lo-fi is the right fi: dj talksonthephone calls up all your favorite musicians for live over-the-phone performances and awkward conversation.
A while back I had the pleasure of playing the KDVS radio show called “Phoning It In”. Literally over the phone, I played a set from the Marriage Studio here in Portland. It has finally been posted on their site for stream and download. Digital decay has never sounded so good!
There are plenty of other great shows on the archive to check out as well including friends Cole Moldy Milner, LAKE, Cryptacize, Ben and Bruno, The Watery Graves of Portland, World, Little Wings, Thanksgiving, and recently, Davis Lee Hooker playing songs from his new record that I composed strings for, “Dark Town Dark City”.
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:
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.
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.…
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: )
lo-fi is the right fi: dj talksonthephone calls up all your favorite musicians for live over-the-phone performances and awkward conversation.
