Constance Demby Biography
Her focus has included sculpture & painting, with one-woman shows in Greenwhich Village. Music, myth, art, and spirit merged in her SPACE MASS, a spectacular multi-media production combining painting, film, massive environmental sculptures, music, dance and ritual. She is composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, painter, sculptor, instrument designer, multi-media producer.

Born in Oakland CA, Constance Demby gave her first recital for classical pianoforte at the age of twelve. She studied sculpture and painting at the University of Michigan. After her marriage, she lived in New York for seven years. It was mainly as a sculptor that she built her sonic steel instruments, the space bass and later the whale sail. As a co-founder of The Central Maine Power, Sound and Light Company, an experimental visual and sound group, she created multimedia shows with sculptures and lights, and her sonic steel instruments.

In 1986 Novus Magnificat was released. A Grammy nominated album, inspired by classical and sacred music, Novus features samples from classical instruments made with the Kurzweil digital samplers, and sound effects by Michael Stearns. This album sold over 200,000 copies worldwide, making her one of the most successful new age artists of the time[1] and helped Stephen Hill to build the Hearts of Space label’s reputation.[citation needed]

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.” The Space Bass is featured on Michael Stearns’ soundtrack Chronos)’.

As a recording artist and pioneer in her field, Constance Demby is an 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, “She 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 into states of expanded consciousness.”

Her focus has included sculpture & painting, with one-woman shows in Greenwich Village. Music, myth, art, and spirit merged in her SPACE MASS, a spectacular multi-media production combining painting, film, massive environmental sculptures, music, dance and ritual. Demby is composer, performer, multi-instrumentalist, painter, sculptor, instrument designer, multi-media producer, and healer for our times

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)
* Light of this World (1987)
* Set Free (1989)
* Aeterna (1995)
* The Beloved (1998)
* The Heart Meditation (1998)
* Attunement: Live in Concert — Dec. 1999 (2000)
* Faces of the Christ (2000)
* Sanctum Sanctuorum (Hearts of Space Records release, 2003)
* Spirit Trance (2004)
* Constance Demby - Live in Tokyo CD [2002]
* Constance Demby - Live in Tokyo DVD [2002]
* Sonic Immersion - Vibrational Tonal Attunement [2006]

*source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Demby

Official Constance Demby Homepage:
http://www.constancedemby.com/