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Maesyn

Holy Cheese & Blessed Sneeze Music

About Me


After only a moment of discussion and debate, a new genre has been proclaimed, -- "Gypsy-Love-Funk!" (exclamation point included).
Within and without the boundaries of the regulations of this categorization, Maesyn wanders merrily along with her new album, "We are Now.here!"
Third person-ally speaking, Maesyn has been classically trained on violin since she was 3 and a half. After trying to quit the instrument daily for 15 years, she fell madly in love, after being pleasantly bopped on the head by a sudden life influx of jamming, jazz, blues and celtic gypsy fiddling.
On stage, Maesyn dances like a wild banshee, contorting limbs and various appendages into exact rhythmic punctuations. She "paints and pets the rhythm as it cavorts through the air."
Maesyn grew up in a household of musicians, playing in the family band. She played violin in baroque ensemble and orchestra. Her father was a folk musician, and as a young child she'd jump on stage with his band. She always felt most at home on the stage and in the musical womb.
In a formative environment of road tripping harmonies, Maesyn found singing background to be far more fun than singing lead. This became her take on violin as well, as Muddy enjoys creating rhythmic textures far more than soloing.
Maesyn spent many years singing acapella to scratch the harmonic addictive itch, and meanwhile developed a knack for vocal percussion. In certain forests and the occasional airport lobby, Maesyn is notorious for her perpetual , wickedlly dexterous whistle.
A childhood bookworm, she now applies her love of verbiage to her expansive, gritty-sweet voice, and melts her violin, Muddy, into the whirlwind. Jubilant spontanaiety makes her a firecracker of heart-tickling exuberance on stage.
She carries Muddy on her back nearly everywhere she goes - both because they are inseparable friends, and in the event of a spontanious jam.
The music incorporates delightful quirky elements such as a beatboxing digeridoo, a kazoo choir, 8 part whistling choruses, breath oceans, and a percussive floss solo.
While recording the album she composed all of the orchestration on the fly, in what she called "spontanious orchestration." Letting one line settle in, then immediately layering the next thing that intuitively poured out. Combustive layering - creating a spontanious improvisational feel to the music's ebbs and flows...
Maesyn's favorite pastime is a random jam. She sings, writes, whistles, percusses, plays violin, guitar, and a wee bit of piano. She can be found wandering around the country, playing music and having a jolly good time at it.
She very much loves living. MUSIC IS LIFE. And so it is.
____________________________________________________________ ____________________ "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never again regains its original shape" - Oliver WEndell HOlmes ************************************************************ ******************* "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars " - Jack Kerouac. ************************************************************ ****
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/10/2005
Band Website: under construction! :) check back soon!
Band Members: MAESYN: Violin, Vocals, Kazoo, Whistling, Wood Block, assorted percussive breath oceans and random noises, Lyrics, Music

THE JON BERKOWITZ: Guitar, music, brilliant arrangements, life saving (ER doctor extraordinaire). Jamming, Co-writing.

Various brilliant musicians. Depending on the day, including (on the album) Jazz Giants:
DRUMS: Gene "The Genious" Coy
BASS: Steven Bruner, Eric Sittner, Edwin Livingston, Rob McDonald
GUITAR: Jon Berkowitz, Curtis Falzoi
KEYS: David Garner
PERCUSSION: Joey DeLeon, Reid DeFevre
Influences:
Life.

The Beatles.
Bob Dylan.
Paul Simon.
Sounds Like: Everyone. No one. GYPSY-LOVE-FUNK!!!!
Record Label: People's Party Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Wagging Tongues, Tales, etc

We two tongues are wagging, waving, rolling 'round our whirling wheelsFeast of fear we see thee eating snacks between thy meals.Jump and we become the gap where the earth meets the sky.It's a hearty h...
Posted by Maesyn on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:17:00 PST

Video for Walk You!

hey kiddo catsI've just finished the first cut of my first video! Walk You.Hooray!I'm tweaking it a smidge, and then we'll convert it to a compressed format. But for now, it's in high def, so you can...
Posted by Maesyn on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:07:00 PST

Riddling Joy

Riddling JoyO mental masturbation, harness it for dream inflation.Pure truth, manifestation is surrender to elation.One with love is consecration, merging with our self salvation.Infinite creation sta...
Posted by Maesyn on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:55:00 PST

The unbinding glue of Achoo!

The unbinding Glue of AchooArrowing beaming raysDirect from quiver to target...You beckon, I staggeryou shiver, I daggermy stemming shoot deep into the gold of your bonded root.(we watch each other, s...
Posted by Maesyn on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:39:00 PST

livers, kidneys, spleens and YES!

Just wrote this as a post on SoCal Musician's page, and wanted to share it here, because it encapsulates how I feel about every single person who has ever emailed me, hugged me, read a blog, or taken ...
Posted by Maesyn on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:17:00 PST

Ocean Osmosis

Cool fever. Feed me.I have no hunger...1..You are the oceanI am osmosis.You draw the depths of meon the skin of my dilated pupil...2..There I am perching, flooding, immersingmy infinite into your ocea...
Posted by Maesyn on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:43:00 PST

Unpeeling Pan

I am silent, I amblinking, I am floatingI am sinkingI am violet, I amwinking, I am moatingI am drinking.Gulp gulp gulp,swallow the sprouting seedgulp gulp gulpfloat like feathers and reedsthe lasso of...
Posted by Maesyn on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 02:41:00 PST

Artist of the Month article in SoCal Musician

SoCal Musician proudly presents:MAESYNSoCal Musician Artist of the Month - NovemberGenre: Blues/Jazz/Funk Location: Venice Beach, CAWritten by: Matt Johnson, SoCal Writing DepartmentGlowing with the k...
Posted by Maesyn on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:26:00 PST

flow

I comeI goI go with the flowAnd when I don't...She lets me knowWhat gifts, those little messages.Nudges to close one door so another can open,lovenote courtesy of, and brought to you by the ladies of ...
Posted by Maesyn on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:38:00 PST

murmuring muses, morphing mayhem!

Once again, it is 5 AM, and I am just starting to yawn.We worked in the studio tonight until 3 AM. Yeah, deadline lighting a fire under our respective bums!After some lethargy, Muse knocked on my lone...
Posted by Maesyn on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:19:00 PST