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Kurt Doles

Kurt Doles

About Me


Jackson Pollock - Hans Namuth 1951; music by Morton Feldman

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/17/2006
Band Website: coldbluemusic.com
Influences: Harold Budd, Brian Eno, John Cale, Robert Fripp, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Gavin Bryars, Tom Waits, Somei Satoh, Labradford, Lou Reed, De Kooning, Kraftwerk, Holger Czukay, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Jon Hassell, Faust, Daniel Lentz, Johnny Cash, Pharoah Sanders, Ingram Marshall, Paul Dresher, Hunter Thompson, Cluster, Gerhard Richter, John Cage, Jon Wayne, Carl Stone, Michael Rother, Robert Ashley, Jim Fox, Peter Garland, Sal Martirano, John Zorn, Daniel Lanois, John Lydon, Terry Riley, Erik Satie, Chas Smith, Rick Cox, Laurie Anderson, Pollock, Bill Frisell, Rothko, Bukowski, David Bedford, Arvo Part, William Burroughs, La Monte Young, Godspeed, Biosphere, J.L. Adams, Vic Bergeron, Rick Cox, Anthony Braxton, George Jones, Steve Reich, Toru Takemitsu, Lou Harrison, Colin McPhee, David Lang, Robert Moran, Negativland...
Record Label: Cold Blue, formerly on Suilven
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

look on my crap, ye mighty...

I met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. Near them on the sand,Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frownAnd wrinkled lip and sneer...
Posted by Kurt Doles on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:28:00 PST

amazing scientific breakthrough!

Geez, it's been a while since my last post... Not much to say, other than pieces in my mind are much more real than pieces on paper........... Was updating (composition) resume for a friend's project,...
Posted by Kurt Doles on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:47:00 PST

R.I.P. Tonic NYC - 1998-2007

Tonic shut its doors for the last time early Saturday morning, another victim of New York's urban gentrification, not unlike the fate of CBGB's. But unlike CBGB's, which all but became a corporate bra...
Posted by Kurt Doles on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:13:00 PST

Pencil + Paper +/- Liquor = Art

Discuss!    
Posted by Kurt Doles on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:20:00 PST

"LOOK UPON ME! I'LL SHOW YOU THE LIFE OF THE MIND!!!!"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There. I feel much better now.    ...
Posted by Kurt Doles on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:35:00 PST

tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis

"Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"        &nb sp;         &nb sp;       &...
Posted by Kurt Doles on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:00:00 PST

YouTube

You might notice that I replaced the YouTube video of David Borden on my front page with something just as rare and wonderful - an old (OLD!) performance on German TV by the original (3/4, anyway) lin...
Posted by Kurt Doles on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:02:00 PST

I think I've accepted Kyle Gann as my personal savior....

Excerpted from Kyle Gann's blog at www.artsjournal.com/postclassic, re: a concert by an ensemble of open instrumentation that he directs (my emphasis added)  "I'm also very proud that t...
Posted by Kurt Doles on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:14:00 PST

AND THEN MY MIND SPLIT OPEN....!!!!!

Grantwriting grantwriting grantwriting grantwriting grantwriting. Ack. This is me, in my office, waiting for FAXes and letters of support to arrive for a grant that's due in NYC on FRIGGIN' FRIDAY. ...
Posted by Kurt Doles on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:46:00 PST

"hey, aren't you a musician or something?"

yet another non-music related post...just...don't ask....really.... "Kids--here's the greatest, the neatest, the latest thing! 5000-piece Fightin' Men 'N Monster Set! (some pieces not included) Astoni...
Posted by Kurt Doles on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:56:00 PST