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AugustAug 4 Monday 08
DASH! OREM(THE SINK) AND TOM BLOOD SHOW IN 1.5HR
Tonight at the Towne Lounge in Portland, ORE Dash!, Orem(the sink), and Tom Blood (aka Grand Junction Grand Therapy) are playing and it's gonna be a special night.
Tony is debuting a video for Qurbani that he did the voice-over for with Ariel. Dash! is doing a …
JulyJul 16 Wednesday 08
IS HETEROGENEOUS AND MORE
I am pleased to announce the debut of the new DASH! album called Is Heterogeneous. Explore it over at the Prescott Family. Highlights include seven new tracks, a removable color sticker-cover painting by David Coyne, and a new album that I believe represents …
JuneJun 29 Sunday 08
PANNING
(Not recommended for computer speakers, headphones okay, better yet is a stereo setup sitting five or more feet back)
Which side is the melody on?
And which the bass?
Can you hear when they change?
And when they reverse?
JuneJun 14 Saturday 08
DASH! In The Street
DASH! is opening up for a rad avant-garde film screening that's happening tomorrow evening in association with Portland Cinema Project's "In The Street" series. The following are showing:
Under The Brooklyn Bridge by Rudy Burckhardt [1953, 16mm, b&w, 15 …
JuneJun 12 Thursday 08
LOST
I just watched the pilot of a show called Lost on ABC and it was really cool and it seems to be a really great idea for a awesome show. It's about a plane full of people that crashes on an island and was scary and there is this freaky bald dude and this hot girl …
JuneJun 10 Tuesday 08
THE SPENCE AND THE GIB
The Spence and the Gib from Jordan Dykstra on Vimeo.
Video documentation of the Matthew and Laura's wedding on May 17, 2008. Photo documents can be found here.
AprilApr 14 Monday 08
COSMOS WONDER-CHILD
Kay Gardner
A Rainbow Path
Ladyslipper Records, 1984
Cover art by Gina Halpern
Side One:
01. Processional (Root Chakra, Saraswati Raga in C)
02. Dorian Hills (Belly Chakra, Aeolian/Dorian Modes in D)
03. Awakening (Solar Plexus Chakra, Dorian Mode in E)
04. The …
MarchMar 7 Friday 08
MIKE O'S: THE MUSIC VIDEO
Along with director and Dave Nuss, The Righteous and Harmonious Fists have made a music video for our song called "Mike O's". The song is going to be released on a split 7" record, along with a head banging White Fang jam, in the next few months through Marriage …
FebruaryFeb 15 Friday 08
A SMILING DUTCHMAN: VAN DYKE PARKS
Welcome the inauguration of a new series of posts regarding my favorite composers! Expect more soon.
To begin with, I got chills watching this excellent Dutch documentary from 2002 which, simply put, is viewed like you might read a book:
Of course, …
JanuaryJan 29 Tuesday 08
OK FEEL GOOD
A few weeks ago in my composition class at PSU, my professor introduced us to a piece called OK FEEL GOOD by a composer named Jonathan Newman. I was instantly taken back by it. The piece was written, as Newman states in the notes of the score, during "a year of …
DecemberDec 24 Monday 07
GETS CONNECTED, TOO: 2007
Each year, a couple of friends and I from Sioux City always make, and trade, our (sometimes not) uniquely own "Best Of" mixes from our favorites of that year. But this year I decided to make a mixtape of snippets from some of the songs I really enjoyed. I must …
DecemberDec 17 Monday 07
RECORD / MOVE
Dated news for some, new for others, I moved:
425 se 3rd ave #208
portland, or 97214, usa
and I'm finally making my first Dash! record:
Titled Gets Unrecovered, it's a collection of some of the new, some of the old. Eleven tracks, also showcasing a …
NovemberNov 14 Wednesday 07
COMPUTING SYNESTHESIA
Speaking of visual and conceptual relationships, I've been enjoying some strange trips from using a unique software called RGB MusicLab. It was cleverly designed by Kenji Kojima who explains it quite well by saying,
RGB MusicLab converts RGB (Red, Green and …
NovemberNov 3 Saturday 07
THE SIOUX CITY SYMPHONY
Although completed in the spring of 2007, I have yet to show my first large-scale symphonic work, The Sioux City Symphony, to a wide audience. I worked on it for about a year, originally as a self-commissioned goal of submitting it to the 2007 APU Composition …
OctoberOct 14 Sunday 07
Brand Upon The Brain!
