream Festival, October 14, 2000. Performed: Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, December 7, 2001.2013-16
Dreaming Into 2016
From Ione's 21st Annual Dream Festival, Overnight for Dreaming Avatars, Dreaming Into 2016
Dec. 31, 2016 - Jan. 1, 2017
Dream Shadows Dream
Silent Video of Singing Masks, Automata, Shadow Play by Norman Lowrey. Music by Caleb Lowrey. Performed live with Singing Masks, Automata, and Musical Accompaniment for Ione's 18th Annual Dream Festival, October 19, 2013, Deep Listening Space, Kingston, New York. What's shown here is the original silent video with the audio recording of the live performance added.
2017
Dreaming/Remembering Pauline Oliveros
A simple slideshow of photos of Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) to accompany a soundscape created for live performance memorial tributes to her. The soundscape is the result of a brief dream I had of Pauline on February 17, 2017.
Dreaming Pauline Oliveros in Kingston
Presentation of "Dreaming Pauline with Singing Masks +" by Norman Lowrey, with Theo Lowrey performing on accordion, for the Kingston, NY Midtown Arts District A Celebration Tribute for Pauline Oliveros, held March 19, 2017 in Kingston City Hall. introduction by David Felton.
Dream Shadows Dream
Dream Shadows Dream, as presented at the International Symposium on Adaptive Technology for Music and Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Video excerpt by Carole Ione. October 20, 2017.
Dreaming/Remembering Pauline Oliveros
A simple slideshow of photos of Pauline Oliveros (1932-2016) to accompany a soundscape created for live performance memorial tributes to her. The soundscape is the result of a brief dream I had of Pauline on February 17, 2017.
Dreaming Pauline Oliveros in Kingston
Presentation of "Dreaming Pauline with Singing Masks +" by Norman Lowrey, with Theo Lowrey performing on accordion, for the Kingston, NY Midtown Arts District A Celebration Tribute for Pauline Oliveros, held March 19, 2017 in Kingston City Hall. introduction by David Felton.
Dream Shadows Dream
Dream Shadows Dream, as presented at the International Symposium on Adaptive Technology for Music and Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Video excerpt by Carole Ione. October 20, 2017.
2018
Remembering Rose Mountain Dreaming Sounding
Interactive html5 app created for the Deep Listening Retreat n honor of Pauline Oliveros held at the Ratna Ling Retreat Center, Cazadero, CA, Aug. 23-26, 2018. https://norlowrey.net/rose/
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Sounding the Long DreamSounding the Long Dream Winter into Spring, 2018. The full sequence of Singing Mask soundings from February through April, celebrating the Long Dream Journey in my new home with Liza in Mount Tabor, New Jersey. April 22, 2018
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Dream of RealityDream of Reality / Reality of Dream. April 10, 2018.
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Dreamtime PerspectivesDreamtime Perspectives / Spirit Protectors. April 9, 2018.
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Fox DreamingFox learning his dream of an April 2nd snow is not a dream. Or is it? Anyway, he’s content with his indoor home on the stairwell wall.
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Dreaming Avatars
DO AVATARS HAVE DREAMS? SURE THEY DO!
5-minute condensed: Overnight for Dreaming Avatars A Virtual Celebration of the New Year in Second Life Across 9 Time Zones for Carole Ione’s 23rd Annual Dream Festival, 2:00 pm, Sun. Dec. 31, 2017 - 6:00 am, Mon. Jan. 1, 2018 Second Life Time (Pacific). Posted January 2, 2018. |
2019
Ganesha Dreaming
Ganesha summer dreaming into winter, of sunlit eye while resting on his wall. February 10, 2019.
Deep Dreaming
Deep Dreaming with Humming Pera (aka Tina M Pearson), Dreambird Timeless (aka Carol Ione), and North Zipper (aka Norman Lowrey) during Ione's 24th Annual Dream Festival Overnight for Dreaming Avatars in Second Life. January 1, 2019.
