Jack Gabel's work can be heard on the North Pacific Music recordings:
Turtle Island Dreams ~ Turtle Island Dances
Shakuhachi Banquet
Passion
Dog Star
Jack Gabel - Spring Quartet and selected works for strings performed by fEARnoMUSIC
To hear audio samples of other works from Gabel's catalog, click the appropriate streaming media type:
Click an image to download a free player:
Akademische Fantasie Variationen   (excerpt)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Auto-Mobile   (excerpt) Baker, Moyer, Walters (1981)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Etude de la Saison   (excerpt) Falconer from "Water Colors" SBR0018 (2000)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Equinox from Passiones   (excerpt) for Nomadas del sol, dance company (2001)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Conflagration & Queen of Peace   (excerpt) for Katja Biesanz Dance Theater (1998)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Hopi Flute Song   (excerpt)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
In The Land of Wu   (excerpt) ORS & VDR (1991)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Lion Hunt Dream   (excerpt) JWSQ (1993)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Maliseet Love Song & Dance   (excerpt) BDSWO (1990)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Sounding the Furies  (excerpt) Bergeron (1997)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Whale Hunt Dream   (excerpt) Selisian Philharmonic Karen Dreyfus (solo viola) Jerzy Svoboda (conducting) MMC2079 (2000)	Media Player	Real Audio	Real Audio Broad Band
Diameter IX Agnieszka Laska Dancers (2003)		Real Video	Real Video Broad Band
Voices and Echos Agnieszka Laska Dancers (2003) Trio Spektrum (excerpt)			Real Video Broad Band
Adagio Spring quartet (excerpt) Agnieszka Laska Dancers (2004)		Real Audio dial-up	Real Audio broad-band	QuickTime Video Broad Band
Hera's Wrath Hellenic Triptych (excerpt) Agnieszka Laska Dancers (2004)				QuickTime Video Broad Band
Echo's Farewell Hellenic Triptych (excerpt) Agnieszka Laska Dancers (2004)				QuickTime Video Broad Band

Auto-Tomy (1987) Jack Gabel - concept & audio
Kurt Spak - video
Bill Will - kinetics & decour
Pioneer Court House Square - PDX
& Bumbershoot - Seattle

QuickTime
Broad Band

Philistine Nation
Fighting Words Music (1997)
and now for something else again

mp3
Broad Band

Jack Gabel, (b. 1949 -) presently lives in Portland, Oregon. He has traveled extensively, throughout Europe, Africa and Asia and worked many summers as a commercial fisherman in Alaska. Jack Gabel has written numerous concert hall works for many different combinations of instruments and voices, with and without electroacoustic accompaniments and/or enhancements. He also creates mixed-media works alone and with collaborators, using musique concrete and poetry, frequently his own, some of which has been published apart from its use in contemporary performance pieces and more traditional settings for singers. Though classically trained with composers Derek Healey, Tomas Svoboda and poet Ralph Salisbury, Gabel recounts as his most memorable musical experience, the impromptu jam session he had with an Afghan tribesman in a Herat tea house in 1972 -- the composer on mouth organ and the local talent holding forth on his handmade, rough-hewn, 3-string lute. The two miraculously found a common modality straight away and carried on for several hours. "No concert-hall premiere or recording session can to date compare," adds the composer, "nor likely ever will." Today, Gabel's work is infused with widely varied ethnic and ancient colors and motives, most notably those of the ancient, native cultures of North America. His 1997 article on electronic music for the All Music Guide can be found at www.allmusic.com In addition to his NPM releases, Jack Gabel's discography includes Whale Hunt Dream on the MMC (2000) release Viola Concertos, Vol. II by Karen Dreyfus with the Silesian Philharmonic, Jerzy Svoboda conducting Etude de la Saison for solo koto, by Elizabeth Falconer on the Sparkling Beatnik (2000) release, Water Colors Auto-Mobile from original poetry for tenor sax, processed string bass and narrator/percussionist on a percussion battery infused with junked car parts, on the The Third Angle New Music Ensemble's Gagliano Records (1999) release, The Junkyard Concert

Jack Gabel's score to THE FALL '01 has won the award for Best Film Score in the 2008 Renderyard International Film Festival

This is the most recent in a growing list of awards for the movie made from the 2006 Qerétaro, México, world premiere.

