Denman Maroney

Denman Maroney ( born 1949 ) is an American Imrprovisatonsmusiker ( piano) and composer.

Life and work

Maroney studied after graduating from high school at Bennington College in Vermont ( 1969-71 ), Williams College (1971) and the California Institute of the Arts ( 1972-74 ). Among his teachers were Bill Dixon, Jimmy Garrison, James Tenney, John Bergamo, Ingram Marshall and Morton Subotnick. He experimented with techniques for recording the piano strings and the resonating body with various objects, called " Hyper Piano". In the early 1990s he worked in the formation Tambastics with Robert Dick, Mark Dresser and Gerry Hemingway. Maroney received numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer and the New York State Council for the Arts. Throughout his career he has played with musicians such as Mat Maneri, Leroy Jenkins, Mark Dresser, Ned Rothenberg, Dave Ballou, Earl Howard, Dave Douglas, Gerry Hemingway, Kevin Norton, Tim Berne, Dominic Lash and Min Xiao -Fen.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Tambastics ( Muaic & Arts, 1992)
  • Hyperpieno (1998) solo
  • Fire Song ( Erstwhile, 1999) with Earl Howard
  • Billabong ( Potlatch, 2000) with Hans Tammen
  • Ned Rothenberg & Denman Maroney - Tools of the Trade ( CIMP, 2001)
  • Mark Dresser / Denman Maroney - Duologues (Les Disques Victo, 2001)
  • Times Changes ( Cryptogramophone Records, 2005) with Mark Dresser, Michael Sarin
  • Mat Maneri / Denman Maroney - distich ( Nuscope Recordings, 2007)
  • Double Zero (Porter Records, 2011)
  • Denman Maroney / James Ilgenfritz / Niescier / Andrew Drury: Mind Games ( OutNow, 2012)
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