Constance Demby
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“One of the world's greatest living musicians,Constance Demby may well be the most important woman composer of classical and innovative music of our time.” - Jean Houston, Phd
An internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated, award winning performing and recording artist, Constance Demby has been hailed as the 21st century’s Mozart / Bach / Beethoven, a tall order for anyone to be associated with, but in Constance’s case one founded on the most extraordinary musical and creative talent that is testimony to her prolific output and the profound healing both listeners and participants experience, alongside critical acclaim that has followed her every step of progress in a career spanning decades.
"Constance Demby, a shaman's shaman, the electronica high priestess of priestesses,belongs in the ranks of the great space music artistes." -Tracks Across the Universe: A Chronology of Ambient and Electronic Music
As a recording artist and pioneer in her field, Constance Demby is an internationally acclaimed innovator of sound creations; sounds you'd swear you never heard before. Yet, somewhere in some dim memory, there is a faint memory echo - rich and compelling - calling up archetypal experiences which access the deeper, more profound levels of the mind-body-spirit. One critic described the experience as, " Constance weaves a symphonic journey that is essentially a transmission from above, yet connects from the inside out - almost like you lose your feet but gain your soul. As the tones are transmitted, a dimensional shift occurs, allowing listeners to open, release and merge into states of expanded consciousness."
“Constance Demby isn’t just a musician or a composer, she is something different altogether:a portal, a walking catalyst, an event.” -emusic magazine
In live concert, Constance presents a range of sonic environments, accompanied by her penetrating voice: the cosmic-electronic symphonic orchestra performed on digital sampling synthesizers; the wooden hammer dulcimer with over 100 strings; and the Sonic Steel Space Bass, a ten foot sheet of steel that produces deep, primoridal, resonant sounds. An original design, her Sonic Steel Instruments have been recorded by Lucas Skywalker Studios for use in their filmscores, and also filmed by Discovery Channel at Gaudi's Parc Guell for inclusion in a special entitled "The Power of Music."
Dedicated to exploring the healing power of sound and it's ability to alter consciousness, Constance has received countless letters from those who, because of her music, experienced a major healing, a life shift, or even decided not to commit suicide. Healers and therapists use the albums in sessions to deepen and facilitate their work.
Her Grammy nominated album Novus Magnificat Inspired by classical and sacred music, features samples from classical instruments made with the Kurzweil digital samplers, and sound effects by Michael Stearns.
"One of the country's finest Composer / Performers of meditational space music" - High Performance Review
Also a painter and sculptor, Constance Demby designed sonic steel musical instruments such as the Space Bass (featured on Michael Stearns' soundtrack Chronos)'.
[edit] Discography
- Skies Above Skies (1978)
- Sunborne (1980)
- Sacred Space Music (1982)
- Constance Demby at Alaron: Live Concert Recording (1984)
- Novus Magnificat: Thru the Stargate (1986)
- Set Free (1989)
- Aeterna (1995)
- The Beloved (1998)
- The Heart Meditation (1998)
- Attunement: Live in Concert -- Dec. 1999 (2000)
- Faces of the Christ (2000)
- "Light of this World"
- Sanctum Sanctuorum (Hearts of Space Records release, 2003)
- Spirit Trance (2004)
- "Constance Demby - Live in Tokyo" CD
- "Constance Demby - Live in Tokyo" DVD
