Dia de los Muertos @ Highways by DBL

Friends,

On November 2nd, For Día de los Muertos, I along with other very talented performers will be performing at Highways Performance Space, in Santa Monica, Ca. 

I will be doing my solo piece "Research in Religious Self-Cybernetics: Pruning the Rose, Eating the Thorn".  A Neo-Shaman exploration in sound, movement, And self deconstruction.

I will also be part of a group collaboration that was the result of the La Pocha Nostra workshop that occurred at Highways. 

Michael Nannery :: DBRP :: Intimatchine @ AHC by DBL



Lovers,

The Show at Almost Holden Collective was intimate, tasty, and seductive.

Intimatchine was a lovely hypnotic landscape of dreams.  Michael Nannery was a memory trip of textures and primal awakenings.  AHC thank you for your hospitality. 

Everyone was open to the freakers we are.  Thanks for your support.

It was a treat to further explore this experiment of self deconstruction which is "Research in Religious Self-Cybernetics: Pruning the Rose, Eating the Thorn".  The ritual object which you see was finally named that night.  Pronounce in Spanish, Butó Flutó.  Thanks Wes.  My need for smirks and giggles in my work is much needed.

Enjoy this peek behind the veil... If you were not present.


Intimatchine








D.B.R.P.
























*photos by Christopher Steven Wormald and Brian David. Video by Jacqueline Li and josie j

Update: SoundWalk, Other Performances by DBL


Family,

This year has been a very eventful year.  Many performances and many artwork has yet to be made, but the opportunities I have had this year I have been grateful for.

I have lost my mailing list do to my computer failure but hopefully new social media will add in communication.  Also the few die hard fans can always keep up to date here and on the events page.

Any yes the new computer is on its way... finally.

More shows coming this month (more DBRP performances), in November (as part of the La Pocha Nostra Workshop at Highways) in December (Parallax Beach Debut of Parallax Scroll 2.0 At Highways).  List of events HERE.





This Past weekend Parallax Beach had an opportunity to run though the beginnings of Parallax Scroll in marathon form.  Five 45 min performances in a four hour block.  we finished exhausted, cleansed and accomplished.  Here are a few snippets of the performances. 




via SoundWalk




Instagram photo by @greeniebeanies (Ryan Lampert)













Photos by Hannah Maynard via LB Post


Instagram photo by @chakosroughdraft

Parallax Beach @ SoundWalk October 5, 2013 by DBL





Parallax Scroll is a multi-media performance piece that bridges the abstract landscapes of sound, light, time, and movement. A trio of artists, each utilizing different mediums, come together to make a unique piece.  Wes Johansen creates a visual representation of abstract thought through digital video projection, with live editing and synchronizing directly to the soundtrack.  Mike Meanstreetz uses avant-garde percussion and composition techniques tangling the audience in a web of Synthesia.  These elements are accentuated as josie j conveys transformation to audience through ritualism/ meditative movement influenced partly by Butoh training and a background in performance art.  With additional assistance from Zachary Vidal (audio) and Brennan Lowe (movement).

Parallax Scroll will take the audience on a voyage through the emergence of life. Starting with imagining first sight, the emergence of language, and the development of society -- all the way to the end of time. Severed moments of macrocosmic balance routinely underline human evolution. These moments intrigue, as modernity has alienated us from the immediacy of life. Perceptions of time become mercurial and subjective depending on perspective. All points can viewed when wading on a Parallax Beach

Parallax Beach will be performing Parallax Scroll on October 5, 2013 as part of Soundwalk in Long Beach CA.

Parallax Beach at SoundWalk

EVENT DETAILS

● WHAT: A multi-media performance piece Parallax Scroll, performed as part of the 10th annual “SoundWalk 2013” festival, a one-night event of installations by 40 local and international sound artists.

● WHERE: Artwise 408 1 st. st. and throughout the area encompassed by 4th St, Linden Ave, 1st St, and Elm Ave.

● WHEN: Saturday, October 5th, 2013 from 6–10 pm

● ADMISSION: Free

● PARKING: Metered parking is available on the street; additional parking is also available in the parking lot at the NW corner of Broadway and Elm Ave.
Facebook event at: http://www.facebook.com/events/192642767577120/

Artist Sites:

josie j
www.dbrp.blogspot.com

Wes Johansen
www.blowupyourcar.wordpress.com

Mike Meanstreetz
www.mikemeanstreetz.tumblr.com

josie j of DBRP on Ear Meal Webcast, Season Five by DBL

Via Alan Nakagawa:


Ear Meal is an art webcast documenting the experimental music and sound arts scene in Los Angeles

September 25th, josie j of DBRP will be performing a new solo research piece entitled "Research in Religious Self-Cybernetics: Pruning the Rose, Eating the Thorn" afterwards there will be an interview.

