The Musical Ecologies series at the Old Stone House recently surpassed a decade of activity as a monthly symposium on music and sound….read more
“The Inner Ear of Don Zientara” Book…
Happy to be part of Antonia Tricarico‘s new book about Don Zientara and his legendary Inner Ear Studio! From the late 70s to its closing in 2021, Inner Ear was THE place for the DC punk underground – literally everybody
Rogelio Maxwell & Dan Joseph 1987-88…
On this April 2023 Bandcamp Friday I am pleased to release the complete recordings of my 1980s Washington, DC collaboration with multimedia artist and musician Rogelio Maxwell. Collected Recordings (1987-88) contains all our surviving recordings, including studio sessions at Inner
Review: Object Collection at the Brick…
Back in October I went to see Object Collection‘s revised staged adaptation of Robert Ashley’s Automatic Writing at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg. Here is my review for the DEC 22-JAN 23 issue of The Brooklyn Rail: brooklynrail.org/2023/12/music/Channeling-Robert-Ashley…
Review: Bush Tetras at Elsewhere…
FINAL WEEKEND on Governors Island…
https://mailchi.mp/665136da6ffa/final-weekend-on-governors-island This is the FINAL WEEKEND for Periodicity Piece #10 (Island Time), my multi-channel sound installation at the Harvestworks Art and Technology House in Nolan Park, Governors Island. Open hours are 11am-5pm Saturday and Sunday, and….. SATURDAY OCT 30, 3PM – PERFORMANCE
New Sound Installation 🔉…
My new multi-channel sound installation, Periodicity Piece #10 (Island Time) opens this weekend at the Harvestworks Art and Technology House in Nolan Park, Governors Island. 🔉 Listen to a sample Informed by early minimalism, acoustic ecology, deep listening and ambient music, Periodicity Piece #10 combines a diverse collection of sounds
Autumn In New York 🎶
[Fall 2021 Events – https://mailchi.mp/a70d1eec67f3/autumn-in-new-york] Dear Friends, Like many of you, I’m still staying close to home these days! Accordingly, I have a number of events coming up in and around my Brooklyn neighborhood that I am very excited about!
5th Ave. Art Stroll
11:00AM – Dan Joseph, Dulcimer Flight
Taking it Outside – Dan Joseph and 10 guitars
Taking it Outside – Dan Joseph and Ten Guitars Dan Joseph leads ten steel-stringed acoustic guitars in a new 45-minute work. Joseph weaves layers of interlocking rhythms to a mass sound, set against the ambience of Newtown Creek. The event
Periodicity Piece #10 (Island Time)
Periodicity Piece #10 (Island Time) is a new mixed-media, multi-channel sound installation. Informed by early minimalism, acoustic ecology, deep listening and ambient music, Periodicity Piece #10 combines a diverse collection of sounds into a slowly changing sonic ecosystem. Drawing on the unique Governor’s
JCC Trio Live + guests (outdoors)
JCC Trio Live at OSH (outdoors, weather permitting) Join us for a June evening outdoor concert featuring JCC Trio! The free-form minimalist synth-pop lounge experiment featuring composer-performers Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer), Tom Chiu (violin), and Jason Cady (modular synthesizer). Admission
JCC Trio Live + Jeremiah Cymerman solo (outdoors)
JCC Trio Live at OSH (outdoors, weather permitting) Join us for a June evening outdoor concert featuring JCC Trio! The free-form minimalist synth-pop lounge experiment featuring composer-performers Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer), Tom Chiu (violin), and Jason Cady (modular synthesizer). +
New release: “Control of Nature”…
On March 21, 2021 I released a recent collection of fixed-media works titled Control of Nature. I composed these four pieces in summer 2018 intending to pair each with an accompanying video work, to be presented as a group in
Halloween Split Series….
Excited to share my new track alongside those of @jacobhuttomusic on the @CAVBREREC Halloween split series (Edition 20.1 )outta #Binghamton #NY ! 🎃 🎶 🔉 https://t.co/Udv4DDXrGr — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer) October 15, 2020
9353: The band that D.C….
