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.

Winter morning on a walk in local woods, Mount Tabor, New Jersey. January 8, 2020.

Fish meets up with Coyote and they have a glossolalia jam session. January 9, 2020.

Down at the pond in Mount Tabor, NJ, January 11, 2020.

In such a crazy world with so much suffering and inequity, I know I am so very fortunate to be able to pursue my joy in making these little instruments things, evolved from my Singing Masks. It makes me happy if they can bring pleasure to anyone else. Bird and Dragon were commission/requests from a friend made after my making the decision to offer these things on some kind of sale basis. January 10, 2020.

This one an automaton. February 1, 2020.

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?

Yet another dragon. What??? Trogdor the Burninator! To what depths will I descend? Well, it was a request. Yeah, right! February12, 2020.

A different kind of dragon. February 18, 2020.

At the pond, Mount Tabor, NJ, February 22, 2020.

Dream bird shadow box, made at a friend’s request, shown here with a couple fish companions with Arduino synth sounds, transforming into newest version sounding samples of struck singing bowls accompanied by some synth string sounds. February 27, 2920.

Longshadow walk, forward and back, March 1, 2020.

Wind chimes, chattering birds, shadow, snowdrops. March 4, 2020.

Amelia the Cat joins the shadows of Fish and Bird. March 6, 2020.