Sean Dorsey Dance "The Lost Art of Dreaming" is in Seattle March 2-5! The Lost Art of Dreaming is coming to Seattle and features original music I composed just for the show! It will be performed at Velocity in Seattle the evening of March 2, 3, and 4 and the afternoon of March 5th. This new full-evening work is a fusion of full-throttle dance, intimate storytelling, intricate costuming and exquisite queer partnering …The show is now on a 10+ city national tour. https://velocitydancecenter.org/events/the-lost-art-of-dreaming/ https://freshmeatproductions.org/the-lost-art-of-dreaming-seattle-tour/ Info on other cities the show will tour to: https://seandorseydance.com/calendar/upcoming-events/

Ten years ago Eighty-One came out on Ninja Tune, and Sean, Yppah and I had a chance to tour together and play some awesome shows. This in-studio from KEXP was our first performance together, and it was so much fun! With nostalgic excitement, I’ll be joining these two on stage again for a cameo at Madame Lou’s on 10/6.

If you are in San Francisco, Sean Dorsey Dance 2022 Home Season will kick off with a “sneak-peek excerpts-in-progress for “The Lost Art of Dreaming” next weekend at Z Space! I’ll have several new pieces of music in the show, and am thrilled to premiere some of these new collaborations with this amazing dance company. What an honor to be a part of this! https://seandorseydance.com/sean-dorsey-dance-2022-home-season/ Photo by Kegan Marling

I found Aiko Aiko inspiring, heartwarming, and genuine. They contributed a beautiful remix of The Good Life for Flux Remixed - and I got to spend several cozy days with them making music and sharing our thoughts on life over coffee. We continued to collaborate from a distance and I got to listen to their new album unfold. It was my pleasure to have collaborated with them on some really artistic, heart wrenching, honest, eerily beautiful songs. Their new album is out on Whales Records, and this music video for the song Empire 154 / nr. Key was just released. These two lovely human beings are great at collaboration and are making music worth admiring! Check Aiko Aiko out if you don’t know them already ❤️

I invited the musical duo Aiko Aiko to do a remix of "The Good Life" from my album "Flux" a few years ago, and they produced a gorgeous remix. Aiko Aiko always had my admiration and respect, but until I met and got to spend time with them in the studio, I had no idea what sincere, talented, intelligent, kind, thoughtful human beings they were! On my tour through Europe in 2017, Aiko Aiko were kind enough to introduce me to their musical friends, and they came out to see me play live at fluc + fluc wanne Vienna. After the tour I stayed a week there, and we spent several days in the studio together, listening to their demos, jamming on ideas, and philosophizing about life. What an amazing time we had! I’m even more nostalgic about it now since the world has changed so much since then… I took their demos back home and recorded more strings from Seattle, and we’ve kept in touch since as they’ve honed and completed this wonderful new album Radical Nopinion, which is OUT TODAY! I am excited to have contributed strings to several tracks on the album, and am still in awe of their thoughtful, prescient, honest songs and the beautiful artistry they bring to everything they do! Here are a few clips from the songs I contributed strings to on the album. You can link to the full album at: https://aikoaiko.bandcamp.com/album/radical-nopinion

This weekend! Sean Dorsey Dance will be premiering their “At Home Season,” featuring new music I composed as a part of a series of collaborations with this amazing choreographer and community. You have to register ahead, and it’s online so you can watch from home. Get your tickets now here: https://seandorseydance.com/sean-dorsey-dance-2021-at-home-season/

Livestream January 10th!

Mark your calendars! Live Studio Visit - Streaming January 10th at 1pm PST.

Thanks to generous support from New Music USA and 4Culture, I have been busy in the studio with new music and collaborations. On Sunday, January 10th at 1pm, I’m inviting listeners to visit my home studio through a livestream on both Instagram and Facebook. I’ll share some of the new things I have been working on behind-the-scenes, including new collaborations and some of what I have been creating for Sean Dorsey Dance. Drop by with your burning questions if you’d like to chat, and to catch a glimpse of what I’m working on these days!

I’m so thrilled to share this video postcard from Sean Dorsey Dance - for which I composed BRAND NEW custom music!!! I couldn’t be more excited to be collaborating with artists making such timely, meaningful and important work. This series of short dance films are part of the constellation of activities in Sean Dorsey Dance's project "The Lost Art of Dreaming." http://seandorseydance.com/the-lost-art-of-dreaming/ A special thanks to New Music USA for supporting this project.

