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Jason Hoopes

About Me



1. Musician
2. Artist
3. Pagan
4. Writer
5. Anarchist
6. Zen
7. Student
8. Teacher
9. All of the above
0. None of the above

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The Atomic Bomb Audition

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/11/2006
Band Website: bayimproviser.com/jasonhoopes
Band Members: www.thebowinguniverse.blogspot.com
Influences:

...and...

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Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness.
All can know good as good only because there is evil.

Therefore having and not having arise together.
Difficult and easy compliment each other.
Long and short contrast each other.
High and low rest upon each other.
Voice and sound harmonize each other.
Front and back follow one another.

Therefore the sage goes about doing nothing, teaching no-talking.
The ten thousand things rise and fall without cease,
Creating, yet not possessing,
Working, yet not taking credit.
Work is done, then forgotten.
Therefore it lasts forever.
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Sounds Like:In Progress

- untitled one [piano, voice]

2009

- Music for Films that don't Exist: 25 Dolls [drums, voices, piano, sax, horn, cello]

- six lullabies of varying degrees of emotion by which to put your pretentions to bed
[piano, electric guitars, sax, trumpet, flutes, celeste, melodica, voices, bass]

- Speak for dance by Sophia Leiby [wineglasses, percussion, bass, piano, voice]

2008

- Cycles v.1
[any pitched instrumentation]

- Cycles v.2
[any pitched instrumentation]

- November Piece: The 12 Intentions
[any instrumentation]

- October Pieces [Piano, Cello, Dance]

-Released album Light Will Remain with The Atomic Bomb Audition

- Trio 1
[Harp, Bassoon, Cello]

- the ebb [Strings, Gamelan, Percussion, Voices, Electric Guitars]

2007

- Quest for Knowledge -
[2 minutes for 5 found objects (recorded music/lock/stick/flyer/sheet music)]

- Man - [guitar/voice/drums]

- Murderous Singer - [piano and amplified throat] w/Kiyomitsu Odai

- Pentasong -
[tonal chart for improvisation ensemble]

- A Crushed and Broken Sun -(metal album)

- Piano Improvisations 4/6/07 – [piano]

- Founding 8 – [alto flute/bass clarinet/horn/tam-tam/violin/viola/cello/bass]

- Music for Dance - Clear Abyss (choreography: Jan Jennings) – [piano, violin, percussion]

- A Winter’s Solstice – [3 percussionists – amplified water sounds, bubble wrap, glockenspiel, crotales, triangles]

2006

- How The Peasants Must Have Cursed Both Armies! –
[electric guitar improvisation]

- Live Noise @ Midnight – [Reaktor, ARP synthesizer (Travis Johns)]

- Electronic Music 1 – [electronic compositions]

- Participated in improvisation workshops/classes/lessons/concerts with Joelle Leandre, Fred Frith and Maggie Nicols. - [Double bass, voice]

- For Carly:
I. it’s ok to color outside the lines
II. not supposed to write you a letter so i won’t
III. naming
[piano, bass clarinet, cello, violin, 2 female vocalists]

- Founding 6 – [voice, electric guitar, trombone, 3 percussionists]

- Moon Over Japan (arr. for woodwind octet) – [Flute / Oboe / 2 Bb Clarinets / 2 Tenor Saxophones / Bassoon / Bass Clarinet]

- Anything But Fantasy Please – [clarinet, bass clarinet, French horn, percussion, piano, 6 female vocalists, cello, double bass]

2005

- Released Album Far and Away with ALIAS REAL – Rock Music
[Bass, Guitars, Synths, Flutes, Drums, Vocals]

- The Unexpected Season – [Piano]

- Moon Over Japan – [SATB Choir]

- In a Cell with Baudelaire and Huysmans – [5 8ve Marimba / Vibes / Tympani / Gongs / Cymbals]

[For HOST*, a six-member ensemble (Flute/Clarinet, Trumpet, Saxophone, Electric 7-string Guitar, Piano/Voice, Cello)]
- Podium [Song form; improvisatory elements; drone dominant]
- Arms Around Me [drone with chromatic melody]
- Leave Your Blood Here and Go Home [Short, fast, polyrhythmic, ostinato study]
- Face the Pulpit [12-tone melody with row-derived chordal structure underneath]
- Chronological Occurrence in Time: Chapter One – Spacesuit [composed with chance operations; aleatoric; spoken word]
- Frozen Pre-Dawn December Stillness [Improvisation guide; text, symbols]
* HOST is primarily an improvisation group.