9353: The band that D.C. Hardcore chose to forget, by Brian F. Cousins in the online music magazine Perfect Sound Forever
JCC Trio Live at OSH (outdoors)
Join us for an Autumn evening outdoor concert featuring JCC Trio! The free-form minimalist synth-pop lounge experiment that began last year at Troost has blossomed into a highly original collective, featuring composer-performers Dan Joseph (hammer dulcimer), Tom Chiu (violin), and
Musical Ecologies 9/17/20 Audio…
The audio from our two-hour live Musical Ecologies radio broadcast with Alex Waterman is now online: wavefarm.org/wf/archive/wv2fcm
JCC Trio, new live album…
The JCC Trio (Dan Joseph, Tom Chiu & Jason Cady) developed organically over the course of several casual sessions at TROOST, where I hosted a monthly series called “Sunday Soundscapes.” Che Chen attended one of those, and later invited us
Jen Kutler
Sunday Soundscapes
Fire Over Heaven
The Hypno-Seizure Tape Reissue…
The Hypno-Seizure Tape is a split cassette release I made with CYRNAI (Carolyn Fok) in 1988. At the time she lived in San Francisco and I in Washington, DC and each of us assembled and distributed our own copies throughout
Sunday Soundscapes: Dan Joseph-Tom Chiu-Jason Cady Trio
Sunday Soundscapes continues at Troost this fall with the first of three performances by this new trio for hammer dulcimer, violin and synthesizer. Free-form minimalist synth-pop lounge music of the future…no cover!
Sunday Soundscapes: Dan Joseph-Tom Chiu-Jason Cady Trio
Sunday Soundscapes continues at Troost this fall with the first of three performances by this new trio for hammer dulcimer, violin and synthesizer. Free-form minimalist synth-pop lounge music of the future…no cover!
New blog post: Jan Jelinek in BK…
A new blog post about a recent performance by German electronic musician Jan Jelinek at Public Records in Brooklyn… http://www.danjoseph.org/blog/jan-jelinek/
Musical Ecologies Season VII…
The Musical Ecologies series will return to the Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn for a seventh season of music and conversation hosted by composer and curator Dan Joseph The upcoming season will include six events – three in the fall 2019 and three
Dan Joseph / Michael J. Schumacher
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Matthew Welch / Dan Joseph
Matthew Welch solo bagpipe, & Dan Joseph solo hammered dulcimer
Unsung Series, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn
7pm Miyama McQueen-Tokita – koto / Jessie Cox – percussion / James Ilgenfritz – bass 7:45 Dan Joseph – hammer dulcimer 8:30 small group improvisations: Chris McIntyre – trombone Josh Sinton – baritone saxophone Judith Berkson – voice Dan Joseph
I reviewed the book on Joy Division…
My review of the new oral history of Joy Division in the May issue of The Brooklyn Rail: I reviewed the new oral history of #postpunk legends @joydivision for @TheBrooklynRail #factoryrecords #manchester https://t.co/4VtU2ZYGcu — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer) May 14, 2019
Sunday Soundscapes
Sunday Soundscapes
Join us for the June edition of Sunday Soundscapes featuring Dan Joseph, Tom Chiu and Jason Cady, as we continue our excursions into global synth-pop minimalist lounge music of the future! facebook.com/events/300686230872767
My review of “Improvement”…
Sunday Soundscapes: Dan Joseph & David Watson
Site of Sound: Dan Joseph
Sunday Soundscapes – Dan Joseph & Matt Mottel
Sunday Soundscapes – Dan Joseph & Peter Gordon
Facebook event page
My review of Exploded View (band)…
Back in November I caught @ExplodedViewBnd at @RoughTradeNYC. Here is my review in @TheBrooklynRail – https://t.co/LqMbdznvXj — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer) January 4, 2019
Katherine Liberovskaya & Dan Joseph +
Performance Series at Nha Minh 485 Morgan Avenue 8pm $10- 100% door to the artists: Charles Waters: Clarinet Event Afuma; @Taketo Shimada- lapsteel, shehnai, vocals @Stefan Tcherepnin- baritone guitar, sonica, vocals Katherine Liberovskaya & Dan Joseph
Musical Ecologies: Nate Wooley
Musical Ecologies: Jack Callahan
Dan Joseph + Blevin Blectum
Extradition Recital Series: Dan Joseph
Musical Ecologies: Pamela Z
Sunday Soundscapes – Dan Joseph, Tom Chiu and Jason Cady
I reviewed the book on Swans…
I reviewed a new oral history of Swans for The Brooklyn Rail, check it out here! Check out my review of the new #Swans book by Nick Soulsby @NirvanaLegacy in the Sept. issue of @TheBrooklynRail https://t.co/Iqj0PLSVj3 — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer)
Music video for Control of Nature…
The music #video for part I of “The Control of Nature” (2018), a set of four fixed-media, #electroacoustic works forthcoming on cassette later this summer…#water #patterns #flow
My review of IDLES live in Brooklyn…
Earlier this spring I checked out @idlesband live @RoughTradeNYC Read my account in the June issue of @TheBrooklynRail https://t.co/DCEuivI8xo — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer) June 7, 2018
In review: sfSound with Dan Joseph…
In review at San Francisco Classical Voice, my concert with sfSound last weekend at Center for New Music: Reviewed in @SFCV: Space and Silence Are Key to the Musical Lexicon of #sfSound @olivep @MichaelPisaro @dcomposer @sonomatics https://t.co/KEZiukS6wA — Dan Joseph
In conversation with Joe Casey…
My conversation with Protomartyr’s Joe Casey is included in this month’s issue of The Brooklyn Rail: All In Until it Stops: JOE CASEY #protomartyr in conversation with Dan Joseph @TheBrooklynRail: https://t.co/pARsEDjS28 — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer) February 8, 2018
My November essays in NewMusicBox…
My final essay in a four-part series published by the essential NewMusicBox web magazine. You can find all four pieces here: nmbx.newmusicusa.org/author/danjoseph For the final installment on his series about what to do as a mid-career composer, @dcomposer asserts that,
Remembering Pauline Oliveros…
As the one year anniversary of her passing approaches, I wrote down my memories of the most important teacher in my life, Pauline Oliveros. Read the essay here: danjoseph.org/blog/pauline
On the ‘Mid-Career’ Composer…
The first in a four-part series of essays I am writing throughout the month of November for NewMusicBox concerns what it means to be a mid-career composer: @dcomposer attempts to unravel what it means to be a #midcareer composer https://t.co/cLXtnmlS6y
Electroacoustic Works 2xCD (XI 138) Out Now!