Wednesday night September 25, 2013 9:30 PM PST

http://laartstream.com

NEXT:
Bret Nicely at Deluxe Burrito/ Shangrila, September 18
Josie J, September 25
Slanguage, October 2
Chris Reilly, October 9
Ace Farren Ford and John Wiese, October 16
Kraig Grady, October 23
Soundwalk 2013 (10th and Final), October 30
Carole Kim, November 6
TBD, November 13
Jeremy Morelock, November 20
Sounds of Barcelona, November 27

You can now link directly to each of our past webcasts at:
www.collagecollage.com

TWITTER: @alan_nakagawa

************************************************************************
THE EAR MEAL ARCHIVES:


SEASON ONE:

Joseph Hammer

Drew Lesso with Peter Watkinson and Alan Nakagawa
Dwight Trible with Alan Nakagawa
Michael Whitmore

Kyungmi Shin & Todd Gary

Joe Potts

Department of Real Estate

Carl Stone

Mark Wheaton

Steve and Jeffrey Roden

Ronit Kirchman & Torsten Müller

Renee Petropoulos with Marya Alford and Sojung Kwon
Hans Fjellestad

Alan Nakagawa with Steven M. Irvin and Jeffrey James Mohr
The Clouds

Robert Crouch

Gregory Lenczycki

Anna Homler with Jorge Martin and Alan Nakagawa

Alicia Vogl Saenz with Peter Watkinson and Alan Nakagawa
Tatsuya Nakatani

Rick Potts

Emily Hay

Morton Subotnick (SKYPE Interview)

Albert Ortega
Ear Diorama Ear

Devin Sarno

John Wood

Glenn Bach

Michael Mc Millen

Chas Smith

Scott Cazan

Joe Berardi & Motoko Honda

nowcloud

John Schneider and the Partch Ensemble
Integratron

Ian Henderson

Andrew Featherston

Smgsap

SEASON TWO:

Scott Cazan

The Worlds Biggest Bike Song; Midnight Ridazz
Rick Cox

Mooey Moobau

Corey Fogel

Harrison House with Eva Soltes

Chris Kallmyer

Dorian Wood

Scott Fraser

Mark Trayle

Mooey Moobau and Alan Nakagawa
Tom Watson

Ezra Buchla

Michael Winter

Liam Mooney

Ulrich Krieger

Laura Steenberge

Omayumi with Steven m Irvin and A. Nakagawa
Gabie Strong
Mitchell Brown

Michael Jon Fink with Brian Walsh and Alex Iles

MLum (Chung Shih Hoh, Michael Raco-Rands, Marco Schindelmann, Scott Vance)
Jessica Catron

Lewis Keller

G.E. Stinson

Sandy Yang

Catherine Lamb

James Klopfleisch

Antony DiGennaro

Steuart Liebig

Scott Vance & Dave Tohir

Andrew Pask & Jim McAuley

William Harrington

Brian Walsh

Dan Clucas

Steve Gregoropoulos & Petra Haden

Mari and Julia Holter

Heather Lockie

Ear Diorama Ear
Haruko Tanaka

SEASON THREE:
Daniel Corral
William Roper
Rick Bahto
Matt Barbier
Marty Walker & Erik Leckrone

