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About Me

"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand." - Woody Allen
"Why, man, did I get born? To do precious valuable Love Music, man, you remember." -Horse Badorties
Celer is the sound, visual, literary, and artistic endeavor of the husband and wife duo of Will Thomas Long and Danielle Baquet-Long. Danielle is a teacher of special education and music therapy, a seasoned and published writer of poetry and prose, a painter, multi-instrumentalist, and vocalist, also recording as Chubby Wolf. She has an extensive background in Gender Studies, Education, Basque History, Photography, and Tibetan Studies, as well as having lived in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the United States. Will also works in education, and is a published writer of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, with extensive backgrounds of study in English and History, Creative Writing, Philosophy, and Literature. He is also an instrumentalist, interested in finding the beauty and emotion of sound, though a meeting place in music between the analog and digital world, through field recordings, custom software, arrangements, and concepts. In Will and Dani's time together, they have produced numerous custom, handmade self-releases, sound for installations and art exhibitions, as well as creating works for independent labels in North America, Japan, and Europe. Their intent is to produce works that reflect the nature of love, family, and their concerns and interests, through a relative and absolute symposium of expression. They currently reside on the coast of Southern California.
Floor Sugar / A New Store:
Video by Johnny Utterback

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/6/2006
Band Website: artificialcolors.blogspot.com/
Band Members: Will and Dani
Influences: George Gershwin, Anais Nin, Gene Kelly, Jackson Pollock, Christian Marclay, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Carol Reed, Jerzy Kosinski, Howard Shore, Vladimir Nabakov, Gavin Bryars, John Cassavettes, Van gelis, Charles Bukowski, Irving Berlin, Samuel Barber, mondii, Ludwig Beethoven, VÃg Mihaly, Bernard Hermann, Milan Kundera, Erik Satie, Akira Kurosawa, Brian Eno, John Cage, Jerome Kern, Richard Wagner, Ravel, Bryn Jones, Barnett Newman, Thomas Pynchon, Mark Tobey, Peter Baumann, Frank Stella, Minoru Sato, Devin Sarno, Edgar and Jerome Froese, Peter Kember, Chopin, Steve Reich, Tetsu Inoue, Tod Dockstader, Mark Spybey, Kiyoshi Mizutani, Mark Fell, Mat Steel, Colin Potter, Harold Budd, Raymond Scott, Salvador Dali, Edgar Varese, Toshiya Tsunoda, Steve Peters, George Delerue, Arnold Schoenberg, Elmer Bernstein, Antonin Dvorak, Bela Tarr, Ennio Morricone, Arvo Part, Anton Karas, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Carl Neilsen, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Thomas Koner, Wendy Carlos, Clint Eastwood, Wolfgang Voight, Morton Feldman, Bela Bartok, Yasujiro Ozu, Maeror Tri, Jonathan Coleclough, Alexandre Desplat, Christian Renou, Kenneth Patchen, antique materials and mediums: Olympia De Luxe typewriter, Henry Kotswinkle, Italo Calvino, Sylvia Plath, Elaine Radigue
Sounds Like:

Current Works Cited

Celer - 'Stilettos At Sunrise' VA "Sounds of Slow Flow Vol.1" (CDR, SFR001) Celer - Nacreous Clouds (1xCD, and/33)
Celer - The Everything and the Nothing (1xCD, INFX 036)
Celer - Discourses of the Withered (1xCD, INFX 028)
Celer - Mandala (AIFF, MP3, PDF, ON-1)
Celer - '14 (Remix for Marco Lucchi)' VA "Radure 4 - The Iki" (rain026)
Mathieu Ruhlmann + Celer - Mesoscaphe (1xCD, Spekk KK014)
Celer - I.. (1xcdr, Surgical shapes)
Celer - Para (1xcdr, birds in tree)
Celer - Red Seals (mp3, AH020)
Celer - Red Seals (1xcdr, Seal)
Celer - Cantus Libres (2xcdr, Music Notes)
Celer - Neon (1xcdr, Poppy & Hummingbird)
Celer/Devin Sarno - Symphony 19 (1xmcdr)
Celer - Voodoo Crowds (Mp3 release, http://pathmusick.hermetech.net/path0x94)
Celer - Voodoo Crowds (??xcdr, Mexican Tarot Cards)
Celer - Bells (mp3 release, Rope Swing Cities)
Celer - Ariill (mp3 release, AH009)
Celer - Diluted (1xcdr of Improv Piano Works, in custom jigsaw puzzle box)
Celer - Sadha (2xcdr, in Handmade Sadha Sanskrit Art, Tibetan Silk Sleeve)
Celer - Canopy (1xmcd, 2007, Dragonfly art)
Celer - Tinghas (1xcdr, 2006)
Celer - Ceylon (1xcdr, 2006, Handmade Wave art)
Celer - Descender (1xcdr, 2006, Unreleased)
Celer - Continents (1xcdr, 1xmcd, 2006, South American/Firecracker art)
Celer - Continents (1xcd, Unlabel, 2007)
Celer - Sill - 1 Second Track, Obscurica Records 'Sloppy Seconds' Comp
Celer - Sieline (4xmcd, handmade double pyramids)
Celer - Fades (1xcdr, 2006, Unreleased)
Celer - Scols (cdr, 2006, handmade boy/girl art, released with Sunlir)
Celer - Melodia (2xcdr, 1xdvd Self-Mix, 2006, Unreleased)
Celer - Ariill (1xcdr, 2005, released with Belssllsssll)
Celer - Belssllsssll (1xcdr, 2005, released with Ariill)
Celer - Sunlir (1xcdr, Handmade boy/girl art, 2005, released with Scols)
Celer - Clear (Unreleased cdr, 2004)
Celer - White Prism (Wave design, Art by Spencer, Self-released cdr, 2003)

