LISTENING OUT LOUD - is composed by John Driscoll for solo, duet, or trio performance.  The work utilizes bowed crosscut saws, live electronics sympathetic to the saws, gooseneck microphones and a previously recorded performance.

The electronics respond to both the pitch and amplitude of the bowed saws and create a signal which is sent to the loudspeakers and also back to the electronics for decision making within the circuitry. 

The tape signal is to introduce the sound of a previous acoustical space, and is played on a speed-controlled tape player with the speed responsive to the sound of the saws.

Numerous versions have been created:

1. -Listening Out Loud (short strokes) (1979)
   

    for Douglas Dunn - Museum of

    Modern Art (solo)

1. -Clay Banks (1980) for Douglas Dunn & 
   

    Dancers - the Kitchen (duet w/Linda

    Fisher)

1. -Dry Pool (1979) - for film by Andy Ferullo
   

    at empty swimming pool Media /

    Study Buffalo (duet w/ Bill viola)

1. •The American (2014) - for concert at
   

    Mills College (duet with Dan Gottwold),     

    electronics Sam Hertz and reader Julie 

    Moon.