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SELECTED RECORDINGS & EVENTS 1973 - 2012
”Mr. Deane adjusted his electronics with the glee of a villain in a
science fiction epic and raised his trombone as if it were a weapon"
"He could have been a sorcerer"
The New York Times
”Circuitry in the service of aesthetics”
Interview Magazine
”When Deane orchestrates a series of feedback loops
the result is beautiful, driving and mercurial”
THE Magazine
INSTANT TAKEMITSU
Link to Article http://www.guitarmoderne.com/artists/spotlight-instant-takemitsu
SHORT BIO
Over a career spanning four decades multi-instrumentalist, sound-designer, conductor Dino J.A. Deane has demonstrated a unique and innovative approach to the world of music. Deane pioneered the use of live-electronics in Indoor Life a popular art/punk band from San Francisco during the early 1980's. There he played trombone controlled synthesizer that emulated the sound of an electric guitar and employed a tape-echo to create in the moment loops. Soon afterwards he was touring the world as the electro-acoustic live-sampling percussionist with Jon Hassell. That collaboration resulted in the ground breaking Power Spot recording for ECM in 1986, produced by Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois. During that same period Deane became a close collaborator in Butch Morris's real-time composition creations called Conductions and in 1995 co-produced Morris's epic 10 CD box set Testament for New World Records. Deane coined the term live-sampling, which means to record members of the ensemble while in performance, manipulate the sound and play back the recorded audio as part of the piece, all in real time. He is considered a master in this field of performance. Deane has an extensive background in composition for modern dance having created over fifty dance/music works with his partner, dancer choreographer Colleen Mulvihill. He has an equally long history creating sound designs for dramatic theater, working with writer directors as diverse as Sam Shepard, Julie Hebert, Christoph Marthaler and John Flax of Theater Grottesco. Dino is sought after by music festivals, instrumental ensembles, spoken word artists, film makers, theater companies and conservatories worldwide for performances, projects and workshops.
CHRONOLOGY
RECORDINGS - Dino J.A. Deane - (1995-2011)
2011 - Without Desires
Flesh Isn't Real Dirt
2008 - The Webster Cycles
2006 - Taiji Pole
2002 - Hex
2000 - These Times
Grand Cross Eclipse
1999 - SoloDino
1995 - Nomad
CONCERTS - Dino J.A. Deane - (1988-2012)
2012 - SoLoDiNo, AHA Festival, Santa Fe
Black Iron Trio, High Mayhem, Santa Fe
Instant Takemitsu, 1K Sessions & East Coast Tour
2011 - SoLoDiNo, Warehouse 21, Santa Fe
DJ-DUO, The Roost & KUNM
2010 - SoLoDiNo, Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
Deane & Dunn, Santa Fe Complex
2009 - SoLoDiNo, High Mayhem, Santa Fe
Live re-mix @ Punkt Festival, Norway
2006 - DinoDuos, The Stone, NYC
2005 - Taiji Pole, High Mayhem Festival, Santa Fe
1999 - SoloDino, Composers Symposium UNM
1998 - SoloDino, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe
1997 - Deane & Melford, Henry Cowell Festival, Cal State Berkeley
1995 - SoloDino, NYC, Albuquerque, San Francisco
1988 - These Times, ICA Boston
DANCE/MUSIC WORKS with Colleen Mulvihill - (1982-2000)
2000 - Lizard, Albuquerque
1998 - 7 Gates, Santa Fe
1997 - Retrospective, Santa Fe
1994 - Sunken Cathedrals, San Francisco
1993 - Solid Longing, with City Contemporary Dance Co, Hong Kong
1992 - Interiors*, Edge Festival, San Francisco
*Isadora Duncan Award Outstanding Musical Score
1991 - Interiors, Santa Fe & Oakland
1990 - Ring of Changes, San Francisco
1989 - Dark Lullaby, Santa Fe
1988 - Conversation, San Francisco
1987 - The Bride, San Francisco
1986 - H.T.M.H.M, NYC & San Francisco
1985 - Dream Vendor, Kunstmuseum Basel
1984 - First Figure, with Margaret Jenkins Dance Co, US Tour
1983 - Echo Loop, NYC
1982 - Memory Track, NYC & San Francisco
RECORDINGS with Out Of Context (OOC) - (1999-2006)
2006 - WeNoMadMen
2005 - 1" = 25 Miles
2001 - Never Never Land
1999 - Live at the Outpost
CONCERTS & PROJECTS with OOC & Dino conducting other ensembles - (1997-2012)
2012 - Outpost, Albuquerque - OOC concert (with special guest Myra Melford - piano)
The Stone, NYC, conducting the Stone Ensemble (curated by Butch Morris)
