Bartok, Björk, books, The Books, camping, canoeing, David Byrne, Deerhoof, Frank Zappa, Fog, gamelan, games, Happy Apple, intelligent people who talk about things they love, Jaga Jazzist, James Joyce, Jeff Parker, Jim O'Rourke, Juana Molina, Mahler, The Microphones, Mirah, minimalism, modernism, neoromanticism, Prefuse 73, public radio, Q + not U, questions, sleeping in, snow, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Talk Talk, This American Life, Tortoise, the twin cities, etc.
Brendan Baker just recently decided on the pseudonym Mdash/Ndash, only looking for some over-romanticized significance in its meaning after the fact, as he is wont to do. Untimely ripped from the womb of Minneapolis where he sang and played guitar for It Was Just For You That Light Show and drums for the noise-pop collaboration Nicely Rusty Charlie Benny Harry Music Rehearsal, he attended Grinnell College in the womb of rural Iowa. There he studied English literature, composition, jazz and Javanese gamelan, played guitar in the post-punky Aradura and drums in the post-progish Language / Gesture / Misadventure. Finding his hands full as college came to an end, he withdrew to the womb of his apartment to make scraps of pop songs and electronic sound collages, most of which remain underdeveloped, unmixed and unreleased. He has recently run away to New York, disoriented but with the hope that when he grows up he will collaborate with a bunch of other people while continuing to make music of his own.
Despite how it may seem, he typically finds "post" prefixes, unnecessarily long band names, and poorly written extended metaphors kind of annoying. He also strongly dislikes writing in the third person, though apparently he is pretty comfortable with reproductive imagery. Thankfully he thinks Freud was full of shit.
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