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LIGO

Oh, unfathomable source of ten thousand things!

About Me

LIGO is the solo project of Dani Seiss. Moody expressions of effected vocals, flute, synths, guitars, bass, drums, cello, marimba and glockenspiel, LIGO spans a range of musical experimentation that stretches from ambient to shoegaze to electro/acoustic dark folk. As a seven-piece band, LIGO incorporates guitar, bass, cello, violin, banjo, accordion, synths, vocals, flute, glockenspiel, drums and aux percussion.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/3/2007
Band Members: Recordings by Dani Seiss flying solo. Live band: Dani Seiss (guitar, flute, vocals, cello), Curt Seiss (guitar, banjo, accordion, glockenspiel, percussion, vocals), Kristen Trevey (violin, vocals), Jessica Hallock (cello, vocals), Israel Forrest Slick (synths, banjo, glockenspiel, percussion), Jason Murphy (bass), Jeff Birdsall (drums).
Influences: Stereolab, Gravenhurst, Low, Broadcast, Air, Shogun Kunitoki, Shellac, Boards of Canada, Movietone, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Biosphere, Pan Sonic, Matmos, Tortoise, Sulfur, Seefeel, Mum, Sami, Salvatore, Pelt, Iron and Wine, The Album Leaf, Tristeza, Amanset, Sigur Ros, Ween, They Might Be Giants, My Bloody Valentine, Slow Dive, Curve, Miranda Sex Garden, Shudder to Think, Lush, Dead Can Dance, Sonic Youth, the Pixies, the Beatles, Doves, Do Make Say Think, Radiohead, Siouxsie Sioux, the Cure, Joy Division, Oregon, the Decemberists, Erik Satie, Wendy Carlos, Syd Barrett, Johnny Cash, Sun Ra, Ray Lynch, David Toop, Kronos Quartet, Seiss, Greenie2600, Aaron Lennox. Other than music, mostly... Fresh air. The sea. Moss. Trees. Wind through pines. Long runs along the river. Climbing. Kind people. Amazing visual art. Obscure films. Exotic fruit. Good Design. Architecture. Dreams. The aether.
Sounds Like: Organic white noise.
Record Label: Magnanimous Records www.magnanimous.org
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

More Precious than Oil

   Woke up thirsty today and realized, I'd been dreaming about water. I've been drinking a lot of it these days. Nothing like a good run to make you appriciate good water. We have well ...
Posted by LIGO on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:57:00 PST

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Lots of things to contemplate as of late: Mostly morbid stuff for me; death spanning from the actual to the metaphor. The incredible devastation in China. The sudden exit of the beloved Tim Russert o...
Posted by LIGO on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:27:00 PST

Help for Dog and his family

Please help!!!! ...From the Magnanimous posting: Help needed for friends - please read (and then do something--even a little help can go a long way) http://dogaide.chipin.com/dog-aideFollow this link ...
Posted by LIGO on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:17:00 PST

Metro Gallery Show

Just wanted to give a warm thank you and hearty shout out to all who made last night's show a success. Thank you much, Dylan Kinnett, events master of the evening, grand party wizard and poet extraor...
Posted by LIGO on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:30:00 PST

lyrics to Twilight House

The light around your doorsaid "do not disturb"so I stayed away never knowing why I didn't go, I lingered sooutside the doorthough I can't remember nowwas it mine or was it yours?This door, this death...
Posted by LIGO on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:20:00 PST

Onion link

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/pitchfork_gives_music_6 _8
Posted by LIGO on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:37:00 PST

Shameless promotion of the magazine where I work.

"Music not only can capture the soul, it can also save it."Here's a link to a story that we published this past Sunday about a guitar maker who lost his hearing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/c...
Posted by LIGO on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:30:00 PST

Growing the Sound/s--updated

Curt and I played LIGO's first official show last night at The Red and the Black in DC. Up until recently it's been solely a recording project for me, and it was fun to attempt it live.  A heart...
Posted by LIGO on Thu, 31 May 2007 03:10:00 PST

Saving Tigers

A friend of mine works for the World Wildlife Fund. She sent me this, and I thought I'd share it with you all in case you're interested: "China is considering repealing a 14-year ban on killing tiger...
Posted by LIGO on Wed, 30 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

Harmonic Bridge

anybody been there/experienced this? http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=150  
Posted by LIGO on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:46:00 PST