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{{Short description|American multi-instrumentalist player (1939–2021)}}
'''Constance Mary<ref name=ascap/> Demby''' is a<!--PLEASE DO NOT add again the unsourced "Grammy-nominated" claim without a serious independent reference, see source below and talk page--> ] ] player and composer. Identified with the ] movement (as both her personal belief and the ] style),<ref name=amgbio/> some of Demby's output is also classified as ] or ].<ref name=amgbio/> Demby is also a singer, instrument designer, painter, sculptor, and multi-media producer. She is best known for her 1986 album '']''.
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| caption = Demby in the 1980s
| birth_name = Constance Mary Eggers
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|3|20|1939|5|9}}
| death_place = ], U.S.
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| occupation = {{hlist|Musician|composer|painter|sculptor|multimedia producer}}
| instrument = Various, including keyboards, ], space bass, whale sail
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'''Constance Mary Demby''' (née '''Eggers'''; May 9, 1939 – March 20, 2021) was an American musician, composer, painter, sculptor, and multimedia producer. Her music included ], ], and ] styles.<ref name=amgbio>Wright, Carol. {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p2531|label=Constance Demby biography}}</ref><ref name="q, 2016">{{cite web|title=Why new age music is more punk than you think|url=http://www.cbc.ca/radio/q/schedule-for-thursday-february-11-2016-1.3443466/why-new-age-music-is-more-punk-than-you-think-1.3443522|website=q|publisher=]|access-date=8 October 2016|date=Feb 11, 2016}}</ref> She is best known for her 1986 album '']'' and her two ]s, the sonic steel space bass and the whale sail.<ref name="amgbio" />
==Biography==
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==Early life and education==
Constance Mary<ref name=ascap>] (2009). , database of the ]</ref> Demby was born in ]. <!--(need source to be restored) She gave her first recital for classical ] at the age of twelve,{{Fact|date=May 2009}}--> She learned to play the classical ] in her childhood and went on to become a multi-instrumentalist (including hammered dulcimer, vocals, synthesizers, and originally-designed custom acoustic instruments).
Demby was born in ], on May 9, 1939.<ref name=ascap>] (2009). , database of the ]</ref> After the family moved to ], Demby began classical piano lessons at age eight, and soon became confident enough to perform solo and in a group. She continued with her music studies, during which Demby also took to painting and sculpture and received an "Excellence in Art" award for her work from ] in ].


Demby studied sculpture and painting at the ] in ], where she received a Highby Award for excellence in art in 1960.<ref name=UDJ81>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105954939/|title=Constance Demby appearing in Ukiah Friday|date=July 14, 1981|newspaper=Ukiah Daily Journal|page=7|via=]|access-date=July 20, 2022}}</ref>
She studied ] and ] at the ].<ref name=amgbio/> It was both as musician and sculptor that her Sonic Steel Instruments, the ''space bass'' and the ''whale sail'' were created. 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. The ''Space Bass'' is featured on ]' soundtrack for '']''.


==Career==
In 1986, her album '']'' was released, self-defined as "]" from its liner notes to its subtitle "Through the Stargate", with a space-themed cover<!--sentence quoted in picture's FUR for inclusion--> ''(pictured at right)'' reminiscent of '']'' (whose ] featured a "Star Gate"). Inspired by Western ] and ], it was recorded with ] from real instruments played on the ]<!--per album credits (the Kurzweil came later)--> digital sampler, and features sound textures by ]. Though it wasn't nominated at the ]s,<!--common claim that thus needs explicit correction, see also talk page--><ref>'']'' was released in 1986 and eligible for the 1987 ] (alias "Grammy Awards for 1986"), where a "New Age" category appeared that year for the first time. Neither the album nor Demby appears on the ] list of , including the two compilations from Germany's ], "various artists - Windham Hill Records Sampler '86" and "various artists - A Winter's Solstice". (Same for , , , .) No other source checked in June 2009 (including ] and ]) could list the album among Grammy nominations. The "Grammy nominated" claim found on Demby's website since at least 2001 (and in some interviews) may have been a confusion between the album being "nominated" by its record label to the Grammy academy (as is the regular process) and the actual official list of five Grammy nominees (the one called "Grammy nominated").</ref> the album sold over 200,000 copies worldwide,<ref name=emusic/> making her one of the most successful ] artists of the time<ref name=emusic>Phoenix, Robert (2007). , January 23, 2007 at eMusic.com</ref> and helped ] to build his ]' reputation.<ref name=emusic/>
In 1960, Demby quit her studies and moved to ] in New York City. She continued to work as a musician and sculptor, combining these disciplines with her first ] ]s, built in 1966.<ref name="Klangraum, 2007">{{cite web|title=Bob Rutman's Steel Cello Ensemble|url=https://www.klangraum.at/en/program/kontraste/overview/07/kontraste-07/bob-rutman2019s-stelle-cello-ensemble|website=Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche|access-date=4 October 2016|date=2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005122314/https://www.klangraum.at/en/program/kontraste/overview/07/kontraste-07/bob-rutman2019s-stelle-cello-ensemble|archive-date=5 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Palka, 2015">{{cite book|last1=Palka|first1=Adrian|author-link1=Improvisations Towards an Origin: The Steel Cello and the Bow Chime|editor1-last=Dogantan-Dack|editor1-first=Mine|title=Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|location=London|pages=219–36}}</ref> She was torching a sheet of metal in her sculptural practice when she noticed the low tones and unusual sounds that the vibrating metal produced, which subsequently led to the development of her first handmade instruments.<ref name=amgbio/>


