March 8, 2014
DSE performed live at the event NOISECONOMY at Printed Matter in NYC.
NOISECONOMY poster was printed in an edition of 100 off-set litho.
Other performers were Marcia Bassett and Matthew Regula.
March 6, 2014
DSE performed live at the event DEFERRED ACTION at Silent Barn in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY.
The DEFERRED ACTION poster is in an edition of 100 off-set litho prints.
Other performers were Richard Garet, Private Language, & Nathan Cearley.
A 12 CD signed edition box set, including double-sided poster, insert, sticker and die cut hand-assembled box. Designed in collaboration with Shiffman&Kohnke, Los Angeles. Edition: 50
This edition is the culmination of a one-year project from November 2011 to October 2012 in which one CD was released each month. The 64 tracks total 10 hours of electronic noise created in studio and at NY and LA venues.
The box set will be available for purchase through DSE studio and Studio10 gallery, Brooklyn.
www.dsenoise.com
DSEnoise Compilation
C60 Cassette. Ed 30.
Green Records and Tapes
Face Cutter is a compilation cassette featuring 13 tracks from the DSE noise project of studio recordings and live performances.
Green Records and Tapes, Ypsilanti, MI. July 2013.
Mastered at Catasonic, LA.
Photo Credit: Kristina King
An evening of six live noise performances by
DSE
Chelsea Rector
Shane Stritesky
Unica
Crowhurst
Witches of Malibu
David Schafer was invited by David Kordansky to perform and curate an evening of live noise entitled INTERSIST at the David Kordansky Gallery on Smiley Drive, Culver City.
In Sartre’s “Nausea”, the character Roquentin experiences an existential crisis that is referenced as interstitial. To coexist, resist, subsist, persist, obsist. To intersist – and live in between signification. Similar to Roquentin’s crisis, Jacques Atalli wrote in “Noise: A Political Economy of Music” to think of the idea of noise as the mutation of code, a carrier of death, but simultaneously a carrier of new information. “The absence of meaning is in this case the presence of all meaning”.
DSE live-processed Arnold Schoenberg’s work entitled “Erwartung”. Erwartung (translation: Expectation), Op. 17, 1909. A one-act 30 minute monodrama, an opera for a single soprano with orchestra, epitomizes Schoenberg’s early atonal style. The story is a psychological snapshot of the moment a woman comes across the dead body of her lover in the woods. Schoenberg’s description of Erwartung was as follows: “In Erwartung the aim is to represent in slow motion everything that occurs during a single second of maximum spiritual excitement, stretching it out to half an hour”.
Photo Credits Zaid Yousef and Kristina King
Neg-Fi/DSE 7″ Split Limited Edition White Vinyl
Released 15 February 2013
DSE ‘sixthirteentwelve’ 33 RPM. DSE studio, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY; June 2012
Neg-Fi ‘Concussion Sleep’ 45 RPM. Type Foundry, Portland Oregon; July 2012
DSE, in collaboration with the experimental Brooklyn based duo Neg-Fi, have just released this Limited Edition 7″ white vinyl album.
Available for download and physical purchase on Bandcamp.
“MUSICIRCUS”
06-24-2012
DSE performed as part of MUSICIRCUS at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY.
Live performance track available on DSE June album available for purchase on iTunes, Spotify, Bandcamp, and CDBaby.
Roulette presents a carnival of all things experimental, the Roulette MUSICIRCUS returns for a second annual celebration of chaos and the harmonies of simultaneity. MUSICIRCUS will unfold over the course of six hours with the audience invited to wander freely and choose their own sonic and visual relationships. First performed in 1967, John Cage’s MUSICIRCUS is simply an invitation for perfomers to assemble and play together.
ForYourArt
April 14-27
Two weekends of artists’ low-power radio transmissions and live performances. Curated by USC Roski School of Fine Arts, M.A. Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere 2012.
Radio Break is an exhibition on the air, presenting twelve artworks in locations throughout Los Angeles conveyed through low-power radio transmissions during two weeks and live events held on two consecutive weekends. Radio Break connects participants with the ambient sounds of the city, inviting them to tune in to its history, noise, narratives, and music.
Featuring: Brandon LaBelle, Alyce Santoro, Lincoln Tobier, Pedro Reyes, Brendan Threadgill, Arnoldo Vargas, 2 Headed Dog, Vanessa Place, Lucy Raven, Elana Mann and ARLA, David Schafer, Richard T. Walker.
Control Room
2006 East 7th Street
Downtown LA 90021
4/20/12
NEURO is a one night event of harsh noise, processed vocals, electronics and percussion, abstract sound textures, and compressed drones. Organized by David Schafer for Control Room in Los Angeles, NEURO includes DSE, Two Legged, Pedestrian Deposit, Chelsea Rector, and Damion Romero.
Glendale College Art Gallery
Glendale, California
March 10th – April 28th, 2012
“What Should an Astronaut Painter Do?” includes two sculptures that have accompanying sound with text and graphic work. Each sculpture has to do with a male figure of history, the astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and the painter Barnett Newman, both from the late 60’s. The space of the gallery becomes a walk in sound collage with both sculptures’ activating the gallery with sounds emitting and overlapping. Newman and Aldrin talking over each other about their challenges, successes, and doubts.
David Schafer 