david casey
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david@drcaseymusic.com
davidcasey@alum.calarts.edu
858.761.3364
recent projects
Jun 17
Jun 16
Retrospect 22/-37. Produced for your enjoyment: all 7.5 hours of my completed work in one piece. Presented here in two parts.
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Jun 07
Still from my piece for the Music and Image Ensemble performed at CalArts on May 13th. Six screens, six projectors, six laptops. Using a jitter patch I coded, all six laptops were networked. Both the sound and the images were controlled by the computers based on stochastic patterns built into the patch. Images were composed in FCP from video I shot of various objects in a multiplane set up using plexiglas from the White Noise project discussed below.
May 29
Drawing by Mark Allen for Distributed Gallery’s 24/7 Truth Exhibit. Tom Leeser curates both sound and image for these video pieces. Several of my sound pieces will be used for the exhibition linked above. If you’re in Los Angeles, go check it out.
Apr 17
Audio samples from my work on Anthony Castillo’s production of The Lover. Perfomances at the CalArts Coffehouse Theatre, April 2009.
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The Lover 2
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The Lover 1
Mar 23
On Monday, March 16th, at 6:30AM I entered a 36”x36”x41” box that I had constructed from unfinished pine and plexiglas. For 12 hours, I sat in the box. Within the box, I was exposed to high volume white noise. I did not drink; I did not eat; I was unable to move more than a few inches in any direction. For the duration of the performance, a recording of a US Military document that outlined coercion tactics used on enemy combatants detained at military prisons played on a loop via headphones for those who wished to hear. Included among those tactics was white noise exposure.
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The US Military document detailing coercion techniques used on captured enemy combatants including white noise exposure. During the white noise exposure installation, listeners would hear the voice from the headphones mixing with the white noise coming out of the box.
Mar 14
Processing:: Sacred Geometry March 14th::
upcoming projects
::Arctic Sound::
This July, I'll be traveling to the arctic to record sound on a film directed by Conor Keenan. Our four person crew will be paddling in two canoes for three weeks along the Huikitak River, 360 miles north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, shooting and recording along the way. I'm looking forward to the sound of 22 hours of daylight.::STEIM ::: Netherlands::
In October, I'll be heading to Amsterdam to work on a project with three of my CalArts cohorts. We'll be working at STEIM: "center for research & development of instruments & tools for performers in the electronic performance arts." Nice. This will be heavy on the tech and a super fun experience. We'll be creating some pieces for guitar, cello, sax, and laptops. I hope to use local environmental data to generate interactive scores for the ensemble as well as work some local cuisine into the mix.::Crunchy/Messy Zen::
I received a grant through the CalArts interdisciplinary fund to put together an installation focusing on sound and body interacting with various natural materials. This should be up and running in November 2009. An hallucinatory zen garden, complete with water feature and a mossy log: you get to defame and/or defile it by stomping on it, picking it up, making it crunch and crackle. Sounds fun, no?
links
STEIM
David Oliver
BLDGBLOG
UbuWeb
The Shirelles
Casey Thomas Anderson
A New Note
Ryan Jeffrey
Amy Hyde
Ethan Rose
Towa Tei
Inigo Manglano-Ovalle
about
I know a piece is done when it surprises me. When my work is going well I am filled with joy. When people experience my work, I’d like them to feel free.My first memory: being pushed in a stroller, feeling/seeing/touching the warmth of the sun through green leaves. Everything else in my life has flowed from the experience. I studied metaphysics, alchemy and nutrition with the great Ethan Depweg, and aspire to increase my bone density through meditation. The more I mind my bones, the stronger is my mind; the more I mind my mind, the stronger are my bones.