In 1967, Demby used these sculptures in a series of ]-style events at the Charles Street Gallery named A Fly Can't Bird But a Bird Can Fly, owned by ]. In one piece called "The Thing", Rutman wore a white cardboard box and banged on Demby's sheet metal creation with "a rock in a sock." Demby conceived a multimedia environmental experience called Space Mass, which featured a 24-foot altar, temples, and sculptures that acted as moving screens to project abstract films. Demby welded a curved metal sheet to several steel rods which she played as a ]. Rutman later remarked, "We thought it would sound good as a ], but it didn't."<ref name="Palka, 2015" /> Throughout the decade Demby exhibited her work in solo and group settings in New York City, Boston, and Maine. In 1968, she held her first major solo show in New York City, combining her paintings, sculptures, and light and sound displays, by which time she had explored ] for the first time.<ref name=UDJ81/>
Demby was the co-founder of The Central Maine Power Sound and Light Company,<ref name=amgbio/> an experimental multi-media group that toured the east coast from 1971 to 1976<ref name=amgbio/> with programs such as ''Space Mass'', a multimedia production launched in NYC combining painting, film, massive environmental sculptures, music, dance, and ritual. In 1978, Demby also founded her own record company, Sound Currents<ref>http://www.mcs.csueastbay.edu/~tebo/history/Ambient/Space/C.Demby.html</ref> (also known as Gandarva,<ref>http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=664184</ref> her recording studio) that released or re-issued half of her albums.<ref name=amgbio/>


In 1971, after moving to ] with Rutman, the duo formed the Central Maine Power Music Company (CMPMC), a multimedia sound and light group influenced by their previous Space Mass exhibit. They used uncommon eastern instruments combined with electronic music with video and laser light projections. They toured the eastern US extensively,<ref name=UDJ81/> with the group ranging from 6 to 20 members at any given performance. Among the guest musicians involved was ] player ] and video artist ].<ref name="Continuo, 2012">{{cite web|last1=Continuo|title=Central Maine Power Music Company|url=http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/37704460417/central-maine-power-music-company-cmpmc-was|access-date=4 October 2016|date=Dec 11, 2012}}</ref> The band toured the East Coast, playing at ]s in ], as well as ], the ], and at the ] in New York City. Demby's co-founder told a reporter in 1974:
In 2000, Demby moved from Southern California to Spain<ref name=amgbio>Wright, Carol. {{Allmusicguide |id=11:difexqq5ldae~T1 |label=Constance Demby biography }}</ref> in Sitges (outside ]), and returned to the U.S. in July 2003.

