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He studied composition privately with Samuel Jones in 1964\u201365, earned a Bachelor of Music from Texas Christian University in 1967, and completed his formal music education at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester New York. He received an M.M. in theory (1970), and a PhD in composition in 1974. Lowrey is also well known as an associate of the American composer Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 \u2013 November 24, 2016).       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Lowrey spent many years as a professor of music, specializing in composition and theory. He was a composer in residence and Assistant Professor of Music at California State University at San Diego from 1971 to 1972, Instructor of Humanities at Stephens College (Columbia, Missouri) in 1972 to 1976, and Professor of Music at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey) from 1977 to 2016, where he taught composition and theory, along with analog and digital electronic composition. He also instructed students in environmentally-based composition.[1][2]Often specializing in lyric and poetical settings, his orchestral works include a setting of Dylan Thomas’ “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” for narrator and Orchestral and a setting of “Breaking Open,” a poem  by Muriel Rukeyser for Women’s Chorus and Orchestra.[3] He has also expanded his work into multimedia, including the composition “Orchestrophonia for Mechanical Musical Instruments and Orchestra,”[4][5][6] a commissioned collaboration with the Colonial Symphony and the Morris Museum’s Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata.[7]Lowrey has also worked in sculpture. He is the originator of “Singing Masks” and creates musical automata.[8] The masks, fabricated with ceramic, carved wood, and leather represent archetypal animistic characters based on mythical and quasi-mythical entities.[9] Many of the masks and automata use electro-acoustic sound sources, often developed by Lowrey. The masks are featured in site-specific rituals and have been exhibited and performed in such diverse locations as Plan B SITE Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Roulette[10] and Lincoln Center in New York City, The Deep Listening Space in Kingston, New York, The New Jersey State Museum in Trenton,[11] and at a  site of pictograph caves outside Billings, Montana.[12]As an outgrowth of his performances with Singing Masks, he collaborated with Cynthia Poten, previously the  Delaware Riverkeeper, on a project funded by a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in the spring of 1994 called ‘River Sounding.’ This included people participating in listening sessions along the 350 mile length of the Delaware River, and culminating in an exhibit with performances at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4He has created collaborative virtual performances online in the Second Life platform with the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, an international virtual collaborative ensemble, using animated versions of his Singing Masks. A recording of one of his compositions for the group was included in an article published by MIT Press Leonardo Music Journal.[13]His work with Pauline Oliveros included assisting in the certification training program of her Deep Listening practice, being a member of the Board of Directors of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, which then became the Deep Listening Institute, and collaborative performances with his masks. He has continued her methodology of Deep Listening for the program now located at the Center for Deep Listening of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and at Deep Listening Retreats in Sweden, California, and New York State.His most recent work has included performances in the CRAIVE Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) and as a video\/sound artist, he received a commission in 2016 to create an installation piece in the Smithsonian’s Freer|Sackler Galleries of Asian Art for an exhibit of 2500-year-old Chinese Bells.[14][15][non-primary source needed]Table of ContentsSelected works[edit]Discography[edit]References[edit]External links[edit]Selected works[edit]Dream Shadows Dream presented via Zoom for Ione’s 26th Annual Dream Festival, Feb. 21, 2021Look & Listen: Chinese Bells, Ancient to Digital, National Museum of Asian Art Webcast, January 28, 2021Forest Being, with Avatar Orchestra Metaverse, Presented live at the ECRA Festival in Rio de Janeiro. August 29, 2020Excerpts from Dream Shadows Dream, Realized at Carole Ione’s 25th Annual Dream Festival Marathon of Dreamers, 0202\u20132020, Fair John Art Space and Music Salon, Kingston, NYOvernight for Dreaming Avatars in Second Life,  2020The Thistle for Video and Sound, 2019Still Listening, for Automata and Electronics, 2019Wood Thrush Sings, for Singing Mask and Electronics, 2018Remembering Rose Mountain Dreaming Sounding, HTML App, 2018Sounding The Long Dream, for Video and Electronics, 2018River of Bells, for Video and Bells, 2017[16]Dreaming