Glen Whitehead's "Pale Blue" Denver Premiere

Creative Music Works presents the Denver premiere of Pale Blue, an immersive sonic journey by interdisciplinary sound artist and trumpet virtuoso Glen Whitehead, featuring Matt Smiley on bass, Ron Coulter on drums, and special guest Colin McAllister on guitar. This groundbreaking performance fuses improvisation, environmental field recordings, and live trumpet in a meditation on our planet’s sonic landscapes and our relationship to the living world.

About Pale Blue
Pale Blue – named after the planet we inhabit – documents Whitehead’s grand quest to merge musical exploration, improvisation, and environmental immersion. Drawing from field recordings captured across Colorado, France, Greece, Hawaii, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey, and Wyoming, Whitehead weaves together geophonic (earth), anthrophonic (human), and biophonic (life) soundscapes with live trumpet and electronics.

Audiences might hear the headwaters of the Rio Grande River, drafty garages in France, coyotes, cicadas, or unexpected sonic encounters from around the globe – all transformed through Whitehead’s singular musical vision. These are parables of the anthrophony: stories that take their cue from our sounding world, bringing new awareness to our living systems and how we relate to them.