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Darlingtonia

Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana

About Me

Orignally from Eugene, Oregon, Aniela Perry has been an active performer and teacher in the Los Angeles area for the past six years. Her incredibly diverse musical background has made her a tremendous asset to a great variety of projects. In addition to being a classically trained cellist, she has an extensive background in improvised styles, string bass, bass guitar and vocal work.
In June of 2005, Aniela participated in the Banff Centre's Summer Arts Festival in Alberta, Canada with her ensemble Enthauptung, which was formed by the composer David Rosenboom. The members of Enthauptung were handpicked to premiere his chamber opera Naked Curvature. At the Banff festival they were coached by cellist Lawrence Lesser and gave performances of Enchanted Preludes by Elliott Carter, L'histoire du Soldat by Stravinsky and a highly successful, un-conducted performance of Schoenberg's masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire. In 2005 Enthauptung was chosen by composer Anne LeBaron to perform the music for her new opera Wet, where Aniela showed off her doubling skills on cello and string bass.
Aniela has worked closely with other contemporary composers such as Gavin Bryars, Vinny Golia, Jim Fox, Pauline Oliveros, David Ozab, James Tenney, and John Zorn. In October 2005 Ms. Perry performed in RedCat's sold out concert, Cellos, at the Disney Concert Hall, where she was the soloist in Messagesquisse by Pierre Boulez.
Feeling the need to return to her rock roots, Aniela very eagerly accepted the offer to tour with the band Cursive. During this time, an ambitious attempt to play musical Twister will take place when she participates in a master classe of legendary new-music cellist Rohan de Saram and performs a long overdue solo cello concert in Los Angeles in the fall. Every summer, 2006 being no exception, Aniela volunteers to teach bass and coach bands at Portland, Oregon's Rock and Roll Camp for Girls. Every year this proves to be an eye-opening and deeply fulfilling experience for Ms. Perry and she hopes she will be able to spend her future summer vacations there.
In addition to her broad and varied performance experiences, Aniela dabbles a bit with composition/arranging and various experiments with things that sound nice to her. She calls this project Darlingtonia . Not "darling" + "tonia" which sounds kind of trailer-park, but rather the carniverous pitcher plant indigenous to an area of Oregon she is fond of.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/26/2004
Band Members: Aniela Perry: Celli, basses, guitars, rhodes, synth, marimba, vocals, toy and ancient percussive gadgets, programming. But mostly cello and bass...
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My Blog

I play cello n' stuff

Hi guys, Writing this while on tour with Sea Wolf from a hotel in New Jersey. Hooray for free internets! Anyway, the tour has been a lot of fun. Today we watched our good friends and label mates Silve...
Posted by Darlingtonia on Thu, 17 May 2007 09:23:00 PST

Bored with myspace

 I didn't die or anything, I'm just really not interested in posting blogs/updating my shows/music lately. I've been delightfully busy. I'm at SXSW in Austin right now with my old friends Sea Wol...
Posted by Darlingtonia on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:04:00 PST

Hair Model!

The salon I go to in Santa Monica used a photo of my last haircut for their website. It's pretty neat! Too bad touring made it impossible to keep up that style http://www.haircafe.net/Photos1/Photopa...
Posted by Darlingtonia on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:03:00 PST

Awkward Girl

I like this film reviewer. Sure he misspells things and is pretty crass, but I agree with him pretty much all of the time and well, I like his potty mouth. Anyway, here is his review of Science of Sle...
Posted by Darlingtonia on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:14:00 PST

WAH

It's the last day of this leg of the Cursive tour and I think I picked something up in St. Louis. I feel extremely crappy, sore throat, body and nauseous. Looks like I'll be chilling out in Santa Moni...
Posted by Darlingtonia on Sun, 08 Oct 2006 02:39:00 PST

Excited!

I am very excited about this. Story, director, composer.. omg
Posted by Darlingtonia on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:15:00 PST

Live footage from Lollapalooza is up!

At http://blueroom.att.com you can find footage from various Lollapalooza performances, including two songs from Cursive's set. Or click here....
Posted by Darlingtonia on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:45:00 PST

Salzburg..

.. is very pretty where I am. At the FM4 Frequency festival, we played around 2:20 which was odd because in my mind it was very early in the morning. After we played I went back to the bus and crashed...
Posted by Darlingtonia on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 01:12:00 PST

Hehe

http://www.wondermark.com/d/220.html
Posted by Darlingtonia on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:36:00 PST

Stop fake clinics from false advertising

Dear Friend,The anti-choice movement has a stealth strategy for blockingwomen's access to abortion care. Known as "crisis pregnancycenters" (CPCs), many of these anti-choice, fake "clinics"mislead wom...
Posted by Darlingtonia on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:58:00 PST