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DASH! PHONES IT IN

Published on August 9, 2009 in Dash and Shows. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

phoningitinlo-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”.

DASH! “TAKES SWIFT STRIDES”

Published on April 8, 2009 in Dash, Musical Endeavors and New Music. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

DASH!

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!

SHOWS GALORE

Published on March 20, 2009 in Dash, Musical Endeavors, New Music, Present and Shows. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

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:
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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.
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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.

DEKUM SHOW DOCUMENT

Published on December 12, 2008 in BCS, Movies Move Me, Musical Endeavors, Present, Shows and Visual Music. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

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.

THE OFFICIAL DASH(!) POEM POST

Published on November 23, 2008 in Dash and Movies Move Me. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .


The Dash(!) Poem from Jordan Dykstra on Vimeo.

The Dash
copy­right 1996 Linda Ellis

I read of a man who stood to speak
at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tomb­stone
from the beginning…to the end.

He noted that first came the date of her birth
and spoke of the fol­low­ing date with tears,
but he said what mat­tered most of all
was the dash between those years.

For that dash rep­re­sents all the time
that she spent alive on earth…
and now only those who loved her
know what that lit­tle line is worth.

For it mat­ters not, how much we own;
the cars.…the house…the cash.
What mat­ters is how we live and love
and how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard…
are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left
that can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
to con­sider what’s true and real,
and always try to under­stand
the way other peo­ple feel.

And be less quick to anger,
and show appre­ci­a­tion more
and love the peo­ple in our lives
like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect,
and more often wear a smile…
remem­ber­ing that this spe­cial dash
might only last a lit­tle while.

So, when your eulogy is being read
with your life’s actions to rehash…
would you be proud of the things they
say about how you spend your dash?

http://lindaellis.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/11/the-dash.html

The Dash touches close to home, here in Oregon:

SO SIOUX ME *NEW* VERSION!

Published on October 31, 2008 in Musical Endeavors, New Music and Present. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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.

DASH! OREM(THE SINK) AND TOM BLOOD SHOW IN 1.5HR

Published on August 4, 2008 in Movies Move Me, Musical Endeavors, New Music, Present, Shows and Visual Music. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

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:

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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.

IS HETEROGENEOUS AND MORE

Published on July 15, 2008 in BCS, Musical Endeavors, New Music, Present and Shows. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

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…

DASH! Shows

…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.

DASH! In The Street

Published on June 13, 2008 in Movies Move Me, Musical Endeavors, New Music, Present, Shows and Visual Music. 5 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

June 14, 2008

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!

DASH! 6/14/08

SHINOBI

Published on February 10, 2008 in Musical Endeavors, New Music, Present and Visual Music. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .
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