Kimmel Center, Philly, conducting students from the creative music program
2011 - Outpost, Albuquerque, Echo-Locution, conducting an ensemble of poets & percussion
Punkt Festival, Norway, conducting students from the University of Agder
2010 - High Mayhem, Santa Fe - OOC Memorial Concert for Sam Rhodes
Punkt Festival, Norway, conducting students from the University of Agder
2006 - High Mayhem Festival @ Wisefool, Santa Fe - OOC concert
OOC - recorded score for the film The Burden Carriers
OOC - recorded score for the play Wenomadmen
2004 - Outpost, Albuquerque, OOC plays the book 1"=25 Miles by M. Carnahan
Santa Fe New Music Festival @ Lensic, conducting the Circle Percussion Ensemble
2003 - High Mayhem Festival @ CCA, Santa Fe - OOC concert
2002 - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, OOC plays the photographs of Edward Weston
1999 - Taos Film Festival, OOC plays a live score to Peter Pan 1932
1997 - Outpost, Albuquerque, OOC plays 1st concert
SOUND DESIGNS for Theater - (1983-2012)
2012 - STORM, Theater Grottesco & OOC, @ Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
2010 - OM, Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe
2009 - The Richest Dead Man Alive, Theater Grottesco, Sante Fe
2008 - 12th Night, Theater Grottesco, @ Santa Fe Opera
2007 - Fortune, Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe
2006 - WENOMADMEN, Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe
Try Being Alive in THIS World, Burning Books Installation, College of Santa Fe
2003 - Keyholes, Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe
2001 - This is Life as We Know It, Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe
2000 - Shorts, Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe
1999 - Simpatico, Compo Santo, San Francisco
1998 - The Angels' Cradle, Theater Grottesco, US Tour
A Question of Mercy, Magic Theater, San Francisco
1997 - Dillinger, KUNM
1996 - Pieces of the Quilt, Magic Theater, San Francisco
Waiting at the Waters Edge*, Magic Theater, San Francisco
*Theatre Critics Nomination Outstanding Sound Design
1995 - The Sirens, Magic Theater, San Francisco
Firmament, La Mama, NYC
1994 - Sucht/Lust, Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hamburg
Tongues/Savage Love*, Magic Theater, San Francisco
*Theatre Critics Award Outstanding Musical Score
1991 - States of Shock, American Place Theatre, NYC
1990 - Greek*, Magic Theatre, San Francisco
*Theatre Critics Nomination Outstanding Sound Design
1989 - The Promise, Magic Theater, San Francisco
1988 - Pickup Axe*, Eureka Theater, San Francisco
*Theatre Critics Nomination Outstanding Sound Design
1987 - True Beauties*, Magic Theatre, San Francisco
*Drama-Logue Award Outstanding Sound Design
1984 - Fool For Love*, Circle Rep, NYC
*Obie Award Best Production
1983 - Fool for Love*, Magic Theatre, San Francisco
*Theatre Critics Nomination Outstanding Sound Design
RECORDINGS with Butch Morris - (1986-2011)
2011 - Verona 2CD set
2007 - Conduction/Induction 2CD set
2000 - Interflight
1999 - Holy Sea 2CD set
1996 - Burning Cloud
1995 - Testament 10CD box
1991 - Dust to Dust
X-Communication
1987 - Homeing
1986 - Trios
CONCERTS with Butch Morris - (1985-2009)
2009 - Nublu 12, (conduction #186), Lisbon
Folding Space, Angelica Festival, Lugo & Modena
2008 - Nublu, NYC, Rome, Bergamo
2003 - Sheng, Venice Biennale
2001 - Conduction, NYC & Lisbon
2000 - Conduction, Istanbul & Madrid
1998 - Holy Ghost, NYC
1996 - Orchestra Della Toscana, Florence
1995 - Skyscraper, Verona
1994 - Excesstet, Hamburg
The Cloth, Verona
1993 - Trio, FMP Festival, Berlin
Freuds Garden, Munich
1992 - Conduction, NYC, Istanbul, Montreal, Kassel
1991 - Vanguard Band, NYC, Saalfelden
1990 - Trio, Audio Box Festival, Matera
X-Communication, FMP Festival, Berlin
1989 - Trio, Vancouver
X-Communication, Nickelsdorf
Conduction, Whitney Museum, NYC
1988 - Trio, Euro Tour
X-Communication, Euro Tour
1987 - Homing FMP Festival, Berlin
1986 - Trio ARS Electronica, Linz
1985 - Goya Time, (conduction #3), NYC
RECORDINGS with John Zorn
1987 - Cobra 2CD set
RECORDINGS with Jon Hassell - (1986-2009)
2009 - Last Night The Moon Came
1988 - Flash of the Spirit
1987 - Surgeon of the Night Sky
1986 - Power Spot
CONCERTS with Jon Hassell - (1982-2009)
2009 - U.S. Tour & Sydney Opera House, Luminous Festival
2008 - Euro Tour
1988 - Tours of Europe & Japan w Farafina
1987 - Euro Tour w Farafina
1986 - Tours of Europe & U.S.
