Member Since: 28/02/2007
Band Website: http://www.danielharrismusic.com
Band Members: Dan Harris
Clarinets, Saxophones, Synth Programming, MAX/MSP/Jitter. Video interfaces, transducers. Specializes in solo performances with interactive electronics. Has worked with Michel Redolfi designing and building underwater instruments, audio mixers, etc for Michel Redolfi's underwater concerts. Has composed operas, chamber music, concertos, band and orchestra music.Plays in several acoustic improvisational ensembles, Trio Rare (piano, vibes, bass clarinet), Vibrone (vibes & bass clarinet), Tango Band, Navigation and various casual ensembles.
Influences: Performers:
Stanley Hasty, Keith Wilson, Leonard Bernstein, Harold Wright, John Coltrane, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Theolonius Monk, Sonny Rollins, Phil Woods, Gerry Mulligan,Pat MartinoComposers:
Carlo Gesualdo, Charles Ives, Harry Partch, Morton Feldman, Edgar Varese, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Eric Dolphy, Frank Zappa, Luc Ferrari, Mel Powel, Hall Overton, Sal Maritrano, Al FineAuthors:
Homer, Dante Alighieri, Beowulf, Shakespeare, Goethe, Vladimir Nabokov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, William Gaddis, Lawrence Durrell, Italo Calvino, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Evan S. Connell, Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Georges Perec, William S. BurroughsArtists:
Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Chuck Close, Christo, J.M.W. Turner, Alberto Giacometti, Matisse, Picasso, Cezanne, Chiam Sourtine, De Kooning, Dubuffet, Arshile GorkyFriends & Colleagues:
Les Thimmig, Richard Stoltzman, Tom McKinley, Michel Redolfi, Patricio Villarroell, Alex Grillo, Michel Pascal, Michael Lowenstern, Henri BokAnd:
Maureen Mulvihill-Beatrice mia, our pastel tiger Kid Stretch, and my father, a paragon.
Sounds Like: Avant-garde experimental improvisational music with sophisticated structures and electronic interactions
Record Label: Ben Clarone Music-Coterie Editions
Type of Label: Indie