Dream Festival 2018/19
A Featured Event of Ione’s 24th Annual Dream Festival
Overnight for Dreaming Avatars in Second Life
A Virtual Celebration of the New Year Across 9 Time Zones
from Monday, Dec. 31, 2018 at 2:00pm Second Life Time to Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 6 am SLT
(SLT = Pacific Time Zone). January 1, 2019.
2020
Excerpts from Dream Shadows Dream
Realized at Carole Ione’s 25th Annual Dream Festival Marathon of Dreamers, 0202-2020, Fair John Art Space and Music Salon, Kingston, NY. Video by Gloria Waslyn and Norman Lowrey.
DREAM SHADOWS DREAM
for Singing Masks, Automata, and Electronics
By Norman Lowrey
First presented with Caleb Lowrey for Ione’s 18th Annual Dream Festival, October 27, 2013 in Kingston, NY. Our version now is dedicated to the Deep Listening Dream Shadow Dreaming Spirit Pauline Oliveros.
All present are invited to join in this dreaming: listening, sounding, moving. All are welcome to play with shadows in Deep Listening joy.
What do shadows dream? Are shadows dreams? Are we dreaming shadows? Do shadows dream us? What is the source of the light casting the shadow Dream? What do shadows sound? How do shadows listen? If Pauline Oliveros is a source of light for us, are we her dreaming shadows? Or, as the objects on which her light shines, are we mindful of the shadows we cast? Are we dreaming this?
DREAM SHADOWS DREAM
for Singing Masks, Automata, and Electronics
By Norman Lowrey
First presented with Caleb Lowrey for Ione’s 18th Annual Dream Festival, October 27, 2013 in Kingston, NY. Our version now is dedicated to the Deep Listening Dream Shadow Dreaming Spirit Pauline Oliveros.
All present are invited to join in this dreaming: listening, sounding, moving. All are welcome to play with shadows in Deep Listening joy.
What do shadows dream? Are shadows dreams? Are we dreaming shadows? Do shadows dream us? What is the source of the light casting the shadow Dream? What do shadows sound? How do shadows listen? If Pauline Oliveros is a source of light for us, are we her dreaming shadows? Or, as the objects on which her light shines, are we mindful of the shadows we cast? Are we dreaming this?
Dream Festival 2019/2020
5'23" condensation of Ione's 25th Annual Dream Festival dreaming in the New Year during the Overnight for Dreaming Avatars in Second Life. The event was held over a span of 12 hours and included Avatars located across 9 time zones, from Central European Time to Pacific Standard Time. Sounding was occurring throughout triggered by virtual instruments and included sampled excerpts from Pauline Oliveros' Ghost Dance and Crone Music, sustained singing bowls, and Norman Lowrey's In Parallel: Dreaming into Alternate Universes. January 1, 2020.
2021
Dream Action Theater
A bit of Pop Up Dream Action Theater at Deep Listening Plaza, Kingston, NY, as part of Carole Ione’s 26th Annual Dream Festival, 12:00 noon, February 22, 2021.
dream shadows dream, 2021
Dream Shadows Dream presented via Zoom for Ione's 26th Annual Dream Festival, Feb. 21, 2021.
2022
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, Theo 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.
Pauline Dreams at Mills
Pauline Dreams: A Sonic Dream Mandala by IONE (December, 2021), presented on April 21, 2022 for Music in the Fault Zone, Experimental Music at Mills College (1939 to the present), Ione’s 27th Annual Dream Festival, and in celebration of Pauline Oliveros’ upcoming 90th birthday. Performers were Ione, Anne Hege, Brenda Hutchinson, and Jennifer Wilsey, with Video Montage by Norman Lowrey. What appears here is a mix of the montage together with video of the live performance. April 21, 2022.
RayBird Dreams
RayBird Sings a Tiny Late Afternoon Dream for Ione's 27th Annual Dream Festival. April 21, 2022.
2023
PAULINE DREAMS by IONE
Brief excerpt from PAULINE DREAMS by IONE
for Ione’s 28th Annual Dream Festival Retro-Futurism
with Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
December 17, 2023
for Ione’s 28th Annual Dream Festival Retro-Futurism
with Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
December 17, 2023
Contact:
nlowrey@drew.edu
nlowrey@drew.edu