I'm interested in making music that becomes a vehicle for the performers and audience to explore their sounds and environments.

Marc Jensen is a composer, performer, and improviser, who recently received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of Minnesota. Much of his work is oriented around composing relationships rather than specific sounds - setting up situations in which performers follow simple sets of rules to interact and produce an unpredictably complex whole. In a sense, Jensen?s work can best be described as composed frameworks for improvisation, musical structures without content. His principle teachers have included Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Curran, Alex Lubet, and Doug Geers. Dr. Jensen holds a teaching certificate through the Deep Listening Institute, and has edited several books on Deep Listening. He is the author/composer of Open Spaces: Environmental Listening and Sounding, soon to be available from the Deep Listening Institute, and has published articles in the journals Perspectives of New Music, Tempo, and Cinema Journal.