INSIGHT AWARD from National Association of Film and Digital Media Artists THE FALL '01 - 2006 - choreodrama by Agnieszka Laska and Luis Arreguin video director Takafumi Uehara Amazing Visions 28th Annual Telly Awards

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THE FALL '01
US Live Stage Premiere

Imago Theatre [get map]
17 SE 8th Ave. Portland, OR

Nov. 11 - 8:00 pm

info.phone = 503.715.1866
email.address = ALDancers@comcast.net
WWW.URL = A-Laska.com
tickets: www.artixpdx.com

NPM founder Jack Gabel, Resident Composer and Technical Director with Agnieszka Laska Dancers, conceived and authored THE FALL '01 in 2005 in response forthcoming news of the US-run global "torture gulag" as part of its Global War Of Terror. Agnieszka Laska Dancers presented the concert music world premiere (May 2006). Takafumi Uehara created a video montage to accompany the sound track, edited from the live concert performance. Agnieszka Lask and Luis Arreguin collaborated on the choreography and gave the live stage world premiere in Queretaro, Mexico, September 11, 2006. The European premiere was given August 31 in Krakow, Poland at the Score for Body and Movement Festival, at the Nowahuta Cultural Center. And now, fianally, the US, live stage premiere was given 11/11/07

photo (c) Armando Arias

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In other news about THE FALL '01, it has just been picked up for national veiwing at Brave New Theatres.

photo (c) Armando Arias

This is a fund-raising and promotional effort toward the US premiere and tour. Anyone intereted in hosting a screening can get a copy of the DVD for shipping cost only.

"...one of the most potent artistic responses
to war and state terrorism perpetrated by
our government I've ever seen..."

Brett Campbell - Eugene Weekly

Flash trailer   (1 min.)    QuickTime trailer

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Jack Gabel In Review

"...intriguingly brainy yet intensely heartfelt Portland composer..." -- Grant Menzies, Willamette Week

"...Gabel's appealing work sounded like no one else's... a unique and valuable Northwest voice."
-- Brett Campbell, Eugene Weekly

"Gabel's voice is distinct...style: a broad lyricism, nuanced electronics, New Age moodiness, modernist roots and humor."
-- David Stabler, The Oregonian

"...the aural ecstasy of Turtle Island...One of the most original and challenging CDs I've heard all year...a dreamtime journey that is as contemplative as it is hallucinatory."
-- Matthew Moon, Crossroads

" Hellenic Triptych... hails from another musical world... epitomizes imagination and courage..."
-- Eleonora M. Beck, Sforzando

" In the Land of Wu...a remarkably quieting piece, it has an affecting sense of great emotional space."
-- John Duffy, Choral Magazine

" Whale Hunt Dream... evocative, mysterious tone poem of considerable beauty."
-- David W. Moore, The American Record Guide

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Sample pages from Jack Gabel's musical scores are linked below

Akademische Fantasie Variationen

solo piano

Auto-Mobile

sax, processed bass, percussionist/narrator

Hopi Flute Song

large chamber orchestra

In the Land of Wu

SATB choir with string quartet
setting of poetry by Li Po

Island Phantasy

string quartet tone poem
on Japanes folk song

Lion Hunt Dream

saxophone quartet

Whale Hunt Dream

solo viola with full orchestra

To inquire about Jack Gabel's musical scores or request a complete catalog
Tel: 800-757-7384 NPM@NorthPacificMusic.com

go to: North Pacific Music Home Page

email: JACK@NorthPacificMusic.com