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halcyon presents The Bandwagon 009: Dennis DeSantis | Taimur Agha
halcyon presents The Bandwagon 009: Dennis DeSantis | Taimur Agha
Webcast LIVE from halcyon the shoppe
Wednesday April 14 | 7-9pm
tune in on dailysession.com
or hitch your horse at 57 Pearl Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn
halcyon and dailysession.com present
The Bandwagon
with master of ceremonies
Taimur Agha (BLK|Market Membership / halcyon | Brooklyn)
and guest
Dennis DeSantis (Kanzleramt/Cocoon | New York)
About Dennis DeSantis
Dennis DeSantis is a composer, sound designer, and percussionist based in New York City. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composition from the Eastman School of Music, and also holds degrees from Yale and Western Michigan University. His principal composition teachers have included Christopher Rouse, Evan Ziporyn, and Martin Bresnick, and he has studied percussion with John Beck and Judy Moonert as well as jazz drumming with Billy Hart.
DeSantis’s electronic music has appeared on a variety of labels including Global Underground, Cocoon, and Kanzleramt, and he has performed at clubs and venues throughout North America and Europe, as well as at the SONAR Festival in Tokyo. His original tracks and remixes regularly appear in the playlists of the world’s top DJs including such luminaries as Laurent Garnier, Funk D’Void, and Danny Howells (who selected two of his tracks for his “Miami” mix record in 2005.)
As a composer of concert music, DeSantis has been commissioned and performed by Alarm Will Sound, eighth blackbird, So Percussion, the Prism Saxophone Quartet, Opus 21, and Relâche, at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Recent highlights include a Carnegie Hall commission to arrange the music of Autechre for chamber orchestra.
DeSantis received a Grammy certificate in 2008, and has received numerous awards from ASCAP, including the ASCAP Foundation/Morton Gould Young Composer Award. He has also received two Howard Hanson Prizes and the McCurdy Prize from Eastman, as well as the Rena Greenwald Memorial Prize from Yale, the Theodore Presser Foundation Award, and fellowships from the Aspen, Norfolk, and Bowdoin music festivals.
From 2003 to 2005 DeSantis lived in Berlin, where he worked as a sound designer for Native Instruments. He is now Head of Documentation for Ableton.
About The Bandwagon
The Bandwagon is halcyon’s All New Old-Timey Record Review and Talent Show! Each and every Two hour ride on The Bandwagon begins with halcyon the shoppe’s own high-flying Techno honcho in a poncho… the mysterious and often delirious Taimur Agha of BLK|Market Membership! Thrill to Taimur’s death-defying DJ feats as he balances beats live without a net on the www in his round up of the latest and greatest ear-catching, ground-shaking musical marvels from the far corners of the globe. Then, turn your attention to the center ring for The Bandwagon’s main attraction!… Direct from the far off nether regions of Brooklyn we bring you an astonishing cavalcade of talent never before assembled on one program – musical magicians, masterful minstrels and mystifying midi-freaks alike will be unveiled to your shock and awe with in-depth interviews and exclusive featured performances.
The Bandwagon
The Bandwagon departs from halcyon the shoppe at 7pm on alternating Wednesdays. Hop on board at 57 Pearl St. in Dumbo, Brooklyn or crank that newfangled internet radiola up to dailysession.com to tune in from afar. Don’t be left out – join The Bandwagon today on facebook. If you should fall off The Bandwagon… fear not, downloadable / stream-on-demand archives and podcast versions of The Bandwagon are now live on dailysession.com and halcyondigi.com!
Upcoming Appearances on The Bandwagon
010 Wed April 28th WILLIE GRAFF (Circus Company / Cielo | NYC)
011 Wed May 12th ANTHONY PARASOLE (Deconstruct / Novel Sound | Brooklyn)
012 Wed May 26th NEUROTIC DRUM BAND aka Ulysses & John Selway (Wurst | NYC)
013 Wed June 9th NO REGULAR PLAY (Wolf+Lamb | Brooklyn)
014 Wed June 23 SPECIAL GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED
015 Wed July 7th RUNAWAY aka Jacques Renault & Marcos Cabral
016 Wed July 21st BRENNAN GREEN (Chinatown/Modal | NYC)
Past guests on The Bandwagon - all shows available for download: http://bit.ly/bandwagon_archive
001 - Wed Jan 6th DENNIS RODGERS (Robots | New York) | TAIMUR AGHA
002 - Wed Jan 20th DJ SPINOZA (The Bunker | Brooklyn) | TAIMUR AGHA
003 - Wed Feb 10th TAIMUR AGHA special 2hr. solo set
004 - Wed Feb 17th READE TRUTH (Planet E / White Label | New York) | TAIMUR AGHA
005 - Wed March 3rd ALEXI DELANO (AD LTD / Clink | Brooklyn) | TAIMUR AGHA
006 - Wed March 10th BILL PATRICK (Robots Berlin|NY) | TAIMUR AGHA
007 - Wed March 17th TAIMUR & FAHAD (Blkmarket Membership | NY)
008 - Wed March 31st NICK CHACONA (Hector Works / Mood Music | New York)
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