You can purchase some of our Self-Releases from Eclipse Records (www.eclipse-records.com) and Infraction Music (www.infractionrecords.com) in the USA, or Art Into Life (www.art-into-life.com) in Japan. 'Mesoscaphe' is available from Spekk (www.spekk.net), 'Discourses of the Withered' is available for order from Infraction Music (www.infractionrecords.com), 'Nacreous Clouds' is available from and/OAR (www.and-oar.org), and 'VA Sounds of Slow Flow Vol. 1' is available from Slow Flow Records (http://www.myspace.com/slowflowryo).
Record Label: Self-Released, Spekk, a/O, INFX
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

’Discourses’, ’Everything’, and ’Mesoscaphe review by e/i

http://www.eiaudioverite.blogspot.com/CELER Discourses of the Withered (Infraction)CELER The Everything and the Nothing (Infraction)CELER / MATHIEU RUHLMANN Mesoscaphe (Spekk)Barber, Chopin, Wagner, M...
Posted by Celer on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:10:00 PST

Reviews by Vital Weekly

CELER - DISCOURSES OF THE WITHERED (CD by Infraction Records)CELER - THE EVERYTHING AND THE NOTHING (CD by Infraction Records)(CELER - NACREOUS CLOUDS (CD by And/Oar)(On the risk of sounding like a re...
Posted by Celer on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:40:00 PST

Floor Sugar Update 9/23/08

UPDATE:Available Titles 9/23/08Floor Sugar Inventory 9/23/08Hibari MusicHibari-11 - Toshiya Tsunoda - 'Low Frequency Observed At Maguchi Bay' CD Available $15Ground Fault RecordingsGF010 Kiyoshi Mizut...
Posted by Celer on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:20:00 PST

Nacreous Clouds reviews

Celer c'est Dani Baquet-Long et Will Long avec violoncelle, violon, piano, diverses cloches et du field recording, le tout filtré par ordinateur. Au résultat de plus ou moins courtes plages, montage f...
Posted by Celer on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:11:00 PST

’Mesoscaphe’ featured in Furthernoise

NASA: "At 8:56 P.M. (EDT) July 14, 1969, research submarine Ben Franklin slipped beneath the surface of the Atlantic off the coast of Palm Beach, Florida. Its mission: to investigate the secrets of th...
Posted by Celer on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:12:00 PST

Floor Sugar Store

So, we've started a new webstore, called Floor Sugar. Its purpose will be for selling exclusive, experimental, and electronic music from Japan. We're just launching the Myspace page today, http://www....
Posted by Celer on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:12:00 PST

Mesoscaphe Reviews

Vital WeeklyOf a different kind, more the Spekk kind perhaps, is the work by Mathieu Ruhlmann which he recorded with Celer, a duo of Danielle Baquet-Long (pianosm words, custom electronics, tape-loops...
Posted by Celer on Tue, 20 May 2008 01:45:00 PST

’Nacreous Clouds’ available from and/OAR

Celer / Nacreous Clouds, (CD and/33)Released on and/OAR August 7, 2008We are very pleased to announce that our new album on and/OARhas been released! www.and-oar.orgAbout:Polar stratospheric clouds (P...
Posted by Celer on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 05:40:00 PST

’Mesoscaphe’ and ’Neon’ reviewed by Textura

Mathieu Ruhlmann + Celer: MesoscapheSpekkCeler: NeonCelerCollaborating with Vancouver-based Mathieu Ruhlmann was a wise move on Celer's part as it brings a new dimension to the duo's modus operandi. ...
Posted by Celer on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:33:00 PST

Discourses of the Withered / 'The Everything and the Nothing ' reviews

Infraction is a label which has constantly floated our ambient boat. I'm yet to hear a duff release on the label. The guy who runs the label must have magic robot music ears or something. Here's anoth...
Posted by Celer on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:16:00 PST