Southern California Soundscape Ensemble
Vinny Golia

Danielle Adair

Impossible Moon

Archie Carey

Daniel Rothman with Ashley Walters

Claire Chenette

Brad Dutz

Eric KM Clark

Inouk Demers

Roxanne Varzi

The Tenses at the LAFMS/PST at The Box
Douglas Goodwin

Nicholas Deyoe & Clint McCallum

Leslie Ross

Daniel Eaton

Odeya Nini

Stephanie Smith

Trio Kobayashi

Casey Anderson
Tom Recchion

Vetza and Ted Byrne

Alex Sramek

Toomai String Quintet

FINALE part one

Weba Garretson and Ralph Gorodetsky

Paul Stapleton & Ted Byrnes

FINALE Part Two

Jake Rosenzweig; Lumber Party with Archie Carey and Mike Lockwood
Chobraty

Sam Lopez

Devin Hoff

Grampus

Royal US

Alan Nakagawa: Royal Rife 3.0

SEASON FOUR
:
California Indian Soundscape; Georgiana Sanchez, Cindi Alvitre, Craig Torres
Urban Indian Soundscape; John Dawson, Craig Stone, Les Peters and Larry Smith
Stephen Speciale
Micol Hebron with Michael Hanson
Lauren Pratt and the James Tenney Archive
William Leavitt & Paul Tzanetopoulos
Yann Novak & Robert Crouch
Michael Pisaro
Mika Soma & Shinichi Ono
Antony DiGennaro & David Tranchina
Eric Potter
Jim Fox
Alex Wand with Odeya Nini, Heather Lockie, Brendan Byrnes and Jake Rosenzweig
Geneva Skeen & Mathew Timmons
Karla Diaz & Spew
Raquel Gutierrez and Gabie Strong
Joanna Demers
MLuM
Alexis Disselkoen
Wet Power
William Basinski
Guru Rugu
Andrew Choate
Hi My Name Is Ryan
John Galvin & Dan Kapelovitz
Philip Mantione
Mike Sonksen AKA Mike The Poet
Ian James
Lucky Dragons
Brad Dutz & Chris Wabich
KCHUNG Radio
Jennifer Moon
Experimental Music and Sound Art Friendly Venues in LA
Christine Tavolacci and Eric KM Clark
Joshua Carro
Sesshu Foster
Ted Byrnes, Michael Foster & Nicholas Deyoe
ATLAS SETS; Alan Nakagawa & Glenn Bach
Kristy Baltezore


 

Parallax Beach: Call for Performers by DBL



Call for Dancers/ Performers:


Performance group Parallax Beach is looking for dancers/ performers for up coming shows. Performers will participate in shows at the SoundWalk of Long Beach (October 5), Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica (December 6), and others TBA.

A trio of artists, each utilizing different mediums, come together to make a unique multi-media piece. Wes Johansen creates a visual representation of abstract thought through digital video projections, with live editing and synchronizing directly to the soundtrack. Mike Meanstreetz uses avant-garde percussion and composition techniques tangling the audience in a web of Synthesia. These elements are accentuated as josie j conveys transformation to audience through ritualism/ meditative movement influenced partly by Butoh training and background in performance art.


New performance piece Parallax Scroll will take the audience on a voyage through the emergence of life. Starting with imagining first sight, the emergence of language, and the development of society -- culminating to the end of time. As part landscape, characters, and elements performers will transform self and space. Performance will have a ritualistic/ transcendental format with the goal of causing change to audience and artist. 
For more info please contact josie @ divinebrick@gmail.com

Artist Sites:
josie j
www.dbrp.blogspot.com

Mike Meanstreetz
www.mikemeanstreetz.tumblr.com

Wes Johansen
www.blowupyourcar.wordpress.com
 

Don't Perish the Rose by DBL



There are still those that gaze upon the rose bush and only see the thorns. I see it, your beauty is still there. Even if the blooming follows repair. In the action that nurtured hope, sharpen thorns choked each resource. In different ways we look for Truth. Don't second guess that quest you choose.


Found Fortune by DBL

A delicious track Via Mike Meanstreetz...  I get the chills just listening to it.


A new recording by spooky aboriginal spirit shaking FOUND FORTUNE -- a project with Libby O'Flaherty of Montana -- is now up on my band camp! Check it!

http://mikemeanstreetz.bandcamp.com/album/found-fortune


Update: Montana Retreat and Performances by DBL

Greets,

I have been absent from this blog, my apologies.  I have not been idle just mostly working in analog.  This week I will be in Montana.  Hope to come back with some footage of a performance that, in a very butohesque way, will be only for the performers and select few witnesses.

Also I hope to provide some info on a new multi media piece that will be presented at Highways Performance Space and at the Soundwalk of Long Beach.

Until then,

-DBL



PRESENT live at The White Lodge by DBL


Via Mike MeanStreets

The PRESENT show on Friday June 14th has been moved to
WHITE LODGE
4300 W JEFFERSON BLVD, Los Angeles, 90016

https://www.facebook.com/events/520634694666595/
...
(Also, the CIA show on the 16th has been cancelled.)

We are very much looking forward to (touring) Joey Molinaro's one-man-band fiddle grind (with accompanying contact-mic'd combat boot double kick and rattle!) One of my favorite sets I can remember!

