my girl, musicians, djs, filmmakers, designers, programmers, creative types
more electronic
Nightmares On Wax, Plump DJs, William Orbit, Air, Daft Punk, Chicane, Cottonbelly, Everything But the Girl, Jake DeVere, Jamiroquai, Kaskade, BT, Mandalay, NIN, Postal Service, Roni Size, Tosca, Way Out West, The Orb, Orbital, A Positive Life, Higher Intelligence Agency, Ben Watt, Cirrus
less electronic
Sigur Ros, G Love, Cake, Husky Rescue, Jurassic 5, Keane, Beck, The Kinks, Lisa Loeb, Counting Crows, Alana Davis, Anna Nalick, Radiohead, James Brown, Ben Harper
I began to experiment with my father's reel-to-reel and a broken keyboard, salvaged from a faded disco. In the early 90's, I set my roots in live music, playing guitar with assorted bands including The Naked Trolls (circa 1994), The Buttermilk Five (circa 1997), and Alice Blue (voted Best Portland Band 2002 by the Willamette Week Best Of).
I discovered electronic music in college, and began to write and perform electronic based compositions. Eventually, I received a scholarship in Music Composition and was the Production and General Manager for my college radio station. I graduated from Whitworth College in 1998 with a BS in Computer Science, and 2 minors: one in Mathematics, and the other in Music.
After college, I co-opened a dance club in Spokane WA in 2000, while performing as a DJ (vinyl folks!) both underground and on the club circuit. I worked as an audio engineer and video editor for a professional post-production studio for 3 years after college, totally immersed in the production environment. I loved it.
I had always missed my home town of Portland OR, so I returned in 2001 in search of a bigger creative market. I freelanced for a year or so as a media designer, meanwhile honing my graphic design chops. I reconnected with a high school buddy who was producing films, and we began Resonance Productions, a video/film production company. He handled the visuals, and I made sure it sounded sweet.
In 2002, I was hired by a custom golf club retailer to take over the graphic design and redesign their web site. Over the course of the 3 years I was there, I helped them become the 1 online retailer of custom golf clubs. I don't play golf.
I wrote and recorded a musical score for a 2005 short film called The Leeward Tide (www.leewardtide.com). It has played in about 30 film festivals worldwide, as well as on Comcast OnDemand. The score won "Best Music" at the Foursite Film Festival.
An intense study of graphic design, web technology, and media production over the last 5 years allowed me to launch Dayn W Creative (www.daynw.com) in Portland in 2005. My wife left her career as an Interior Designer to join the creative cause. We specialize in graphic design for web and print, especially for creative types. Oh, and we professionally dabble in film and audio/music production. We are passionate about clean, intuitive, and uniquely bold projects. We are design junkies, and we love to share.
We're playing a HUGE show at The Doug Fir DECEMBER 13TH!! We're sharing the stage with Jasmine Ash and Dirty Martini. It's going to be a blast. It be great to see you and Becky there!!
Dayn - yeah! Glad to be your virtual myspace friend... you becky and me should say hello sometime as the holidays near. hope you are well and enjoying every minute of all your adventures and endeavors! :)
Hello. We're playing a free show this Wednesday in Portland. It's the Unfiltered Indie Rock showcase at the White Eagle Saloon on Sep. 19th, starting at 9:00. We'll be playing with Quaker Gun and a Cautionary Tale. Did I mention it's free? Hope you can make it...
First and foremost, thank you again for being our friends. We seriously and sincerely appreciate it more than you know. If you want more of us, you can now buy our brand spanking new album on iTunes. That's it, you still rawk:) And that is a very good thing.
I've been waiting five months to tell you this......our new EP Curtain of Stars is now available on our myspace page!! Hell yeah. That's it, you rawk!!
