I have got a remix available on Specta Ciera’s new EP, “Snowflake Collections” (Secret Station Records). Download this FREE album now!
Special thanks to Devin for giving me the opportunity to remix his work and to Secret Station Records for giving this lovely album a proper home.
I recently worked w/New York-based dance company, Palissimo, using some of my Offsets material from earlier this year. Offsets is a long-distance musical collaboration between myself & Scotland-based Dominic Dixon.
Special thanks go to: Pavel, for the opportunity to collaborate; Michelle, for your inspiration and voice; the students of ELS in Washington, DC, for lending their voices; Dominic, for creating the original music together and for allowing me the creative freedom to expand upon our work.
Learn more:
http://www.palissimo.com
http://www.benjamindauer.net
http://www.offsetsmusic.com
Thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy the work.
I recently worked w/New York-based dance company, Palissimo, using some of my Offsets material from earlier this year.
While I finish making the final edits to the composition I contributed to this performance (will post the audio separately, soon), here are the details for the world premiere of Halt!. Special thanks go to: Pavel, for the opportunity to collaborate; Michelle, for your inspiration and voice; the students of ELS in Washington, DC, for lending their voices; Dominic, for creating the original music together and for allowing me the creative freedom to expand upon our work.
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Dance theater company Palissimo gets out of the theater and into the streets this fall with the free site-specific performance installation Halt! at the Whitehall Ferry Terminal in Manhattan.
Choreographed by Pavel Zustiak, the company artistic director and winner of a Princess Grace Award for choreography, Halt! is a performance-driving installation commissioned by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council through The September 11th Fund, and coordinated through the New York City Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program under its Arterventions initiative.
Halt! will be performed by Palissimo inside the Staten Island Ferry’s Lower Manhattan terminal from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, from October 26-30.
Amidst turnstiles and commuters, three stellar performers present a dance performance in accompaniment with a playful and compelling audiovisual component that offers an intentional contrast to the bustling energy of life in lower Manhattan. Halt! draws passers-by into a theatrical arena, reframing their daily commute and inviting them to reconnect with space, time and with each other – an exotic proposition given the virtual reality of today’s online “meeting places.” Halt! features the talents of New York dancers Gina Bashour, Lindsey Dietz Marchant and Jeffrey Jacobs, performing among and engaging with members of the moving public.
Halt!’s set design was created by longtime Palissimo collaborator Nick Vaughan, with sound design also by Zustiak, Benjamin Dauer, Christian Frederickson, Thiago Tiberio and Kevin Keller. The installation includes a “Sound Bar” of headsets that viewers can tune into multiple soundtracks to score the performance and shape how they experience the show. Halt! is an oasis of private contemplations amidst a sea of strangers connected through shared public space.
Photos © Jose Aragon, Richard Termine, Jakub Szyma, Steven Schrieber
Apoidea (Sketch 2) - Benjamin Dauer fea. Michelle Magdalen
For this next track we are focusing our attention on the bees (honey & mason). With the dramatic decline in honey bee populations, there is intensive research going on about the possibility of ‘replacing’ them w/the mason bee. This is not as altruistic as it sounds given that there are huge economic factors at play.
This song explores the quiet anguish of what it might be like to be forced, uncontrollably, into obsolescence.
This sketch (#2) features poetry by Michelle.
For those following along, Michelle and I are working towards a concept benefit album for the pollinators (butterflies, bees, bats, birds). All proceeds from sales will be donated to organizations working to preserve and protect these species.
If this is your first time listening, you can find our first song (Aurelia) for the butterflies here: Aurelia.
As always, thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy the song. Please share.
I’ve just released the new version of jQTouch, my open source jQuery plugin for mobile development. jQTouch allows developers to create powerful, native-looking apps on the iPhone with just HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
The beta has new themes and demos, support for new events, including swipe detection and page transitions, and new options for fullscreen mode, including icon and startup screen. jQTouch is written in HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery. Check out the demo video to see it in action!
Notify, a menubar app that keeps you up-to-date in regards to your Gmail account. Supports multiple accounts in a gorgeous, minimal interface.
