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Brown, Don / Dan Reynolds: D=D [HARDCOVER BOOK w/ CD] (Sacred Realism)

The culmination of 15 years of work is this ambitious installment of Bryan Eubanks with Joe Foster, Dan Brown, and Dan Reynolds' sound project, in a CD of diverse compositions merging concrete, acousmatic sources and field recordings, with an accompanying 391 page book of letters, notes, aphorisms, scores, images, and commentary from the artists & contributors.
 

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Dan Reynolds-composer, performer

Don Brown-composer, performer

Bryan Eubanks-performer

Joe Foster-performer


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391 pages of letters, notes, aphorisms, scores, images, and commentary. 215 cm x155 cm

Label: Sacred Realism
Catalog ID: sr008
Squidco Product Code: 29781

Format: BOOK + CD
Condition: New
Released: 2019
Country: Germany
Packaging: 391 Page Hard Cover Book w/ CD
Mixed in Berlin, Germany, in 2018, by Joe Foster and Bryan Eubanks.

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"Presented by Sacred Realism Press, D=D is the culmination of 15 years of work and the latest and most ambitious installment of Bryan Eubanks and Joe Foster's Don (now Dan) Brown and Dan Reynolds' project. The book itself contains 391 pages of letters, notes, aphorisms, scores, images, and commentary from Brown and Reynolds, with contributions from related figures including Jenny Haniver, Tim Bradley, and of course Gwendolyn Lovequist and Jack Lunetti, offering furtive glimpses into the thoughts, work, and lives of these still under-recognized figures of contemporary American music. While it might be tempting to see D=D as epistolary speculative biography it also may call to mind the heteronyms of writers like Fernando Pessoa and especially Antoine Volodine. But make no mistake--D does equal D and everything is as it seems. The accompanying audio CD compiles Eubanks and Foster's interpretations of Brown and Reynolds' Holy and Old musics, respectively, bookended by two cassette recordings from the composers themselves, which should be of special appeal to listeners with an interest in never before exposed corners of American West Coast musical experimentation and iconoclasm."-Sacred Realism


391 pages of letters, notes, aphorisms, scores, images, and commentary. 215 cm x155 cm

Artist Biographies

Dan Reynolds is a sound artist, with releases on Rasbliutto Recordings, Urantia Records, Sacred Realism, and his own self-released productions.

-Squidco 3/13/2024

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Don Brown is a sound artist, with releases on Rasbliutto Recordings, Urantia Records, Sacred Realism, and his own self-released productions.

-Squidco 3/13/2024

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"Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, US) is a musician composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and idiosyncratic electronics; improvising in collaboration; and experimenting with spatial diffusion techniques. Publicly active since 2001, he's had numerous collaborations and presented his work internationally in a variety of settings."

-Sacred Realist (http://www.sacredrealism.org/bryaneubanks/)
3/13/2024

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"Joe Foster was born in California in 1972, lives in Seoul, and plays improvised music. His main collaborators have been J.P. Jenkins, Bryan Eubanks, Bonnie Jones (as the duo English), Hong Chulki, Choi Joonyong, Ryu Hankil, and Kevin Parks, but that's really not all. He's been in the groups Super Unity, Peevish, Don Brown and Dan Reynolds, and English, and has released CDRs, CDs, a USB, online stuff, and a cassette."

-Joe Foster Website (https://joefoster.wordpress.com/)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Sedge Wren 1:04

2. Levy Walk 2:55

3. Can't Love Time 9:20

4. Shasta 1:48

5. Damita Jo Freeman 9:51

6. Get Lost 2:08

7. Prunes, Tea, Steak, and Jell-O 7:41

8. Yeast, Swine, Loin 2:46

9. I'd Better Go Home or the Ducks Will Have Something to Eat 9:08

10. Kumquat 5:46

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Electro-Acoustic
Organized Sound and Sample Based Music
Field Recordings
Sound, Noise, &c.
Electroacoustic Composition
Trio Recordings
New in Experimental & Electronic Music

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