{{cquote|The best way to describe our music is to call it 'not music.' You see, it often happens that when people hear us play, they say, either in anger or in delight, 'That's not music!' It's somewhat akin to the paintings of ]. When the art buffs first saw his work, with the paint drippings and all, they said, 'That's not painting.'<ref name="Van Der Heide, 1974">{{cite news|last1=Van Der Heide|first1=Anna|title=Central Maine musicians play 'not music' music|url=http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/37704460417/central-maine-power-music-company-cmpmc-was|access-date=4 October 2016|agency=Central Maine Morning Sentinel|date=1974|location=Athens}}</ref>}}

In 1976, the CMPMC disbanded and its founders moved to ]. While Rutman went on to pursue directions in ] and ] with the sheet metal instruments that they had created, Demby headed down a quieter path. She studied ] with ] and, in 1977, co-formed the Gandharva Performing Arts Company, a duo featuring the flute, tabla and ] with Robert Bennett.<ref name=UDJ81/>

By the late 1970s, Demby had become a multi-instrumentalist who was proficient in ], vocals, ], ], ], and various keyboards and ]s. She made her studio recording debut on ]'s debut album, ''Troubadour'' (1976). Demby's first solo album, ''Skies Above Skies'' (1978), comprised devotional prayers set to music featuring hammer dulcimer, ch'eng, tambura, synthesizer, cello, piano, organ, and voice reciting lines from the ], ] scripture, and the '']''.

In 1979, following a ] to ], Demby settled in ], just north of ]. She founded the record label ] to release her second album, ''Sunborne'' (1980), inspired by the '']'', a 20th century work by occultist ].<ref name=amgbio/> Her hammer dulcimer-oriented album '']'' (1982) followed on the ] label.<ref name="Murphy, 2015">{{cite web|last1=Murphy|first1=Tom|title=Recap: Ambient Music Legend Robert Rich in a Parker Living Room|url=http://www.westword.com/music/recap-ambient-music-legend-robert-rich-in-a-parker-living-room-6701780|website=Westworld.com|publisher=Denver Westword, LLC|access-date=8 October 2016|date=May 11, 2015}}</ref> Demby performed at the Alaron Center in ], spawning her ''Live at Alaron'' (1984) album which displays themes the in her definitive studio album, '']'' (1986).

In 2000, Demby left California for Spain, eventually settling in ] near ], where she recorded ''Sanctum Sanctuorum'' (2001), a reworked version of ''Faces of the Christ'' (2000) with added keyboard parts and choral and ].<ref name=CDSPAIN>{{cite web|url=http://www.constancedemby.com/spain_f.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041022022448/http://www.constancedemby.com/spain_f.html|archive-date=October 22, 2004|first=Carol|last=Wright|date= |publisher=ConstanceDemby.com|title="ProFile" – Constance Demby in Spain: A New Authentico|url-status=usurped|access-date=August 20, 2022}}</ref>

Demby returned to the US in 2004, touring the West Coast presenting concerts and healing workshops. Her Sound Currents label subsequently released ''Sonic Immersion'' (2004), a vibrational ] attunement through use of the Space Bass.

In addition to her studio albums, Demby is best known for creating two ]s: the Whale Sail and the Sonic Steel Space Bass. These 10-foot-long sheet metal ] are played with a bass bow to create low resonating tones.<ref name=amgbio/> ]' ] licensed the sounds of the Space Bass for use in their film scores, and ] filmed the Space Bass in Gaudi's ] in Barcelona for one of their specials. The Space Bass is also featured on the soundtrack for the IMAX film '']'' (1985), directed by ] and featuring music by ].
The ] commissioned Demby to create a score for the film ''I AM'', and Demby's album ''Spirit Trance'' (2004) features four selections from the film. The track "Legend" on the same album was composed for Alan Hauge's film ''James Dean – An American Legend''. Due to complications with the James Dean Foundation, however, the project was shelved.

==Personal life==
In 1961, Eggers married David Demby and they had one son, Joshua. The marriage ended in divorce in 1974.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105890673/|title=Skowhegan court grants 21 divorces|newspaper=The Bangor Daily News|date=July 4, 1974|page=18|via=]|access-date=July 19, 2022}}</ref>

Demby's nephew is writer, editor, and publisher Dave Eggers.