Added to the bill is Mumkai
and the video performance of WES and THE CULT OF THE ETERNAL BEAT


performing:


PRESENT (Drums - Mike Meanstreetz of BOW+ARROW, Vox - Angela Gleich, Keys - Holly Spirit)
http://mikemeanstreetz.bandcamp.com/album/critical-dreaming-spring-demo

We are very much looking forward to touring Joey Molinaro's one-man-band fiddle grind (with accompanying contact-mic'd combat boot double kick and rattle). One of my favorite sets I can remember!
http://joeymolinaro.bandcamp.com/album/the-inalienable-dreamless

The live video performance of
WES AND THE CULT OF THE ETERNAL BEAT

BOBBY LONDON
noisetrancecore

Performing live grooves and DJ'ing
MUMKAI
http://mumkai.bandcamp.com/
 
 

Present Debut Performance: June 14th by DBL

Via Mike Meanstreetz:

Los Angeles triage PRESENT debuts with their CRITICAL DREAMING demo and summer shows,
starting Friday June 14th at Hunter House in downtown with Roman Aeon and prolific one man fiddle-grinder
Joey Molinaro hailing from New York.



For Present performance booking email Mike Meanstreetz at viejobajo@yahoo.com
Click on the image to Download

PRESENT's

CRITICAL DREAMING spring demo                    

 




Tuesday Night Post: break by DBL

Friends,

Its finally happened. My computer has died. It was time for a new one. Due to many other artistic and life expenses I had put it off. For now Tuesdays Night Posts will be on break until I can get a steady access to a computer.

Much Respect,

-DBL

Tuesday Night Post #2-27 by DBL

Greeting from the mobile,

At airport picking up a friend. On this post I send a nod to the creative juggernauts that make to make. To the ones I know personally. To the ones I see bunkered down only knowing one thing. Seeing you make your work lights a fire beneath me. Making me realize I can do more

-DBL

*****

Change the face that we are greeted with
Propelling the idea that we do not see
Without a hint to know that we do well
Grabbing every thought that we make in others
Seeing how you work despite the fleeting hours of the day
You are the make of this state

Tuesday Night Post # 2-26 by DBL



The Infectious,
I would like to take just a moment to recognize the many brilliant minds that have fallen.  Precisely this moment is for the onesthat were chopped low before that brilliance could be seen.  Seen by others or seen by the ones thatwere born with a different view, a proper view.

-DBL

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AsNatural as Walking

There is no way to destroy a Force that has but one direction
A direction that is a different form of Consumption
This definition is one forgotten and is more human than we will remember
Error are the ways of present thought
Weaponized for ill
Chosen are the ones built to fail
Severed are the ones hailed as agitators
Sneak the sliding hand
Send it low
Channeled low into a deep valley
Dark
Deep
Light don’t shine in tinted windows
Imagination cannot fly with bars on squares
Put them on a bus to a place where they are forgotten
Let the children see that the exercise to think will only follow with distraction
Starve the child of thoughts renowned let them boast their sickened frowns
These children you took would be the anchors
A brilliant light reflected low for the rest to follow
Burn the end in the morning
Drink the thought in the evening
In a box they will learn
You are mistaken if you think this is
a comment on the present educational system
There exist a place where even you are unfamiliar
A box set aside for the young to rot or fall inside
Self reflected they become dejected
Waiting to be passed from one failure to another
A radiant mind would only find consuming ways to self destroy
This is for the ones that knew before they were broken
There are better answers
Than the ones we hold as tokens
For you the few that Consumed every ounce of satisfaction
That this world is a puzzling sensation
For every question you felt there was an answer
For every point you turned to get it
You found a greater sense that it was out there
All you got was strange reactions
For the moment when you forgot to remember to care
For the moment you died and you cared for no affair
You still had a chance
You left the next a reason to fear a brilliant rant
I won’t forget you child
Your sense of wonder
A simple question brave
For you we fight this plague that
We still try to evade


Tuesday Night Post #2-25 by DBL



Patient Naysayers,

Lets end the argument.  Lets agree that there is nothing to believe. 
Time is short, well this night is.  All I wish I will do, so I cut this short I’m going to spend the rest in a dance. 
-DBL

