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Drew University Music Department 36 Madison Avenue Madison, New Jersey 07940 |
| Eastman School of
Music |
09/67-06/71 |
Ph.D., 1974 |
| M.M., 1970 |
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| Texas Christian University |
09/66-06/77 |
B.M., 1967 |
| Texas Tech.
University |
Summer/66 |
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| Texas Christian University |
09/65-06/66 |
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| Saginaw Valley College |
01/65-06/64 |
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| Texas Christian University |
09/62-06/64 |
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| Private
composition study |
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| with Dr. Samuel Jones |
09/64-08/65 |
| Rennselaer Polytechnic |
Guest Composer/Lecturer |
09/01-4/02 |
| Institute, Troy, NY |
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| Drew
University |
Professor of Music |
09/88-Present |
| Madison, NJ | Chair |
09/98-8/2011 |
| Chair, on rotating basis | 09/81-08/98 |
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| Associate Professor of Music | 09/81-09/88 | |
| Assistant Professor of Music | 09/77-08/81 | |
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In charge of Theory and | |
| Composition curriculum | ||
| Director, Electronic Studio | ||
| Stephens College | Instructor of Humanities | 09/72-8/76 |
| Columbia, MO | (no ranking here) | |
| Composer-in-Residence | 9/75-8/76 | |
| The Arts & Experience | ||
| The Arts & Creativity | ||
| The Arts & Nature | ||
| American Pop Culture | ||
| The Symphony, Ives to Berio | ||
| Composition Seminar | ||
| California State U., | Assistant Prof. of Music | 09/71-06/72 |
| San Diego, CA | Composer-in-Residence | |
| Composition | ||
| Advanced Theory | ||
| Orchestration | ||
| Form and Analysis | ||
| Hochstein School of Music | Instructor of Music | 09/69-06/71 |
| Rochester, NY |
Music History | |
| Delta College/Saginaw Valley | Instructor of Music | Summer/65 |
| College, Saginaw, MI |
Music Theory |
Professional Memberships
ASCAP
Composers Guild of New Jersey
Board of Directors, Deep Listening Institute
International Society for Improvised Music
Professional Work: (Last 35 years, in reverse order)
See web site http://www.norlowrey.net for photos and other documentation.
Dream Shadows Dream
for Singing Masks, Automata, and Electronics, in collaboration with Caleb Lowrey, presented at Ione’s 18th Annual Dream Festival, Kingston, New York, October 19, 2013.
Member of the organizing committee and presenter at the First Deep Listening Art/Science Conference held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Experimental Media Performing Arts Center in Troy, NY, July 12-13, 2013. Presented two Singing Masks works, In Whirled (Trance) Formations, performed with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, and ImpRov(ing)isation, performed solo with audience participation.
Mysterium Magnum: Singing Mask DreamSong Meditations
published as an iBook available through Blurb bookstore and iBookstore, released by Deep Listening Publications, May, 2013.
Choose to Listen: Crone Music for Pauline Oliveros
for Virtual Singing Masks and Virtual Accordions presented in celebration of Pauline Oliveros’ 80th birthday, with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse in Second Life and Pauline Oliveros and Ione participating live at Drew University, April 17, 2012.
Performed online with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse using virtual Singing Masks for the Newfoundland 2012 Sound Symposium, July 14.
Remember, Dream
for Singing Masks and Mixed Media with sons, Ezra and Caleb, at John Zorn’s experimental music space, The Stone in the East Village, NY, August 22, 2012.
“Connections: Singing Masks/Deep Listening/Ceremonial Dream Time,” essay published in the peer-reviewed Anthology of Essays on Deep Listening, published by Deep Listening Publications, May, 2012.
ImpRov(ing)isation
with Jason Calloway, Cello, and Norman Lowrey,
Singing Masks
in the Concert Hall at Drew University May 7, 2011.
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
OneMany (OM)
for Singing Masks, Electronics
and the Avatar Orchestra
Metaverse in Second Life.
Created for and performed at the Fourth
Annual Conference of the International Society for Improvised Music,
Hosted by the University of California, Santa Cruz, December 6, 2010
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.
Imp/Rov(ing)isation
for Singing Masks and Electronics
Created for andperformed at the Third Annual Conference
of the International Society for Improvised Music,
hosted by Lamont School of Music, University of
Denver, December 7, 2008.
In Whirled (Trance)Formations
for Virtual Singing Masks
Created for the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse and
premiered in mixed reality performance in Second Life
and at Drew University, October 3, 2008
Orchestrophonia
for Orchestra and Mechanical Musical Instruments
Commissioned and performed by the Colonial Symphony, Paul Hostetter, Director.
Premiered May 12, 2007, Morristown Community Theater, Morristown, NJ
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
Private Prayers/Public Rituals: For Peace
for Singing Masks, Soundscape and Electronics
Presented on Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening Palace,
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 5, 2005;
The Concert Hall at Drew University, November 20, 2005
Private Prayers/Public Rituals
for Singing Masks, Soundscape and Electronics
Premiered at Ione's 9th Annual Dream Festival, October 27, 2004
Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY
Into The Light
for Singing Masks, Surround Soundscape, and Electronics.
