"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
"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
New 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
Dave Wilson is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, scholar, and a leading voice in 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.
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 unleash new ones.
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 unleash new ones.
Albums
Ephemeral
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
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
SLANT
Dave Wilson - tenor saxophone
Richard Valitutto - piano
Richard Valitutto - piano
In Passing
Dave Wilson - clarinet, bass clarinet
Gabe Lavin - oud
Gabe Lavin - oud
Publications
Gateways to Understanding Music
by Timothy Rice and Dave Wilson
Routledge, 2023 (Second Edition)
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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
Sonic Space-Making on the Margins of Power:
Electronic Music, Agency, and Alternative Belonging in the Republic of Macedonia (2011–2014)
Ethnomusicology (2022)
Electronic Music, Agency, and Alternative Belonging in the Republic of Macedonia (2011–2014)
Ethnomusicology (2022)
The Remembered Future:
Macedonian Pop Icon Toše Proeski and Musical Life after Death
Popular Music (2022)
Macedonian Pop Icon Toše Proeski and Musical Life after Death
Popular Music (2022)
A Conflux of Musical Logics:
Memory, History and the Improvisative Music of SLANT
Leonardo Music Journal (2020)
Memory, History and the Improvisative Music of SLANT
Leonardo Music Journal (2020)
Commoning in Sonic Ethnography
(or, the Sound of Ethnography to Come)
Commoning Ethnography (2018)
(or, the Sound of Ethnography to Come)
Commoning Ethnography (2018)