==Death==
Demby died from complications of a heart attack in ], on March 20, 2021, at age 81.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/arts/music/constance-demby-dead.html|title=Constance Demby, New Age Composer, Is Dead at 81|first=Neil|last=Genzlinger|date=April 2, 2021|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 23, 2022}}</ref>


==Discography== ==Discography==
;Studio albums '''Studio albums'''
{{Div col}}
* 1978: ''Skies Above Skies'' (CS, Sound Currents/Gandarva)
* ''Skies Above Skies'' (1978)
* 1980: ''Sunborne'' (CS, Sound Currents/Gandarva)
* ''Sunborne'' (1980)
* 1982: '']'' (CS, Sound Currents/Gandarva; 1988 CD, ])
* '']'' (1982)
* 1986: '']'' (])
* '']'' (1986)
* 1989: '']'' (])
* ''Set Free'' (1989)
* 1995: ''Aeterna'' (])
* ''Æterna'' (1995)
* 1998: ''The Beloved'' (Living Essence Foundation)
* ''Faces of the Christ'' (2000)
* 1998: ''The Heart Meditation'' (Living Essence Foundation)
* ''Sanctum Sanctuorum'' (2001)
* 2000: ''Faces of the Christ'' (Sound Currents)
* ''Spirit Trance'' (2004)
* 2001: ''Sanctum Sanctuorum'' (])
* ''Sonic Immersion: A Vibratory Tonal Attunement'' (2004)
* 2004: ''Spirit Trance'' (])
* ''Ambrosial Waves – Healing Waters'' (2011)
* 2004: ''Sonic Immersion'' (Sound Currents)
* ''Ambrosial Waves – Tidal Pools'' (2013)
* ''Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate – 30th Anniversary Edition'' (2017)
{{Div col end}}


;Live albums '''Live albums'''
* 1984: ''Constance Demby at Alaron'' (live, 1983)(CS, Sound Currents/Gandarva) * ''Constance Demby at Alaron – Live Concert Recording'' (1984)
* 2000: ''Attunement: Live in Concert'' (live, 1999)(First Light Music; Sound Currents) * ''Attunement: Live in Concert'' (2000)
* 2008: ''Live in Tokyo'' (live, 2002, CD-DVD)(Sound Currents) * ''Live in Tokyo'' (2003)


'''Videos'''
;Compilations
* ''Live in Tokyo''
* 1987: ''Light of This World'' (compilation, 1978–1986 best-of, plus 2 original tracks)(CS/CD, Sound Currents)
* ''Meet Constance Demby''
* 1991: '']'' (various-artists compilation, 1 original Demby track)(])

'''Compilations'''
* ''Light of This World'' (1987)

'''Appearances'''
* ] – ''Troubadour'' (1976)
* ] – ''Chronos (Original Soundtrack Recording)'' (1984)
* Stephen Coughlin – ''Breeze at Dawn'' (1989)
* Various Artists – '']'' (1991)
* Various Artists – ''Illumination''
* Arjuna Ardagh and Constance Demby – ''Guided Meditations: The Heart Meditation'' (1998)
* Arjuna Ardagh and Constance Demby – ''Guided Meditations: The Beloved'' (1998)
* Eterna (Linda Bandino) and Constance Demby – ''The Journey Home''
* Eterna (Linda Bandino) and Constance Demby – ''The Master Healing Ray''


== References == == References ==
{{Reflist}} {{reflist|2}}


==Further reading== ==Further reading==
{{expand further|date=May 2009}}
* Winters, Kelly (2005). , ''Contemporary Musicians'', ] Inc, 2005. Retrieved May 31, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com * Winters, Kelly (2005). , ''Contemporary Musicians'', ] Inc, 2005. Retrieved May 31, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com
* Wright, Carol (2004). . ] from ConstanceDemby.com


==External links== ==External links==
* {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p2531|label=Constance Demby}}
* – official website
* {{discogs artist}}
* {{Allmusicguide |id=11:difexqq5ldae |label=Constance Demby }}

* {{discogs artist |artist=Constance+Demby |name=Constance Demby }}
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American multi-instrumentalist player (1939–2021)
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Constance Demby
Demby in the 1980sDemby in the 1980s
Background information
Birth nameConstance Mary Eggers
Born(1939-05-09)May 9, 1939
Oakland, California, U.S.
DiedMarch 20, 2021(2021-03-20) (aged 81)
Pasadena, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Musician
  • composer
  • painter
  • sculptor
  • multimedia producer
Instrument(s)Various, including keyboards, hammered dulcimer, space bass, whale sail
Years active1960s–2021
Formerly of
Musical artist

Constance Mary Demby (née Eggers; May 9, 1939 – March 20, 2021) was an American musician, composer, painter, sculptor, and multimedia producer. Her music included new age, ambient, and space music styles. She is best known for her 1986 album Novus Magnificat and her two experimental musical instruments, the sonic steel space bass and the whale sail.

