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Work In Progress

Electro Ambient Jazz For Contemporary Dance

About Me

Stretch And Breathe Two/Berlin Dance Works. New music for the contemporary dance class. A distillation of the various ways I have improvised music for movement since 1980. *****************Below are dress rehearsal shots from a Marie Alonso piece I scored:I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/3/2007
Band Website: GeoffreyArmes.com/ga
Band Members: Geoffrey Armes -- bass, guitars, keys, percussion, programming, vocals.Helen Hansen -- dance guidance
Influences: Electro Ambient Jazz For Contemporary Dance.Geoffrey Armes/Helen Hansen
Sounds Like: I've worked -- performed/accompanied/composed -- London Contemporary Dance, CBGBs, Fred Schneider, Eurythmics, Bernie Worrell, Juilliard School, Danceworks Berlin, Martha Graham School, Merce Cunningham Studio, MIke Turtle, Veleroy Rab Spall, Frankie Knuckles, Rab Spall, NYU, Koeln Tanzforum/Sommer Akademie, Die Etage, Risiko, The Bitter End, Tokyo, Osaka, Paul Taylor, Laban Centre, Beydi Fall Senegal, Pascal Rioult, Alvin Ailey, Neighborhood Playhouse, Tom Desisto, Rambert Academy, etc etc..
Record Label: Ha! New Music For Dance Class Coming Soon!
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Yes I was there

This blog is hyperlinked at www.geoffreyarmes.com/gaI read the book. This article feels about right. Bowie in BerlinBoth the bit about traveling from your bedroom, and the feel in Berlin. It all added...
Posted by Work In Progress on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:24:00 PST

Early Morning Rain

In the Early Morning Rain after Two Hours of Sleep · 1 day agoAt some point in its history, the idea of entertainment lost its sense of mutuality, of exchange. One either entertains or is entertained,...
Posted by Work In Progress on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:23:00 PST

As I wrote during the recording of this upcoming

Berlin DanceworksStretch and Breathe TwoElectro Ambient Jazz For Contemporary DancePlayed by Geoffrey Armes.Dance Guidance by Helen Hansen.Mastered by Tom Desisto.seeking to preserve the improvisation...
Posted by Work In Progress on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:40:00 PST

geoffreyarmes.com/ga is the place to read this with pictures and links

Critiques? In my life they say:love your voiceever thought of getting a singer(I am very glad to get the reaction)love you on pianowhy don't you get on electric guitar and punk out50 mins is not enoug...
Posted by Work In Progress on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:00:00 PST

Over a few days from the other site

Quickly · 1 hour agoworking now, on Dance Works, seeking to preserve the improvisational aspects of how I play live for this stuff, yet layer, orchestrate, arrange& consequentially takes are going dow...
Posted by Work In Progress on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 07:18:00 PST

Explanatory Notes

Current tracks here are sketches and explorations for a CD of Music for Modern Dance teachers. Recording to be finished by November this year. Look at http://www.GeoffreyArmes.com for other, final pr...
Posted by Work In Progress on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:51:00 PST

Sub Bass Chair

I just returned from a gig with the Kathy Fleischmann band, substituting on bass.As I posted on the Long Island Music Scene list:I just got back from playing this gig (as the aforementioned substitute...
Posted by Work In Progress on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:18:00 PST

First Review

and it's an interesting one. Here is Dan Hermann of Radio Crystal Blue writing about Anima 91:::::::"Geoffrey's newest CD, "Anima 91" contain songs and instrumentals he recorded in the 1990's. Geoffre...
Posted by Work In Progress on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:42:00 PST

Traversations

Traversations is a neologism coined by Marie Alonzo Snyder, to entitle her new work that skirts conversation, revelation, migration, multi-cultural identity and acculturation via four dancers of diver...
Posted by Work In Progress on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:52:00 PST

New LP disk release

Anima 91 · The tracks are mastered, and available for free download  straight into your ipod for example  at lastfm.com This is the 'advance' release, as the project now awaits artwork and so forth....
Posted by Work In Progress on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:59:00 PST