Dennis DeSantis: DJ set @ Halcyon, April 14, 2010 by Dennis DeSantis

Tracklist:

1) Rhythm & Sound – Carrier – Rhythm & Sound
2) Big Spender – Fade to Black – Plastic City America
3) Michael Jackson – Billie Jean (a capella) – Epic
4) Solaris Heights – Rivers (Dennis DeSantis Remix) – unreleased
5) Lusine – Crowded Room – Ghostly International
6) Earth, Wind & Fire – September – Columbia
7) Alex Israel – Penithboid (Dennis DeSantis Remix) – Beretta Red
8) Telefon Tel Aviv – What’s the Use of Feet If You Haven’t Got Legs? – Hefty Records
9) Al Tourettes – Dodgem – Apple Pips
10) Marko Fürstenberg – Steinbruch (Dennis DeSantis Remix) – unreleased
11) Murcof – Ulysses (Fax Mix) – Leaf
12) Proem – Sleep is For Lunch – Merck
13) Dennis DeSantis – Pilfer – unreleased
14) FaltyDL – Our Loss – Planet Mu
15) Dennis DeSantis – Asynchronous – unreleased
16) Diego – High In Spaces (Dennis DeSantis Remix) – unreleased
17) Theorem – Embed – Minus
18) Lomov – Kynon – Thinner
19) Terry Riley – In C – Ghostly International
20) Michael Jackson – Get On The Floor – Sony

Here’s a brief rundown on what’s happening. I promise to get to all of it in more detail soon:

1) I’ll be playing some kind of hybrid live/DJ set at Brooklyn’s venerable Halcyon Records on Wednesday, April 14 from 7-9pm EST. If you don’t happen to be in Brooklyn, fear not; the whole thing will be broadcast live at dailysession.com and then archived and streamed via both dailysession and the Halcyon website. Expect music and witty banter.

Ghostly International

2) I previously discussed my performance of Terry Riley’s In C at Le Poisson Rouge in November of 2009 with the venerable and not-to-be-stopped GVSU New Music Ensemble. I’m thrilled to announce that the live recording of this performance will be released by the also-venerable and not-to-be-stopped Ghostly International on April 27. I can’t tell you how thrilled and honored I am about this, both because GVSUNME deserves all the attention they can get and because Ghostly is pretty much my favorite label, ever.

3) I’ll be performing at the Whitney Museum of American Art on May 7 at 6:30, as part of a series of performances on and around a sculpture installation. For about an hour, I’ll be recording the sounds of the sculpture and the room itself and turning them into something like music in real time.

4) I’m writing an opera for the Staatsoper Stuttgart for performance this July. Yes, that’s very soon. This is why I’m busy.

After many years, dennisdesantis.com 2.0 has arrived. (An aside: technically, this is more like 5.0. I’ve been maintaining a personal website for about 15 years. I started even before Geocities existed – yes, there was such a time. Early versions had things like lens flare effects. If you’ve been keeping track this long, you’re either a slightly creepy stalker or you’re my mother.)

As you can see, the new site features a cleaner, minimal design, and no longer has the confusing division between “Latest News” and “Journal.” Now the whole thing functions as a blog, which means maybe I’ll actually update now and then.

Other features include:

• an updated score store, with automatic downloading after a purchase. I no longer have to email files manually, meaning you could buy stuff from me even if I died. Hurray for technology.
• locally-hosted audio files. No more broken links. No more relying on flakey record companies to maintain accurate archives of their backstock.
• an events calendar, that automatically removes things once they’re finished. (Hint: I can only add events if I know about them. So if you’re playing a piece of mine, let me know.)
• an RSS feed, if you’d prefer to read my latest musings alongside stuff from proper news outlets in some fancy-pants feed aggregator.
• all the goodies that a modern blogging platform can provide, such as tags, commenting, etc. There’s really little reason for you to visit any other websites anymore.

Thanks for reading.