Early life and education

Demby was born in Oakland, California, on May 9, 1939. After the family moved to Connecticut, Demby began classical piano lessons at age eight, and soon became confident enough to perform solo and in a group. She continued with her music studies, during which Demby also took to painting and sculpture and received an "Excellence in Art" award for her work from Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Demby studied sculpture and painting at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she received a Highby Award for excellence in art in 1960.

Career

In 1960, Demby quit her studies and moved to Greenwich Village in New York City. She continued to work as a musician and sculptor, combining these disciplines with her first sheet metal sound sculptures, built in 1966. She was torching a sheet of metal in her sculptural practice when she noticed the low tones and unusual sounds that the vibrating metal produced, which subsequently led to the development of her first handmade instruments.

In 1967, Demby used these sculptures in a series of happening-style events at the Charles Street Gallery named A Fly Can't Bird But a Bird Can Fly, owned by Robert Rutman. In one piece called "The Thing", Rutman wore a white cardboard box and banged on Demby's sheet metal creation with "a rock in a sock." Demby conceived a multimedia environmental experience called Space Mass, which featured a 24-foot altar, temples, and sculptures that acted as moving screens to project abstract films. Demby welded a curved metal sheet to several steel rods which she played as a percussion instrument. Rutman later remarked, "We thought it would sound good as a xylophone, but it didn't." Throughout the decade Demby exhibited her work in solo and group settings in New York City, Boston, and Maine. In 1968, she held her first major solo show in New York City, combining her paintings, sculptures, and light and sound displays, by which time she had explored electronic music for the first time.

In 1971, after moving to Maine with Rutman, the duo formed the Central Maine Power Music Company (CMPMC), a multimedia sound and light group influenced by their previous Space Mass exhibit. They used uncommon eastern instruments combined with electronic music with video and laser light projections. They toured the eastern US extensively, with the group ranging from 6 to 20 members at any given performance. Among the guest musicians involved was hammer dulcimer player Dorothy Carter and video artist Bill Etra. The band toured the East Coast, playing at planetariums in Massachusetts, as well as Lincoln Center, the World Trade Center, and at the United Nations Sculpture Garden in New York City. Demby's co-founder told a reporter in 1974:

The best way to describe our music is to call it 'not music.' You see, it often happens that when people hear us play, they say, either in anger or in delight, 'That's not music!' It's somewhat akin to the paintings of Jackson Pollock. When the art buffs first saw his work, with the paint drippings and all, they said, 'That's not painting.'

In 1976, the CMPMC disbanded and its founders moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. While Rutman went on to pursue directions in contemporary classical and industrial music with the sheet metal instruments that they had created, Demby headed down a quieter path. She studied yoga with Ajaib Singh and, in 1977, co-formed the Gandharva Performing Arts Company, a duo featuring the flute, tabla and dulcimer with Robert Bennett.

By the late 1970s, Demby had become a multi-instrumentalist who was proficient in musical improvisation, vocals, hammered dulcimer, koto, tamboura, and various keyboards and synthesizers. She made her studio recording debut on Dorothy Carter's debut album, Troubadour (1976). Demby's first solo album, Skies Above Skies (1978), comprised devotional prayers set to music featuring hammer dulcimer, ch'eng, tambura, synthesizer, cello, piano, organ, and voice reciting lines from the Bible, Hindi scripture, and the Popol Vuh.

In 1979, following a pilgrimage to India, Demby settled in Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco. She founded the record label Sound Currents to release her second album, Sunborne (1980), inspired by the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, a 20th century work by occultist Maurice Doreal. Her hammer dulcimer-oriented album Sacred Space Music (1982) followed on the Hearts of Space Records label. Demby performed at the Alaron Center in Sausalito, spawning her Live at Alaron (1984) album which displays themes the in her definitive studio album, Novus Magnificat (1986).

In 2000, Demby left California for Spain, eventually settling in Sitges near Barcelona, where she recorded Sanctum Sanctuorum (2001), a reworked version of Faces of the Christ (2000) with added keyboard parts and choral and Gregorian chant.

