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Dan West

About Me

I am a guitarist, composer and electronic artist based in Melbourne, Australia. Since graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1995, I have been dedicated to playing original music with a wide variety of artists fusing organic and processed sound.

In 1999, I was included as part of the Emerging Artists Initiative Grant awarded to Adrian Jackson from the Australia Council for the Arts. In March 2000, I received a Development Grant from the Australia Council to study composition and improvisation techniques in New York City with contemporary guitarist and composer Wayne Krantz.

I run music and arts mentoring programs for youth at the Arts Centre in Melbourne and I teach beat production and guitar at Sydney Road Community School in Brunswick.

I am also part of a core group of artists that run OUTPOST , an audio/video jam session for laptop artists which takes place on the last Wednesday of the month at Bar Open.

I have a studio in a 20ft shipping container where I work, check it out at http://tweakandtwang.org


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 23/10/2006
Band Website: tweakandtwang.org
Band Members: Self

1967 Gibson ES-335

Yamaha CS-5

Yamaha CS-01

Wav Ruta

Roland JX-3P

Roland Juno-60

AKAI mpc 1000

MacBook Pro

Ableton Live

Akai APC 40

Various effects pedals
Influences: CURRENT INTERNAL: Motley, Ptero_Stylus, Winterpark, BJ Scullin, Dig Deep Crew, Sylent Running, Hailey Cramer

CURRENT EXTERNAL: Rustie, Alva Noto, Oh No, Major Lazer

FILMS: Moon, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job
Sounds Like:
Container Studio

http://tweakandtwang.org

OUTPOST a/v jam session for laptop artists

http://shareoutpost.org


Record Label: the Interweb
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Part One: The First

Hey folks,so I finally got myself together and set up a myspace site for posting some of the solo tracks I am doing and other general jibber jabber on life.All is cool in Danland, we finally got some ...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:13:00 GMT