DASH!
"TAKES SWIFT STRIDES" EP
MDIG002, Marriage Records
Available here for a mere $4.
TRACKS
01. New Stars' Art
02. Hypnotiq World (listen)
03. No Way?!
04. The Dash Way!
05. Ew Tartar
06. How Do You Feel?
I'm very excited to release this short record, my first on Marriage Records, as a "digital download only release". It utilizes our new web-based software called Coupe designed by tech mastermind Greg Borenstein. Similar to the download code that you get when you buy a vinyl record these days, Marriage is breaking ground by eliminating the physical copy and selling pieces of paper (or in my situation a color postcard), bric-a-brac, or other non-related pieces of merch with the uniquely coded sticker pasted to it. A new venture. So rad to have this at our disposal!
Check out the record, I'm really proud of it and recorded it in mid-February through the end of March at the BCS Studio B and at the Marriage Records Studio. The final track, "How Do You Feel?" is a culmination of a feeling and idea that I have been working on for 5 years... I think I've settled in on something that I am finally ready to show to the world. Enjoy!
Proud to officially announce the myspace release of 2 new tracks I recently finished (HYPNOTIQ WORLD and NEW STARS' ART) as well as a plethora of shows coming up in the next week. This one is happening tonight:
03/21/2009 08:00 PM - Reed College
Playing a composed improv trio set with Bob Jones and Jonathan Seilaff as well as a piece by Matt Marble. Adam Reese will perform as well. Blogged here and here.
03/24/2009 08:00 PM - Valentines
232 SW Ankeny
Portland, Oregon 97204
Cost: Free
I will contributing some viola for a Ghosting set with local audiophile, Zach Reno.
03/28/2009 08:00 PM - Worksound Gallery
820 SE Alder
Portland, Oregon 97202
Cost: Donations, please
Description: Playing with Mary, Bob, and Jonathan. Also playing: Gust Burns and Jason Kahn.
04/04/2009 07:00 PM - The Wail
NE 42nd and Sumner
Portland, Oregon 97218
Description: Space’s Day installation show at the Wail! Gonna be wicked. There will be a large zome dome with multiple celestial animated/non-animated projections. Curated by our friend Kaylee. Do check out her Flickr.
Honey, Ashby, and I played this show a two Fridays ago and I made a little video of it using some footage I took while mixing paint for the new, almost completed, BCS Vibe and Recording Booth that I'm building at the BCSHQ. I have been working on this sculpture/room/project for about 2 months or a little more. It's been an extremely fun and learned project using mostly free and/or found materials. A bit crunk, but very practical. Hope to do a new Orem record in there, some Dash, some orchestral recordings and practice sessions, sit, listen to nothing, vibe out, you know. More once it's "done".
Anyway, Honey engineered and produced the viola effects for me at this show and Ashby did her thing on vox. Check it out:
http://www.vimeo.com/2510173
Also worth mentioning is that tomorrow at the Worksound Gallery in Portland I am participating in a collaborative large ensemble improvised show with some 20+ musicians. I'm very excited for this one and it should not be missed.
Boy Gorilla has a new compilation coming out soon! The Fists, who recorded their new track with the recently discovered SoundCloud, will be featured on this Portland compendium and so will I. I stayed up real late tonight working on my new piece which is a homage to the 3rd movement in the Sioux City Symphony.
After listening to this guy I decided it needed a few changes, please forgive me if you really enjoyed the older one. If you didn't, hopefully this will make up for those qualms...
CHECK OUT THE NEW VERSION:
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DASH! - So Sioux Me *NEW VERSION* (4.9MB)
Special thanks to Jonathan Sieloff who played bass clarinet.
Crystal Seth recently made a few recordings in Portland. More to come... Download the zip file containing New Fun Now with above artwork here.
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 completely visual set with a special unofficial debut of the new video directed by Dave Nuss. Here is a sneak peak:
Gonna be a fun night, come out if you. Me and Tony have been building it up a bunch and are super super excited. The Orem set is gonna be all electronic bliss and Tom's got soooo many sleeves to pull tricks from. Thanks for reading this.
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 my current live show.
Speaking of which, I might soon be performing that very show near you during the next couple of weeks...
...on tour with Jared Mees and the Grown Children, we performed at the Doug Fir last night and are leaving Portland today. Think there will most likely be a few more shows in Idaho but I haven't confirmed. Really really stoked for the SLC Pioneer Day show with local ambient trippers Stag Hare!!!! Also do what you can to check out the White Fang/White Rainbow/Rob Walmart tour which has already begun...think they're playing at the Smell with Lucky Dragons on Sunday July 20th. I'm going to try to check it out, let me know if you wanna carpool.
Finally, we wrapped up the final day of shooting for the DASH! video for "You Keep Kicking (The Walls You've Become)". The shoot was handled well with ease and guidance by David and Daniel Nuss. It is going to be pretty epic and I heard last night that they're already begun to cut the footage (this is slang for editing I'm told). I'm working on putting together a making-of with the footage Tony and I shot. So many people helped out and I'd like to thank every single person for their contributions especially Dave Nuss, Dan Nuss, Sam Guerro, and Tony Ortega....
Digital Flickr photo album for review here.
Experiment in panning...
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(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?
Visual explanatory answer.
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 min]
In the Street by Helen Levitt [1952, 16mm, b&w, sound, 16 min]
Mirror Animation by Portland's own Harry E. Smith [1979, 16mm, color, sound, 11 min]
(I'm really excited to see work from this amazing man. Check out his "Early Abstractions" (1946-57), Pt. 1: )
The Riddle of Lumen by Stan Brakhage [1972, 16mm, color, silent, 17 min]
The Black Tower by John Smith [1987, 16mm, color, sound, 24 min]
I'm playing at 8:30 and the films start at dusk.
3125 NE Burnside (across from Music Millennium)
Portland, OR 97214
Free or very cheap!
