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March 2008
updated 3-16-08
Ambient Visions
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AV's
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A
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Ann Licater Following the Call |
Following the Call AV talks to Ann Licater Ann Licater is a life-long silver flute player who discovered the inspirational and healing music of the Native American flute at a powwow. She uses her intuition and classical training to create beautiful, original melodies and breathtaking improvisations on these sacred instruments. Ann studied classical flute at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, MN and Native American flute with master flutist R. Carlos Nakai at the “Renaissance of the Native American Flute” in Helena, Montana. In addition to recording, performing and facilitating workshops, Ann is a public speaker on the subjects of spirituality, creative expression and personal discovery. Other Artist Interviews on Ambient Visions |
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Robert Rich
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State of the Ambient Union 2008 Can I rant in an unfiltered way? It might feel refreshing to vent some complicated thoughts. Please bear with me as I bare my doubts and affections for a few paragraphs. I need to express some things that might not make sense immediately - perhaps even to me until I manage to say it in print: To quote a poem by Daevid Allen of Gong "We are a community of hermits!" which is to say, that I don't want to speak for any concept of a movement or overarching direction in "style" that I have trouble believing exists. I mean this in the most optimistic of ways. I simply don't see music in terms of categories, and I don't picture those people who make slow atmospheric-sounding music as any different from a person up on stage singing their songs with an acoustic guitar, or a pianist practicing arpeggios to strengthen their fingers, a dance DJ triggering loops on Ableton Live, a cellist playing Bach, or a shaman in the Amazon rainforest trying to heal someone with yage while journeying to the spirit world. |
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Jim Cole
Innertones |
Innertones AV talks with Jim Cole Jim Cole began practicing harmonic singing
in 1991, inspired by the unique vocal sounds of Tibetan monks and David Hykes
and the Harmonic Choir (especially their album Hearing Solar Winds). He founded Spectral Voices and then,
intrigued by the reverberant cistern recording of Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening, they found home in an
empty water tower. In 1996 he received
an artist fellowship award from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts for work
in harmonic singing, which supported the
production and release of Spectral Voices' debut CD Coalescence.
Jim has collaborated with Alpha Wave Movement (their CD Bislama released
on Spectral Spiral Music), Mathias
Grassow (The Hollow and The Last Bright Light), Kevin Makarewicz
(Labyrinth Walk Live), and has contributed to works by Paranoise
(Private Power, Ishq and numerous live performances - also with the
acoustic-based version of Paranoise: "Mawwal"), vidnaObmana (The Surreal
Sanctuary, The Contemporary Nocturne, and live in concert), Amir Baghiri
(Rooms), Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf (The Serpent's Lair),
Mike Hovancsek and Pointless Orchestra (Temporal Angels, Scattered
Meditations, The Angel Scratch Radio Project and Under Moons)
and several other projects. Other AV's CD Focus Features available on Ambient Visions |
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