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'Ephemeral'
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Finalist for 
Aotearoa Music Awards Te Manu Taki Tautito o te Tau | Best Jazz Artist 2024

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"quite spiritually intense" – The Guardian
"rich and sonorous tone . . . deliciously woozy chamber music" – ukvibe
​"as daring as it is dreamy" – Qobuz
​"provocative, enjoyably challenging and thoroughly engrossing" – New Zealand Listener​
"spiritedly grooving" – Relix


"The record finds him crafting intricate textures and multi-layered grooves, showcasing his shapeshifting connection to his instrument of choice with an idiosyncratic fusion of improvisatory melodies and dynamic rhythmic impulses" – Jazziz​

Article in Environmental Humanities ​(March 2024) reflecting on the music of 'Ephemeral':

​Sounding Together:
A Reflection on Extending Acoustic Assemblages and Transforming Sonic Environments in Improvisative Music

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Dave Wilson is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, interdisciplinary scholar, and a contributor to the music community of Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. His music bridges avant-garde and experimental music with various groove-oriented styles from the worlds of jazz, R&B, electronic music, and more.
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​With each of his projects as an artist-scholar, educator, and music community leader, he brings together new configurations of collaborators to extend ongoing creative conversations and generate new ones.
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Albums 

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Ephemeral 

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Dave Wilson - tenor saxophone & bass clarinet
Ben Hunt - trumpet
Callum Jephson Allardice - guitar
Chris Beernink - bass
Hikurangi Schaverien-Kaa - drums
Amy Brookman - violin
Monique Lapins - violin
Nicholas Hancox - viola
Bennie Sneyd-Utting - cello


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SLANT 

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Dave Wilson - tenor saxophone
Richard Valitutto - piano
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In Passing 

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Dave Wilson - clarinet, bass clarinet
Gabe Lavin - oud

Publications 

Gateways to Understanding Music
by Timothy Rice and Dave Wilson
Routledge, 2023 (Second Edition)

Gateways to Understanding Music is a music appreciation textbook exploring music in all the categories that constitute contemporary musical experience: European classical music, popular music, jazz, and world music. Covering the oldest forms of human music making to the newest, the book's chronological narrative considers music from a global rather than a Eurocentric perspective. Each of sixty modular "gateways" covers a particular genre, style, or period of music. Every gateway opens with a guided listening example that unlocks a world of music through careful study of its structural elements. Based on their listening experience, readers are asked to consider how the piece came to be composed or performed, how the piece or performance responded to the social and cultural issues at the time and place of its creation, and what that music means today. Students and other readers learn to listen to, explain, understand, and ultimately value all the music they may encounter in their world.
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Academic Articles

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Sonic Space-Making on the Margins of Power:
​Electronic Music, Agency, and Alternative Belonging in the Republic of Macedonia (2011–2014)

Ethnomusicology ​(2022)
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​​The Remembered Future: 
Macedonian Pop Icon Toše Proeski and Musical Life after Death

Popular Music ​(2022)
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​​A Conflux of Musical Logics:
​Memory, History and the Improvisative Music of SLANT

Leonardo Music Journal ​(2020)
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Commoning in Sonic Ethnography
​(or, the Sound of Ethnography to Come)

Commoning Ethnography (2018)
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