It’s a crazy time, and I’m grateful to derive solace, purpose and meaning in creating - and getting to collaborate with some very inspiring people these days! Thank you to New Music USA for supporting artists and to listening to artists’ voices during these uncertain times. And to Sean Dorsey for creating such astounding, resonant work. I couldn’t be more thrilled to be working on The Lost Art of Dreaming.

New Music USA just announced the tenth round of New Music USA Project Grants, and I’m humbled and proud to be included!I’ll be teaming up with acclaimed San Francisco choreographer Sean Dorsey to create “The Lost Art of Dreaming,” which will investigate what happens when trans communities are invited to disrupt long-entrenched fatalistic American constructs that deny transgender communities the space to dream.

After Sean Dorsey’s last show “Boys In Trouble” won an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for ”Best Music/Text,” we decided to take our collaborations to the next level. I couldn’t be more thrilled to be a part of this inspiring intrdisciplinary collaboration!

"The Lost Art of Dreaming" is supported by New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Helen F. Whitaker Fund, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc., Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Howard Gilman Foundation, Anonymous.

https://www.newmusicusa.org/projects/the-lost-art-of-dreaming/

Sad to see of the passing of such a talented songwriter today. I rarely record cover songs, but over the years this has been a favorite of mine - and a song I often find myself singing to reverberating empty rooms during soundcheck. Thank you #billwithers for the beauty you’ve left behind. #aintnosunshine

If you’re in Seattle the weekend of October 18th, you’re in for a treat! I am thrilled that Sean Dorseys’ brilliant show “Boys In Trouble,” which features some of my music, is coming to Seattle on tour! I flew to San Francisco for the premiere, and I literally wept throughout the performance. It is a powerful, insightful, personal, revolutionary and beautiful show that you absolutely must see if you can. I was delighted to return for the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards when the show won “Best Music/Sound/Text!” Such an honor to walk to stage with a fellow artist so talented, courageous and capable! Boys In Trouble will be at the Velocity Dance Center October 17 - 20. Also - queer director Wendy Jo Carlton’s film “Good Kisser,” which premiered this year at SIFF and features some of my music, will be screening in Seattle the same weekend! Saturday, October 19th at 7pm as a part of the Queer Film Festival.

I am thrilled to be joining an amazing group of artists in California next week for “Palm Noir,” a collaboration between Art Hub Copenhagen and Nordic LA at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. This artist residency will bring together Danish and American artists to create experimental art and soundscapes inspired by the desert oasis. The culmination of this interdisciplinary mini-residency is a one-day exhibition at the legendary Ace Hotel & Swim Club located in Palm Springs. Here the artists will present their praxis to professionals in the creative environment. Visual artists Emile Alstrup, Sofie Alsbo, Carl Mannov, Jeff Frost and Chris Sanchez will curate site-specific installations, sculptures and paintings - and I will perform a short concert during the showcase on the Stargazing Deck to end the week on Saturday, July 27th. Follow the ACE Hotel for updates and info, and read more about the residency on Art Hub Copenhagen’s website!

Last week Wendy Jo Carlton’s new film “Good Kisser” premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival, and I got to attend a screening with the cast and crew. It’s a pleasure and an honor to have some of my music featured in the film, and I loved how sexy and honest a story it is! It was lovely to hear/see it all on the big screen for the first time. The film is making the film festival circuit, so check it out when it screens near you! Unwind remix by Cuushe

Alex Banks has released a beautiful new single - “Chasms” featuring Asgeir on Mesh Records. I enjoyed contributing some strings to the mix and immersing myself in his beautiful, brooding electronic music. Listen to the whole thing: https://youtu.be/qq7CD8FN828

We won an Izzie! It’s been such an honor to get to work with San Francisco based choreographer, Sean Dorsey. I have been so inspired and moved by his powerful work, and it was a delightful surprise to get to celebrate winning an Isadora Duncan Dance Award in San Francisco this week together - for the music/sound/text of Sean’s newest show “Boys In Trouble.” There are few thing more magical to me than when artists connect and derive inspiration from each other across disciplines, and Sean’s work is truly mind blowing and heart opening. The show is touring to over 20 cities, and if you have a chance, I wouldn’t miss it!

Because their servers were down this week, 8Stem has extended the deadline for the remix contest of “Right Way” a week. Now it’s VALENTINES DAY. Get your Hallmark on and submit your remix by February 14th for a chance to win! xoxo I’ll pick my favorite, though you can’t go wrong with awesome remix stems from Antibalas, Blockhead and Subaqueous. “Right Way” is from Flux - out on Diving Bell Recordings