Hella Baked Tapes

I have a music show coming up later this month on Thursday 4/30/09 in San Francisco. It is for an art show at Creativity Explored that is exploring the concept of “Repetition”. Creativity Explored is a nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art.
Eight highly original artists, each of whose work is unique but is united through the use of repetitive processes across media and style, will be showcased at the Creativity Explored gallery in “Repetition”. This arresting exhibition, which highlights studio practice, reveals the natural way that artists work, as well as a compelling impulse to do a specific thing. It also addresses the range of subtleties and the sophistication that can be achieved through the persistent exploration of a single subject and medium.
I will be performing the music for the event from 6:30 - 8:30. I have spent some time recording sounds with the artists at Creativity Explored and will utilize these “art sounds” to create a variety of unique and organic compositions. The 2nd part of the show will feature a live re-creation of several songs from “Source Domain” (my last album) with Sarah Jo Zaharako performing on violin.
This will surely be a unique show and I look forward to exploring the concept of Repetition through the use of my electronic instruments and the collection of organic sounds I have recorded with the students.
The studio also just published a small article on their blog which details the recording work I did with their artists this past week:
http://www.creativityexplored.org/whats_new/studio_blog/2009/04/sounds_of_the_studio/

Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Creativity Explored
3245 16th Street (at Guerrero Street) 
San Francisco, CA
FREE

Special thanks to Tina at KSRQ 90.1 FM up in chilly Thief River Falls, Minnesota for playing Source Domain. We very much appreciate the airtime at this independent, volunteer-driven community radio station and are happy to hear from new fans! As a matter of fact, we’d like to direct you to their pledge page to help raise money for their station.  
Please support independent public radio, especially in Minnesota! :)  

Live performance recorded August 15th, 2008 at Laughing Lotus SF
Enjoy the free album download and thanks for all your support! 

Many thanks to my friends in Champaign, Illinois at WEFT, 90.1 FM for playing a variety of songs from Source Domain on their Wednesday programs, “Poodles Ahoy”, and in their normal rotation.

Join Poodles McGee of the FCC as he celebrates his weekly escape from the office and his home in Peotone with broken beats, savory meats, and sundry treats. Warning: may involve remix culture; may deviate into themes; may contain nuts.

http://poodlesahoy.blogspot.com/
http://weft.org

 
Special thanks to the music director and content programmers at WYCE 88.1 FM Community Media Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan for playing several tracks off of Source Domain. We’re in rotation on their 7-day music chart along with many other exceptional musicians! Thanks for the support!
WYCE 7 Day Chart

Some of you might have not known I had an impromptu performance the other week ago along with one of my cohorts, Painted Cakes, at the new Forthrite Printing gallery that just opened nearby in Oakland. It was one of my first shows since completing Source Domain and I was quite pleased with how it went. Well it turns out the show was reviewed by Shumit DasGupta, a freelance writer for Stereo Subversion, and he gave us quite a glowing review of our show!
Here’s an excerpt:

What sets these musicians aside from all of this is an approach I couldn’t conceive of before I watched them do their thing. Not only did they employ live musicians - on this night a bassist by the perhaps self-aggrandizing tag of Super Das G - but took their samples from the fertile grounds of the East Bay neo-jazz scene. That is to say, all of their clips were recorded directly, live, and unadulterated from real musicians, really close. Monstrous polyrhythms, textured chunks of double bass strokes, delicate strains of counterpoint melodies like air-whipped frosting through the nozzle of the noble violin - all of these harvested on local soil.

Master chefs make cooking look like a well-earned joy, and these DJs (and that is far too antiquated a term to describe them, but vocabulary is slow to keep pace with innovation) are no exception. They bring to the table prepared cuts, beats and riffs they’ve constructed beforehand, and liberally fuse them with both elements of improvisation and craft. At multiple points throughout the evening I watched them pass the buck from set to set, with no other obvious lead to each other but a two syllable vocal cue as to what time signature they were cooking in.

From: Stereo Subversion/Concert Reviews/Painted Cakes & Stevedood
Thanks for the review Shumit!
Stereo Subversion

Thanks to WMBR in Cambridge, MA and their morning show, “Breakfast of Champions” for playing “Hypervigilant”, track 4 off Source Domain.  
WMBR Breakfast of Champions  

01/24/08 Added: Thanks to WMBR for also featuring “Something Suppressant” on their “Breakfast of Champions” morning shows.
010308 BoC 
011608 BoC 

Special thanks to Dave at WZBC 90.3 FM in Boston for featuring “Compassion Fatigue” (Track 2 off Source Domain) on his ZBC Rock holiday playlist. Much love to all our friends in Boston!
12-24-7 Spinitron Playlist 
WZBC 90.3 FM  

01/22/08 added: Also thanks also to DJ Paul at WZBC for playing Compassion Fatigue on January 1st 2008, 2nd track of the morning: 01-01-08 Spinitron Playlist 

Happy holidays and special thanks to KALX 90.7 FM and Marshall Stax for featuring two tracks off of Source Domain over the holiday season as part of his weekly “The Next Big Thing” show. Having listened to his show on past Monday evenings after work,  I was also stoked to hear he chose “Caterpillar” and “Something Suppressant” as the feature tracks for his Christmas Eve show. 

KALX is one of my favorite local stations here in the east bay and their support is much appreciated.

http://kalx.berkeley.edu/
Marshall Stax | The Next Big Thing 

Many thanks to Paul Glanting at URB Magazine for the music review of Source Domain and the plug for “Fake Beats”, track 6 of 13. It’s free on Imeem too, check the links below for review & download.
stevedood | URB Magazine | Fake Beats
stevedood | imeem | Fake Beats