Cover art for Quintet by Timeless Pulse Description: CD on Mutable Music (inc Pauline Oliveros & Thomas Buckner etc)
Format: CD
Genre(s): Experimental / Abstract
Label: Mutable Music
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4Rating: 4
...according to our on 26 July 2007.



Phil thinks I'm some sort of muso musicologist just because I like boffin music, this is why he's given me the Timeless Pulse Quintet: "S/T" on (Mutable). This features Pauline Oliveros (pioneer of Deep Listening) on accordion plus four other collaborators on percussion, live-electronics and voice. Sometimes referred to as "beard music", this is the sort of stuff serious musicians do if they were making pieces for a theatre or dance production, art music if you please. Slow, long winded, concentrated and dynamic to the point of...oh, who knows. I should be as serious as the content of the CD, but I'm out of time. Get yer boffin swerve on.

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What their label says...

Timeless Pulse: Thomas Buckner, voice; George Marsh, percussion; Pauline Oliveros, accordion; David Wessel, live-electronics; Jennifer Wilsey, percussion

(Mutable 17527-2)

"Timeless Pulse sometimes recalls the soundscapes of Gunter Muller, Butch Morris, David Shea and AMM, and is thus recommended to fans of them and harmonious (yes, that¹s right, with harmony) free-improv."- Mark Keresman

Formed in 1993 in a residency at the Deep Listening Institute, the musicians of Timeless Pulse - whose members come from jazz, classical and electronic - make music together through listening and responding in the moment. The five compositions on this recording from 2005 are warm, compassionate tapestries of soft, rolling sounds performed by accordion, cymbals, drums, gongs, bells, chimes, sampled sounds, and voice.

Thomas Buckner has been singing, presenting, recording and producing composed and improvised music since 1972. He is currently co-producer with the World Music Institute of the Interpretations Series of contemporary music in New York City and founder and artistic director of the mutablemusic label.

George Marsh has been teaching and performing on drumset and percussion since 1954. He is currently touring with the David Grisman Quintet, and teaching at UC Santa Cruz and Sonoma State University.

Pauline Oliveros is a composer, improviser, founder and president of the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd. and a distinguished professor of music at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Mills College.

David Wessel co-directs the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California Berkeley where he practices and teaches live-performance computer-based music.

Composer/performer Jennifer Wilsey teaches percussion and percussion pedagogy at Sonoma State University and maintains a private studio in piano and percussion in Santa Rosa, CA.