Demby returned to the US in 2004, touring the West Coast presenting concerts and healing workshops. Her Sound Currents label subsequently released Sonic Immersion (2004), a vibrational sound healing attunement through use of the Space Bass.

In addition to her studio albums, Demby is best known for creating two experimental musical instruments: the Whale Sail and the Sonic Steel Space Bass. These 10-foot-long sheet metal idiophones are played with a bass bow to create low resonating tones. George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch licensed the sounds of the Space Bass for use in their film scores, and The Discovery Channel filmed the Space Bass in Gaudi's Park Güell in Barcelona for one of their specials. The Space Bass is also featured on the soundtrack for the IMAX film Chronos (1985), directed by Ron Fricke and featuring music by Michael Stearns.

The International Space Science Institute commissioned Demby to create a score for the film I AM, and Demby's album Spirit Trance (2004) features four selections from the film. The track "Legend" on the same album was composed for Alan Hauge's film James Dean – An American Legend. Due to complications with the James Dean Foundation, however, the project was shelved.

Personal life

In 1961, Eggers married David Demby and they had one son, Joshua. The marriage ended in divorce in 1974.

Demby's nephew is writer, editor, and publisher Dave Eggers.

Death

Demby died from complications of a heart attack in Pasadena, California, on March 20, 2021, at age 81.

Discography

Studio albums

  • Skies Above Skies (1978)
  • Sunborne (1980)
  • Sacred Space Music (1982)
  • Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate (1986)
  • Set Free (1989)
  • Æterna (1995)
  • Faces of the Christ (2000)
  • Sanctum Sanctuorum (2001)
  • Spirit Trance (2004)
  • Sonic Immersion: A Vibratory Tonal Attunement (2004)
  • Ambrosial Waves – Healing Waters (2011)
  • Ambrosial Waves – Tidal Pools (2013)
  • Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate – 30th Anniversary Edition (2017)

Live albums

  • Constance Demby at Alaron – Live Concert Recording (1984)
  • Attunement: Live in Concert (2000)
  • Live in Tokyo (2003)

Videos

  • Live in Tokyo
  • Meet Constance Demby

Compilations

  • Light of This World (1987)

Appearances

  • Dorothy Carter – Troubadour (1976)
  • Michael Stearns – Chronos (Original Soundtrack Recording) (1984)
  • Stephen Coughlin – Breeze at Dawn (1989)
  • Various Artists – Polar Shift (1991)
  • Various Artists – Illumination
  • Arjuna Ardagh and Constance Demby – Guided Meditations: The Heart Meditation (1998)
  • Arjuna Ardagh and Constance Demby – Guided Meditations: The Beloved (1998)
  • Eterna (Linda Bandino) and Constance Demby – The Journey Home
  • Eterna (Linda Bandino) and Constance Demby – The Master Healing Ray

References

  1. ^ Wright, Carol. Constance Demby biography at AllMusic
  2. "Why new age music is more punk than you think". q. CBC Radio. Feb 11, 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  3. ASCAP (2009). "Works written by: Demby Constance Mary, CAE/IPI No. 127.53.77.66", database of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
  4. ^ "Constance Demby appearing in Ukiah Friday". Ukiah Daily Journal. July 14, 1981. p. 7. Retrieved July 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. "Bob Rutman's Steel Cello Ensemble". Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche. 2007. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  6. ^ Palka, Adrian (2015). Dogantan-Dack, Mine (ed.). Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice. London: Routledge. pp. 219–36.
  7. Continuo (Dec 11, 2012). "Central Maine Power Music Company". Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  8. Van Der Heide, Anna (1974). "Central Maine musicians play 'not music' music". Athens. Central Maine Morning Sentinel. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  9. Murphy, Tom (May 11, 2015). "Recap: Ambient Music Legend Robert Rich in a Parker Living Room". Westworld.com. Denver Westword, LLC. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  10. Wright, Carol. ""ProFile" – Constance Demby in Spain: A New Authentico". ConstanceDemby.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2004. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  11. "Skowhegan court grants 21 divorces". The Bangor Daily News. July 4, 1974. p. 18. Retrieved July 19, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. Genzlinger, Neil (April 2, 2021). "Constance Demby, New Age Composer, Is Dead at 81". The New York Times. Retrieved March 23, 2022.

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