*     *     *     *     *

The Wasi’chu, the Pariah

This keeps falling out my box
Just as you opened up all those sealed tombs
Few to take the blame
Fewer to explain
As I empty my box of the things that don’t belong
I try to reorganize all the things you took from the encoded songs
My vision is only a weak connection with the past
The same one you took so you can last
As I get closer to razing the WhiteBox
Your growth surpasses the one I try to resolve
You and I see the desperate fight
Of the two sides that give the Force to a body upright
You and I see the change
The question is not what to believe or not
Let the adults fight
Forgetting that in truth it ends
In questioning it begins
For you its about the respect and awe that kept us in flight
A choice is yours to spread your wings of copper
It’s my choice to make mine in something I find more proper
As you approach a single moment undefined
It looks like I turn away left alone a path unrefined
Mine is the voice that you tried to forget
A nail looking for the force that could get it set
We know lots has been answered
Past the stage of assessment we are engaged in application
You want war you want a destruction of what came before
Turned away I keep it in
I am myself I dance in myself
Nothings true at this state
Until the end I keep it straight






Tuesday Night Post # 2-24 by DBL



Unknown Lovers Made of Substance of the Stars,

Believe that what we know will change in a present time, tomorrow.  Be ready to accept things your child self would have had an easy time.  Prepare to love the things that same child longed to see.  Forget the ground that you find so dear rejoice in the urge to resist the voices that pull you here and there.  Never forget the lover that made you who you are.  Smash the thumb that keeps you all but a dog.  Let your minds eye tear to clear the fog that smears your fear.
-DBL

*     *     *     *     *    

Isolate the crooked bone
Wind that urge that leaves you to believe
In that seat left occupied with the heat
This is fiction resolved to exist to replace
Known is objects hide in plan sight
Reasons creep in stride with shadows
Never can shake the black skirt
Willingness to love the space in which it spins
In a warm bed in a cool room lies the resistance
This birth that there will be            
Will be the fight we will leave
Change the cheers of pride
Make them tears that one can not hide
Blank will be the paper that will unfold
All the things that could not be acknowledged
Running from the fear of being left alone
Charge one to keep this throne
Swear sweep stare share all that needs to repeat
Scar the flesh that has more strength when it reverts
Gentle finger guide the palm
Into the intersection of numb and hooked resolve
Age passes on a wave of control and comfort
A step towards vocal call is a call to dissent
Feet assemble on a platform of love
Burning their soles in the crucible of misguide empathy


Tuesday Night Post # 2-23 by DBL



Distant Strangers,

  Find it simple to let it pass through you.  Like a chill that you can't control but feels free and pleasurable.  Wild is a thought a irreplaceable fear of morning light.  What do I search for?  An empty space to stay.  That thought that reminds you what you once understood is actual something you never could. 

-DBL

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 She Died Cold, I lived  Seeing Her Mold
(Stories of the Two)

A rising step from heel to toe
Keep this thought close around ample room
Deep in a place a light sequesters a hope to grow
Back when you found it hard to say
Everyone has their way to not to show
Now I get the hints reliving sounds eyes rising wheels turning
Sudden vision of you practicing your gifts
Maybe then I had no way had no help devils live in quiet
To really share manufactured hearts broken machine stuck to stare
Never new just confused often found
Sent away in hopes you would be around

In my heart never true
They tell us sacrifice the new
In a dream walking near
With those heels I never fear

Stretch the time of every night
Details never lost as we engage in this artificial recited flight
Words we choose always right hazy dream teasing me
As before I left you there quiet safe high above the stage of fear
Revisit that one place there you stand always full of grace
Safe to dance wild swing arms climb the vine
Chasing that thing you missed before chasing it just a kiss to adore
Breaking down expose the want finally you are content grab it tight

In this heart never true
Tell me to sacrifice the new
In this scene you walk near
With those heels I never fear

In that thought it was right adjusting for the windy sight
A shoulder pressed hard and strong on a wall of nether thought
Holding back the words guarding back the choice to break
An honest theft to not show you wrinkle you scold you
Had it all never needed to adjust the screw
Just pretend all is grey find it better than to stay clouds cover rancid mildew
Lets spend the moment that follows looking at the line of our dearest desires
A simple map of that stage we never cleared standing on the liquid grave of fear
Always moving always flowing always chases us to empty glory
At the bottom of the pool this rose bathed and pruned drowned of smoke and booze
In dark there is only nightmares but for me
There I find my curse I wrap around this cold fire choke in smoke

Drown your heart kill the true
Show me you sacrificed your new
In my vision you walked with me
In your heels you seemed free