Commissioned by Lament Interfaith House, Long Island
Premiered June 23, 2002, Long Island
DreamWeaving
for Singing Masks, Surround Soundscape, and Electronics
Premiered Ione’s 6th Annual Dream Festival,
Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY, October 6, 2001
Performed subsequently on Ione’s 7th
Annual Dream Festival,
Rondout Cultural Park, Kingston, NY, October 7,
2002
Invocation: Morning Walk With Buddha BigEars
for Singing Mask, Surround Soundscape, and Electronics
Premiered Drew University Music Department Concert Series,
Kirby Shakespeare Theater, April 23, 2001
RiverSoundMind
for Singing Masks, Surround Soundscape, and Electronics,
with text by Pauline Oliveros
Premiered Deep Listening Space Gallery
Community Café, Kingston, NY, March 25, 2001
Performed Drew University Music Department Concert Series,
Kirby Shakespeare Theater, April 23, 2001
In Parallel: Dreaming Into Alternate Universes
for Singing Masks, Surround Soundscape, Narration, and Movement
(Texts by Fred Alan Wolf)
Premiered Ione’s Fifth Annual Dream Festival,
Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY, October 24, 2000
ReVoicings
for Singing Masks, Voice & Electronics
by Norman Lowrey and Robert Carnevale
Performances: Roulette, New York City, December
8, 2000;
Korn Gallery, Drew University, April, 2000;
Premiered at Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY, October, 1999
Available on Deep Listening Publications, DL-14-2000 CD.
Spirit Talk: Conversations with the Singing Masks
for Singing Masks, Bird/River Sounds and Electronics
Performances: Roulette, New York City, December 8, 2000;
Korn Gallery, Drew University, April, 2000;
Deep Listening Space, Kingston, NY, November, 1999;
Plan B, Santa Fe, NM August, 1999;
St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Cathedral, Washington, D.C., April, 1999;
Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin,
Ohio, April, 1999;
Columbia College, Chicago, April, 1999;
Spirituality House, Drew University, Nov. 7, 1998.
Available on Deep Listening Publications, DL-13-2000 CD.
Spirit Dreams: Stories of the Singing Masks
for Singing Masks, Narrator, River Sounds and Electronics
Performances: Korn Gallery, Drew University, April, 2000 (Catherine Keller, narrating);
Columbia College, Chicago, April, 1999;
Center for Symbolic Studies, Stone Mountain Farm, New Paltz, NY, July 21, 1998;
Drew University, Oct. 22, 1998
Premiered at Ione's Dream Festival, October 25, 1997.
Available on Deep Listening Publications, DL-12-2000 CD.
Dreaming W...(ave)(edge) Gate
from dream, Rose Mountain, NM,
August 4, 1996.
Published by Deep Listening Publications.
Into the River of Longest Night: Celebrating Winter Solstice
for 4 Flutes, 4 French Horns, Xylophone, Narrator & Riversounds,
on a Poem by Theodore Roethke
Commissioned by the Drew University Chamber
Orchestra
for performance December 10, 1995.
riverdream through us
A Listening Ceremony in Seven Dreamings
for Singing/Listening Masks, Riversounds, & Listener/Celebrants.
Performances: Korn Gallery, Drew University, March, 2000;
Columbia College, Chicago, April, 1999;
St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Cathedral, Washington, D.C., May, 1998;
Ocean County Library, Barnegat, NJ, April 18, 1998 (sponsored by Composers Guild of New
Jersey);
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);
Rockaway River Festival, October, 1995;
Linwood, NY, August, 1995;
Nutshell Art Center, Lake Huntington, NY,
July, 1995;
Shawnee Valley, PA and Washington's Crossing State Park, PA, June, 1995, as part of Delaware River Sojourn Fesitval;
Drew University, April 29, 1995
Available on Deep Listening Publications, DL-11-2000 CD
from Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma
for Voices and Riversounds
Commissioned by Chaplain's office, Drew University
for performance at Baccalaureate, May, 1995;
performed also at opening ceremonies of Multicultural Awareness Day,
Drew University, September, 1995
Production grant of $50,000 from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
for implementation of Delaware River Soundings,
a collaborative conceptual art project in conjunction with
the Delaware Riverkeeper Network - seven ceremonial listening events
along and on the Delaware River, July-October, 1994.
Planning grant of $10,000 from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation
for planning Delaware River Soundings, described above, September-May, 1993-94.
Cyberfrancais Avance II
Software written for use by Marie-Pascale Pierreti in French 115, summer, 1994.
Spanish Language & Culture: The Day of the Dead in Mexico
Software written for use by Ada Ortuzar-Young in Spanish 13, spring, 1993.
Spirit Dream
A Mask Performance/Ceremony, with Pauline Oliveros.
Performed: Drew University, March 23, 1993, Great Hall.
Cyberfrancais Avance
Software written for use by Marie-Pascale Pierreti in French 101, summer, 1992.
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