The Ready Made Boomerang

by Deep Listening Band

The Ready Made Boomerang cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: New Albion
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 56:04
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: noises, Foster Reed, William O. Smith, Stuart Dempster

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Led by Pauline Oliveros alongside Stuart Dempster and Panaiotis, the ensemble traveled to a massive underground cistern to capture unprecedented natural reverberations. Using didgeridoos, accordions, and voices, 'The Ready Made Boomerang' sculpts intensely sparse, subterranean drones, resulting in a landmark recording of acoustic ambient music.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, atmospheric, ambient, droning, minimal, long-form

Tracklist

  1. Balloon Payment (0:45)
  2. Metalorgy (2:16)
  3. Seven-Up (2:41)
  4. The Ready Made Boomerang (10:31)
  5. Phantom (8:51)
  6. CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants) (20:03)
  7. Geocentric (10:55)

Credits

  • Deep Listening Band - primary artist
  • Pauline Oliveros Foundation - administrator [administration]
  • Dan Harpole - directed by [program director]
  • John Cage - text by [mesostic by]
  • Panaiotis - pipe [large pipes], noises [metal pieces], voice [voice accents], voice, soloist [solo voice], voice [(including sub-glottal singing)]
  • Pauline Oliveros - pipe [small pipes], noises [metal pieces], voice, accordion, accordion, voice
  • Thomasa Eckert - voice [voice long tones], voice, soloist [solo voice]
  • William O. Smith - clarinet

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