Creative Music Works presents the Denver premiere of Pale Blue, an immersive sonic journey by interdisciplinary sound artist and trumpet virtuoso Glen Whitehead, featuring Matt Smiley on bass, Ron Coulter on drums and special guest Colin McAllister on guitar. This groundbreaking performance fuses improvisation, environmental field recordings, and live trumpet in a meditation on our planet's sonic landscapes and our relationship to the living world.

About Pale Blue

Pale Blue – named after the planet we inhabit – documents Whitehead's grand quest to merge musical exploration, improvisation, and environmental immersion. Drawing from field recordings captured across Colorado, France, Greece, Hawaii, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey, and Wyoming, Whitehead weaves together geophonic (earth), anthrophonic (human), and biophonic (life) soundscapes with live trumpet and electronics.

Audiences might hear the headwaters of the Rio Grande River, drafty garages in France, coyotes, cicadas, or unexpected sonic encounters from around the globe – all transformed through Whitehead's singular musical vision. These are parables of the anthrophony: stories that take their cue from our sounding world, bringing new awareness to our living systems and how we relate to them.

What the critics are saying:

"Glen Whitehead's Pale Blue is an auditory Masterpiece that takes you on a sonic journey around the world." – Amplified

"The genre of environmental music can too often sound generic, but Whitehead has a gift as a sound artist….in a word, he is a musical idealist who refuses to hear anything in primitive everyday noise except a perpetual, eternal song." – Fanfare

About Glen Whitehead

Glen Whitehead, D.M.A., is an interdisciplinary sound artist, composer, and trumpet artist who explores the world of ecoacoustics with a focus on improvisational phenomena and interactive communication between living cultures, technologies, and the natural world.

He released Pale Blue on Neuma Records in Spring 2023 to rave reviews and international airplay. His previous recording, the Living Daylights (2018) on pfMENTUM, remained in the top 10 of radio playlists across the U.S. for over a year.

Whitehead has performed at prestigious venues and festivals worldwide, including the SORI Music Festival in Korea, REDCAT, the Hear Now Festival, Melbourne Recital Hall, Bimhuis and Zaal 100 in Amsterdam, the Innova Festival at "the Stone" in NYC, and the EcoSono Institute in Alaska. He has collaborated with Grammy Award winner Cuong Vu, George E. Lewis, Matthew Burtner, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros, Cecil Taylor, and many other luminaries.

Whitehead is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He received his B.Mus. from the New England Conservatory of Music and his M.A. and D.M.A. from the University of California, San Diego.

Recording Information

Pale Blue is available now on Neuma Records:

Bandcamp: https://glenwhitehead.bandcamp.com/album/pale-blue

Neuma Records: https://neumarecords.org/ols/products/glen-whitehead-pale-blue

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