Pauline Oliveros in Kingston, for Video and Electronics, 2017SOUNDINGS: Singing Masks\/Automata\/Multimedia, 2016Dreaming Into 2016, for Virtual Singing Masks and Electronics, 2016Being on This Earth: 1. With Trees, for Video and Soundscape, 2015In Exhibit, Ariadne’s Phylogenetic Shoelace, Berlin, Germany, 2015Dream Shadows Dream for Singing Masks, Automata, and Electronics, 2013Once More, the Round on a poem by Theodore Roethke, for SATB Chorus, 2012Remember, Dream for Singing Masks and Video, 2011OneMany (OM) for Singing Masks, Electronics, 2010Mysterium Magnum: Singing Mask Dreamsong Meditations, 2009Onieroscape for Singing Masks and Electronics, 2009.Imp\/Rov(ing)isation for Singing Masks and Electronics, 2008Orchestrophonia for Mechanical Musical Instruments and Orchestra, 2007In Whirled (Trance)Formations  for Virtual Singing Masks, 2006Into the Deep (Dreaming) for Singing Masks, Surround-Soundscape and Electronics, 2006We Are Dreaming This: Transtemporal Dreaming for Singing Masks, Video, Surround-Soundscape and Electronics, 2005Private Prayers \/ Public Rituals: For Peace for Singing Masks, Soundscape and Electronics, 2005DreamWeaving for Singing Masks, Soundscape and Electronics, 2001Invocation: Morning Walk With Buddha BigEars for Singing Mask, Soundscape and Electronics, 2001RiverSoundMind for Singing Masks, Soundscape and Electronics, 2001In Parallel: Dreaming Into Alternate Universes for Singing Masks, Surround-SoundScape, Narration and Movement, 2000ReVoicings for Singing Masks, Voice and Electronics, 2000Spirit Talk: Conversations with the Singing Masks, Bird\/River Sounds and Electronics, 1999Spirit Dreams: Stories of the Singing Masks for Singing Masks, Narrator, River Sounds and Electronics, 1997Into the River of Longest Night for four flutes, four horns, xylophone, narrator and river sounds, text by Theodore Roethke,1995riverdream through us A Listening Ceremony in Seven Dreamings for Singing\/Listening Masks, Riversounds, & Listener\/Celebrants 1995from Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma for Voices and River Sounds, 1995Spirit Dream A Mask Performance\/Ceremony, with Pauline Oliveros, 1993To Hear a World … (After thoughts regarding the work of David Bohm),1992Out of the Wasteland, Music for the Dance,1991Interface, Music for the Dance, 1989whisperswithin, Music for the Dance, 1988The Water Dances, Music for the Dance, 1987Voices of Possibility, Music and Masks for Dance,1987Music to Selected Sonnets of William Shakespeare for soprano and orchestra,  1985The White Canoe for Masks, Speakers and Gamelan, 1984Inventing Voice for Masks and Gamelan, 1983Shamanic Voices for ceramic sculpture, music, choreography, video tape and narration. choreography, videotape and narration, 1980\u201381Earth Song for ceramic sculpture, music, narration and video tape, 1978\u201379Trumantra for five trumpets, tape and audience, 1978Waves for solo trumpet, narrator and prepared tape, texts by Virginia Woolf, 1977Breaking Open, for Women’s Chorus and Orchestra, on poems by Muriel Rukeyser, 1976A Child’s Christmas in Wales Setting for Narrator and Orchestra, text by Dylan Thomas, 1974Discography[edit]Spirit Talk: Conversations with the Singing Masks, Deep Listening \u2013 DL 12-2000 CD, released 2000[17]Revoicings, Deep Listening \u2013 DL 14-2000 CD, released 2000Spirit Dreams: Stories of the Singing Masks, Deep Listening \u2013 DL 11-2000 CD, released 2000River Sounding, Deep Listening \u2013 DL 13-2000 CD, released 2000References[edit]^ “Bio”. Drew University.^ “Vivaldi Is Featured in Drew’s Winter Concert”. Drew Today.^ “Breaking Open”. www.carlfischer.com.^ Tschappat, Mike (May 11, 2007). “Musical past and present join hands”. Morristown Daily Record.^ Finane, Ben (May 14, 2007). “Mechanical, but original Orchestra and museum pieces make beautiful music together”. Newark Star-Ledger.^ Abrams, Bernie (May 31, 2007). “Experience ‘Orchestrophonia’“. Recorder Community Newspapers.^ Malarcher, Patricia (6 December 1981). “Crafts”. The New York Times.^ “Connections: Deep Listening\/Singing Masks\/Ceremonial Dream Time” (PDF). Drew University.^ “Thoughts On Listening”. osborne-conant.org.^ “Norman Lowrey”. Roulette.^ Malarcher, Patricia (1981-12-06). “Crafts (Published 1981)”. The New York Times. ISSN\u00a00362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-13.^ “Review of Norman Lowrey at Ione’s 1997 Dream Festival”. Drew University.^ Oliveros, Pauline (2009). “LMJ19 CD Companion: Listening for Music through Community”. Leonardo Music Journal. 19: 98\u2013111. ISSN\u00a00961-1215. JSTOR\u00a040926358.^ Landers, Jackson. “A Rare Collection of Bronze Age Chinese Bells Tells a Story of Ancient Innovation”. Smithsonian.^ “Resound: Ancient Bells of China”. Freer|Sackler. Retrieved 2019-06-28.^ “Soundscape: River of Bells”. Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.^ “On The Towns”. The New York Times. 2 April 2000.External links[edit]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki21\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki21\/norman-lowrey-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Norman Lowrey – Wikipedia"}}]}]