Music and video/film projects that aim to take new roads to familiar places and allow the sound to develop in those sweet spaces outside of the box....right where the spirit rocks.
http://home.earthlink.net/~dasku/mojahome
Music
Check out some of my music at my woefully under-updated website: http://home.earthlink.net/~dasku/id12.html
Television
Are you kidding?!?! I critique the crap out of this mindless pap! I'm also a Cultural Media Literacy educator and do in-depth discussion with my audiences and classes about television and cinema content, meaning, semiotics and social and political impact of the messages that dominate our cultural media landscape (or should I say landfill?!)
But there are great pieces of work out there...but most don't make it to prime time...but then, do any?!? Love to rap about this stuff. Check out my yahoo group, sauticml....be free to join....and check out my research paper available there, too..."Cultural Bias in Prime Time Television and Teenagers: Cultural Media Literacy for High School and Higher Education"
Books
"The Healing Wisdom of Africa" - Malidoma Some,
"The Healing Drum" - Yaya Diallo,
"Jonathan Livingston Seagull" - Richard Bach,
"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah" - Richard Bach,
"Animal Speak", "Animal Wise" - Ted Andrews,
"Sacred Sound" - Ted Andrews
Heroes
Those beings called....what is it now??...oh yeah - HUMANS.....like you.
playing all genres, electronic and acoustic instruments, with keyboard synth backup for additional percussion and melodic sounds/patches, musical accompaniment (have been playing/composing on keyboards for over 35 years)
About me: Digital/Acoustic Percussionist
Currently playing with Improvelocity,
an exciting improvisational music project,
...making music at the speed of sound!...
Playing and supporting all styles and configurations
from World Beat to New Orleans blues and jazz to Fusion,
Rock, Folk and everything in between!.......
Blasting off into sonic space with the
Roland HPD-15 HandSonic drum machine...
you've got to see and hear it to believe it -
more sound per square foot than anybody
(and a square foot is all we get in some gigs!)......
Don't miss a beat! (OK, that was corny!) Contact me today!......
SOUND HEALING: utilizing traditional and intuitive methods. Will be scheduling dates for a Sound Healing Study Group in Dedham at Discovering Music and Art in Dedham Square. Also attending open sound healing circle in Arlington at the Arlington Center (yoga and healing center) on the first sunday of every month, 7pm to 9:30pm, but come at 6:30 or so...sliding scale $5-15...........
Check out my homepage at: http://home.earthlink.net/~dasku/mojahome
..and here's a little RatKing news for you to ponder...no really....they are doing this....for real....really!
.. Disney Lab Unveils Its Latest Line Of Genetically Engineered Child Stars
Who I'd like to meet: Musicians, bands, dancers, performers, filmmakers and anyone with a musical vision or who wants someone with one to expand the idea of what rhythm and percussion can do.......
Less is sometimes more, but then I DO have all the bells and whistles....most literally!.......
I also am a full-fledged MIDI keyboardist/composer who has scored 30 second commercials, film, video and full-length feature production............
SOUND HEALING: Experienced sound healers who are looking for an opportunity to do some directed study with regard to frequency/pitch and chakra relationships.
Flip flops in the summer... Booties in the winter... My true purpose has yet to be revealed to me but I figure it is close to this concept... Our thoughts determine our responses to life. We are not victims of the world. To the extent that we control our thoughts, we control the world... So there it is! Life's meaning...To give!
Hey Ukum- :-) Great hanging with you tooooo!! It's TIME, time to get back on track with our musical journey..thanks for not giving up on me!! you are the best! :-) Coll-
