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Dave Seidel / mysterybear

About Me

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Back in the 80's in NYC, I was in a band called People Falling, and played with/for downtown composers Scott Johnson, Lois V Vierk (for whom I made the premiere recording of her piece "Go Guitars" for five microtonally-tuned electric guitars), Guy Klucevsek, and Bill Obrecht (including his band La Guapa Papa).

After leaving the city, I co-founded Beloved World Music Ensemble in which I primarily played acoustic guitar.

These days, I live in New Hampshire, making electronic music and playing electric bass with Sisters & Brothers as well as occasional acoustic guitar with Redwing Blackbird .

For more information as well as high-quality MP3/OGG renderings and Csound scores of my recent music (all of which is freely available under a Creative Commons license), please visit mysterybear.net


View my page on Overtone Music Network
View my page on NetNewMusic

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/06/2006
Band Website: http://mysterybear.net
Influences: La Monte Young, Phill Niblock, Lois V Vierk, Robert Fripp, Alvin Lucier, Morton Feldman, James Tenney, Carter Scholz, Kraig Grady, John Luther Adams, Kyle Gann, Warren Burt, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, Terry Riley, Ben Johnston

Charlie Haden, Michael Henderson, Dave Holland, Bill Laswell, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Steve Swallow, Tony Levin, John Wetton, Charles Mingus

Sounds Like: The inside of my head.
Record Label: Glass Museum
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New piece: Invocation

Quranic recitation and Tibetan Buddhist chant, combined and time-stretched with spectral processing.MP3, FLAC, notes, and Csound code at:http://mysterybear.net/article/36/invocation
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 09:08:00 GMT

New piece: A Door Into Spring

A rhapsody in distressed metal; a seven-second sample time-stretched, pitch-shifted and layered into an ambient canon.  Hope you enjoy it. As always, comments are welcome. http://mysterybear.net/ar...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:54:00 GMT

New netlabel release: Sublimation

I'm happy to announce that my Sublimation release, previously a limited-run CD-R, is now available on NewNewMusic's spiffy net label:http://www.archive.org/details/nnm007It's the same material as the ...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:25:00 GMT

Review: Sublimation

I'm pleased to see the first review (a positive one) for my Sublimation CD at The Monadnock Review.  Thanks, Mark Saleski!
Posted by on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:15:00 GMT

UNIQUE STATES - BUOY MySpace Blog

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.... I will be participating in the first show in this series, along with Trachypithecus and Bhob Rainey.
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:22:00 GMT

CD-R "Sublimation" released tomorrow

I'm happy to announce that my new CD-R release on the Glass Museum label, Sublimation, will be released tomorrow at the Broke Arts Show at the Town House (10am to 4pm) in Peterborough, NH. The packag...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:53:00 GMT

New piece: Unstill Light

Just published a new piece called "Unstill Light". It's pulsating, droney, and superparticular. If you like that sort of thing, you may like this too. Made with Csound and blue. The piece is dedicated...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:22:00 GMT

New piece: Law Of Octaves

You can find it (with Csound code and high-quality MP3 and OGG versions) on my site.  I will eventually upload a lower-quality MP3 here.
Posted by on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:01:00 GMT

Back from tour; a new piece

Well, I'm back from the Sisters And Brothers tour.  We all had a great time, played some (hopefully) good music and met a bunch a nice people.  Looking forward to doing it again.As I recuper...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:27:00 GMT

Going on tour with Sisters and Brothers

We're about to go out on a tiny regional tour with the full seven-piece extravagonzo.  Here's the itinerary.UPDATE: July 10 is booked, see below.July, 8 2008 at wendy's awesome backyard extravaga...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:28:00 GMT