6.6.08
DUNCAN LAURIE / MIND MELD 2008
A RECENT Visit to Duncan Laurie's Lab in Jamestown, RI, and A performaNce at mind meld 2008 documented on matrixsynth and create digital music. DUNCAN HAS SPENT THE LAST 20 years Exploring and writing about semiotics and the relationship of subtle energy technology (psychotronic and radionic) to art; devising sonic plant and mineral communication experiments for artistic presentation (with Gordon Salisbury, toDd thille, and others). At DUNCAN's LAB we made music with fruits, vegetables, plants, rocks, our own muscles & brainwaves, and all sorts of other items of typically of little interest to musicians.
5.23.08
ELEKTRON COMPILATION COLLABORATION WITH RICHARD DEVINE
RICHARD DEVINE VS. JESWA - WARAFIN
45 TRIBUTE, COMPILATION FEATURING AUTECHRE, VENETIAN SNARES, BOOM BIP, THE SEA AND CAKE, AND 24 OTHERS, IS AN HOMAGE TO Elektron CEO and co-founder Daniel Hansson, WHO passed away in AUGUST 2007. All proceeds collected from the 45 Tribute will be donated to the World Wildlife Fund.
see 45tribute.com for details
3.23-28.08
WMC 2008
A few performances (AS phoenecia) lined up for the winter music coference in miami.
see schematic.net/news for details
3.21.08
SONY PREMIUM SOUND LIBRARY:
AVAILABLE NOW: The Electronic Music Manuscript: A Richard Devine Collection. I Assisted rich on the content for this library. we are curently working on part 2 now. The included 2-part documentary alone is worth the price of admission :). READ THE TRASH AUDIO INTERVIEW W/RICH ABOUT THE LIBRARY HERE
2.12.08
SMOTHER SOUNDTRACK:
smother, a film by luis gispert - soundtrack by phoenecia. see
schematic.net/news for details and new york times review
11.05.07
TRASHAUDIO INTERVIEW:
ABOUT MY WORKSPACE |
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artist
name & alias:
josh
kay = jeswa
member of:
phoenecia, soul oddity, devinesound, founding member of schematic music company
influences: (mood reflective & By no means all-inclusive)
the music of indonesia, northeastern africa, north and south
india, islamic and bulgarian vocal music, persian folk music, moodog, sun ra, CABARET VOLTAIRE, THE FUTURE/EARLY HUMAN LEAGUE, 808 STATE, the forgemasters, the beatles, umma gumma era pink floyd, richard james, oskar sala, dick raaijmakers, harry bertoia, lasry and the
brothers baschet, raymond scott, TOD DOCKSTADER, hugh le caine, francois
bayle, xenakis, gorecki, ligeti, CHARLES koechlin, ludwig van beethoven, glen velez, sharda
sahai, zakir hussain, herbie hancock, john lilly, mizoguchi, kurosawa,
miyazake, kawase hasui, koji morimoto, alex grey, bosch, breugel,
haeckel, hans bellmer, dali & escher (don't front, you love them too), irving norman, francois dallagret, cocteau, tarkovsky, parajonov, EARLY WORKS FROM WARP, NETWORK, CHILL, TRANSMAT, the past and future of the schematic music companY... THE LIST GOES ON...
hobbies:
brain
gardening, beat making, sushi rolling, knob twiddling, nature recording (shhh...)
a special message to the kids:
be
productive, not reproductive
ELEVEN favorite things:
meLAN,
ketalonia, osa peninsula, percussion & discussion, studio foam, pink lady apples, DREAMS, mushrooms, snails, trees & breeze
quote:
"the
most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical.
It is the sower of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger is as good as dead."
-albert
einstein |
SOUNDTRACKS & EXHIBITIONS
AS PHOENECIA:
As Pergillus - Dir. Kevin Medal / 5:38 / 2008
Smother - Dir. Luis Gispert / 26:42 /2008
How LOng Is Forever - Dir. FranCO Gonzales / 12:24 /2006
CyCLic Redundancy - Dir. melanie Patiram /
5.1 Surround / 6:33 / 2005
RELEASES
as jeswa:
needle, jeswa, & otto von schirach - the cabinet
of dr. caligari/nosferatu - elegua records
poema singelo - lily of the valley - schematic
skone ep - schematic
soul
odyssey - miambient - whirling Records
jeswa remixes:
“dreamlight steak version” - phoenecia
- odd job discrimination - schematic
"transportative restaurant cubicle" - find
more hits - lucky kitchen
“jeswa’s wet majestic” - metic -
"tape birth" - ischemic folks- schematic
as phoenecia: (with r. del castillo)
"bob09" - mission three - nature 1997
randa roomet ep- warp (uk) 1998
"roba" on "from beyond" ep vol.2 - interdimensional transmissions 1998
“roba live edit"- on "from beyond" lp - interdimensional transmissions 1998
"run dmt" - on "lorraine" - peach 1998
track 1 - on "ischemic folks" - schematic 1999
track 7 - with fernando subirats - on "ischemic folks" - schematic 1999
track 8 - on "ischemic folks" - schematic 1999
"yamuna" - on "lily of the valley" - schematic 1999
"dilido" - on "lily of the valley" - schematic 1999
odd job – schematic 1999
"poonani" - featuring sandra castillo - on "voices in my lunchbox 2" - plug research 2000
odd jobs – schematic 2000
odd job discrimination – schematic 2001
brownout lp – schematic 2001
“dilido” – v/a - documenta - agenda 2002
non-specific acoustic stimulation – or computer music vol.2 – touch 2002
"sunset condor" - warp magic bus tour cd - warp 2002
phoenecia remixes:
metic - "phase inv2" - "ischemic strokes vol.1" - schematic 1998
david kristian - "i have a drug"- alien8 - "woodworking" (canada) 1998
east flatbush project - "tried by 12" - chocolate industries / ninjatune (uk) 1998
jake mandell - "untitled 27" - "lilly of the valley" - schematic 1999
deadpan escapement - "scapegoat" - context/belief systems 1999
tipper - “dissolve (out)” - sony/higher ground/fuel 2001
adult - misinterpreted 12” - ersatz audio 2002
alpha606 - "domino" - phoenecia renacimiento remix - dopamine 2003
subjex - "subslaughter" - miad compilation - somia 2004
otto von schirach - "boombonic plague" - phoenecia gorge, binge, purge mix - armpit buffet - schematic 2005
jandek - "your other man" - phoenecia outer harmony - schematic 2006
kettel - "my dogan" - trance parents mix
kettel - "my dogan" - kettl-on-U dub version
TEAM DOYOBI - SIXTY FOUR - 64 ByteiNg HertZ MIX
as soul oddity: (with r. del castillo)
tone capsule lp - astralwerks/caroline 1995
"chrome ozone" - "werks like a 12"" - astralwerks/ caroline 1996
soul oddity remixes:
newcleus - "jam on it" - hot productions 1998
phoenecia - "odd job" (get fresh) - schematic 1999
phoenecia - "odd job” (rhythm box) - schematic 1999
for full jeswa discography see discogs.com/jeswa
for phoenecia discography see schematic.net/phoenecia
for soul oddity discography see discogs.com/soul oddity
1988-1993: obscure,
intentionally anonymous, or otherwise unpublished -
soul
odyssey, united space, global, cloudseat, etc...
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