RELEASED MARCH 2017, DAN JOSEPH – Electroacoustic Works, 2xCD on xirecords.com Electroacoustic Works by Dan Joseph Electroacoustic Works collects three major pieces from the early 21st century by New York-based composer Dan Joseph. This 2 CD release includes Set of
I was interviewed by A Closer Listen…
Dan Joseph’s Electroacoustic Works: Birdwatching in Levi’s with John Cage By Todd B. Gruel, August 27, 2017 I was recently interviewed for @acloserlisten, and here’s what went down…. https://t.co/TSIsa3VJ1W https://t.co/s4xm18rEoQ — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer) August 28, 2017
Mountain Music on Ridgewood Radio…
A recent live performance I gave of Mountain Music, a recently revived work for hammer dulcimer, electronics and tape was included on the July 5th broadcast of WFMU‘s Ridgewood Radio. It’s a great weekly program hosted by David Weinstein focused
Musical Ecologies in Review…
Five seasons of the Musical Ecologies Series in review Video clips from all five seasons:
Sleaford Mods Review…
My review of Sleaford Mods recent NYC appearance in the Brooklyn Rail: My review of @sleafordmods recent NYC appearance in @TheBrooklynRail 😜👽💣 https://t.co/dYSEZOY2mY — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer) May 4, 2017
Reading List…
I’ve been reading a lot of music books recently, and I just wrote a blog post about some of them… https://t.co/2jis81eOHb — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer) May 3, 2017
Review: Austra at Warsaw…
My review of Austra's late January appearance at Warsaw in Greenpoint, Brooklyn: https://t.co/z7gelZzfjm Dan Joseph dances to the Synth Pop Politics of Austra in @TheBrooklynRail https://t.co/z7gelZzfjm — George Grella (@gtra1n) March 4, 2017
Legendary Pink Dots Review…
Dan Joseph was there for The Return of the Legendary Pink Dots, in @TheBrooklynRail https://t.co/76KHVetb0I — George Grella (@gtra1n) December 7, 2016
Alvin Curran interview online…
“…and that’s where I went, almost as if it was a form of musical amnesia, where you not only allow yourself to get lost, but enjoy being lost.” My conversation with Alvin Curran in The Brooklyn Rail… Dan Joseph sits
sfSound article now online…
POSTED: Dan Joseph's meaty Summer 2015 feature on the adventurous sfSound, presenting the annual San Francisco Tape Music this weekend (Jan 8-10). Rewind and enjoy! Posted by Musicworks Magazine on Friday, January 8, 2016
My review of The Ex…
My review of The Ex at @WFMU's Monty Hall just published in @TheBrooklynRail – https://t.co/sRQsLNOI19 — Dan Joseph (@dcomposer) December 9, 2015
New video for Trio I…
My newest audiovisual piece, which doubles as a music video for my 2011 electroacoustic composition "Trio I"….check it out!
My review of Low…
My review of Low live at Music Hall of Williamsburg: http://brooklynrail.org/t/11212 Dan Joseph on The Hypnotic Harmonies of Low https://t.co/Vr4bEgtLDQ — George Grella (@gtra1n) November 6, 2015
Underground Suite on SoundCloud…
I'm excited to finally share this new recording by Chris Mannigan & Danny Tunick of my recent piece Underground Suite. They premiered it in March at the Old Stone House, and recorded it over the summer at Figure 8 Recording.
Underground-Suite
This Thursday's Musical Ecologies concert by Chris Mannigan and Danny Tunick includes the premiere of my new piece Underground Suite. It was commissioned by this saxophone and percussion duo in 2013 and is part of a larger commissioning project they've