2004

- @ the speed of tree –
[Drone - Arr. for Electronics]

- Dialogue for Bass Clarinet and Field Recording

- for dead Iraqi man on face of NYT –
[Soprano, Tenor, Piano, Cello, Field Drum, Low Tom]

- Movement in 5 Pieces – [SATB Choir, Secondary Choir, Percussion Ensemble]
a) Non Serviam
b) Perduta Gente
c) *Distance
d) Get Out of Whatever Cage You're In
e) X

- Released Album Found Sound with SIZEMIX - Down-Tempo Electronic Trio
[Bass, Guitar, Turntables] www.sizemix.net

2003

- a strange room, no a child, no a strange room –
[Grand Piano Strings, Voice]

- the – [Tenor Sax, Bb Clarinet]

- Smells Like a Dead Crow – [Synthesizer w/FX, Electric Guitar w/FX]

* [Distance - composed as third movement in Movement in 5 Pieces.]

- Multiple Sessions with CABLE –
[Voice, Piano, Misc, MAX/MSP]

- Multiple Sessions with WARP MODULE.

2002

- Music for Romeo and Juliet as performed by Mountain Actors' Workshop -
[Electronic]

2001

- State of the Union –
[Piano]

- Music for Macbeth as performed by Mountain Actors' Workshop – [Electronic]

1999 / 2000

- Released En Route with Ed Macan’s HERMETIC SCIENCE
[Piano, Synths, Mallet Instruments, Bass, Sitar, Electric Guitar, Drums]
Co-Composer on Against the Grain Part 1 and Part 3.
www.hermeticscience.com
Record Label: Musea (Hermetic Science)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

First Revelation of a New Era

God is LoveThis is backwardsLove is God
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 13:03:00 GMT

New Review of The Atomic Bomb Audition’s "Light Will Remain"!!!

The Atomic Bomb Audition have our new review of "Light Will Remain" - found here:http://www.cerebralmetalhead.com/2008/12/chainmail-atom ic-bomb-audition-light.html
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:11:00 GMT

The First Review of The Atomic Bomb Audition’s "Light Will Remain"

Sagenhaftes Cover, sagenhafte musikalische Untermalung von Emotionen.OAKLAND, California.The Atomic Bomb Audition spielen Musik auf einem sehr hohem Niveau. Genau der richtige Sound um auf der Couch z...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:16:00 GMT

"Light Will Remain" is officially available!!!

The new album from The Atomic Bomb Audition is here!!! The entire album is currently streaming on our website for free where it is also available for purchase, as it is also through myspace.
Posted by on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:03:00 GMT

People Who Hunger and Thirst for Truth

People Who Hunger and Thirst for Truth:By: GurdjeffI have already said that there are people who hunger and thirst for truth. If they examine the problems of life and are sincere with themselves, they...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:05:00 GMT

Reclaiming the Music

An Excerpt from the Introduction to John Stevens' Search and Reflect: Intro written by Christopher Small What is it that makes a musician important? Is it in the creation of compositions for perfo...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:47:00 GMT

Obedience

The master Bankei's talks were attended not only by Zen students but by persons of all ranks and sects. He never quoted sutras not indulged in scholastic dissertations. Instead, his words were spoken ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:18:00 GMT

The Atomic Bomb Audition SF Guardian Review

A recent review in the Guardian about The Atomic Bomb Audition's new cd Eleven Theaters. Though I didn't have anything to do with the making of this album, I just had my first gig with them as bassist...
Posted by on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:35:00 GMT

John Cage and Anarchism

How to Make Matters Worse...(You'll Only Improve the World)The Clarification of (the) Anarchism (of) ((for)) (((through))) John CageJason HoopesMills CollegeOakland, CA20071.What is Anarchy?"I'm an an...
Posted by on Mon, 14 May 2007 09:45:00 GMT

Thoughts on Music

Is there a difference between emotionality in Schoenberg (romantics) and Cage (post-modernists)? Does a change in the process of dealing with emotionality change the emotional content. Cage's Music Of...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:43:00 GMT