1985 - Euro Tour
1983 - Tours of Europe & Japan
1982 - Tours of Europe & U.S.
RECORDINGS with Indoor Life
1985 - Indoor Life III
1983 - Indoor Life II
1980 - Indoor Life I
CONCERTS with Indoor Life
1982 - San Francisco, NYC, Tour of France
1981 - San Francisco, NYC, Tour of France
RECORDINGS with Ike & Tina Turner
1973 - Nutbush City Limits
REVIEWS
SoLoDiNo @ W21 (Santa Fe 6/10/11)
He lights fires. He puts them out. He doesn't do weddings. He won't dance. He takes his instrument into his hands, as an attenuator of raw power. He succeeds. All the particles come together. In perfect unpredictable command of the heuristic process. Art is expression. No other way to make such dizzying overlaps of layered waves of sound-shale seem so gaspingly interesting. Okay, he uses some electronic purolator filter piston engine-ing, but that's okay. Mostly it all occurs in real time, which, thankfully, has only a slight connection to the mental arena we each inhabit in our so-called personal life. We get to take a ride, go outside, hide, connect, exit our own containers, while hearing, or let's say experiencing. This is blessedly right.
--Melody Sumner Carnahan, 2011
2006 - TAIJI POLE - (highmayhem)
Dino J.A. Deane - vertical flute, electronics, live-looping
Carlos Santistevan - verticle bass, electronics, live-looping
Matt Deason - horizontal bass, electronics, live-looping
"Indigenous music from the Pleiades"
"A seamless journey through uncountable phases and facets of breathtaking intensity"
Peter Breslin
2005 - OUT OF CONTEXT PLAYS 1" = 25 MILES - (burning books/highmayhem)
story collection written by Sumner Carnahan
J.A. Deane conducts the Out of Context ensemble
"Rich and Luminous"
"The work is suffused with an authentic freshness and lyricism"
"The texts themselves are rarely in the foreground, their imagery works into the music at a deeper level"
"Deane's handling of the ensemble is nothing short of masterly"
Paristransatlantic
2002 - HEX - (zerx 044)
J.A. Deane - acoustic & electric trombones, bass-flute,
shakuhachi, bass drum, sampler, live-sampling
Myra Melford - pianos
Joseph Sabella - drums
"If a recording is to be judged by how well it bears repeated listening, then HEX is a gem"
"The dizzying sound world Deane creates envelops the players within it"
"His gift is electronics and his sound creation steals the show"
"Deane is working the big picture here"
Signal to Noise
2001 - NEVER NEVER LAND - (zerx 032)
J.A. Deane conducts the Out of Context ensemble - playing the 1932 film Peter Pan
"The entire recording is a wondrous musical experience"
"The music flies on high with lightness and fragility,
spiraling upward in intensity to match the magical scenarios of the film"
"An airy and delicious blending of sounds that captures the lightness of the flying scenes
and the dense drama of the unfolding tale we all loved as children"
Cadence
2000 - GRAND CROSS ECLIPSE - (zerx 024)
J.A. Deane - trombone, electronics, standing waves, bass-flute
Al Faaet - drums, framedrum, percussion
"Vast and mind-blowing"
"As immense and at times as intimidating as the desert landscape"
"Music as epic as this should be blasted on a speaker system surrounded
by two billion year old rocks at the bottom of the Grand Canyon"
Paristransatlantic
2000 - THESE TIMES - (zerx 028)
Live at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston '88
J.A. Deane trombone/electronics, multiple drum machines
Bill Frisell - electric guitar
Terry Rolleri - electric guitar
"This recording demonstrates how strong Deane's music-making concepts really are"
Jazzweekly
1995 - NOMAD - (Les Disques VICTO - 035)
J.A. Deane - trombone, bass-flute, lapsteel guitar, percussion, sampler
"Deane mixes unlike sonic textures together in a way that gives life to something entirely different
something you've never heard before"
Vanishing Point
