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sketch

2012-01-22T18:22:00.000-08:00

notes

2012-01-22T18:21:00.000-08:00

recent songs

2012-01-22T18:00:00.000-08:00

Here we come 2012 by Dustin Wong
A tribe of slugs left me something by Dustin Wong

http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Dustin_Wong_-_Liberal_Christian_Youth_Ministry.mp3

Hokusai YingYang

2011-12-02T17:17:00.001-08:00

SKIES

2011-11-28T15:47:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hrWjkn_DHs

Co La Blanketing Marakesh

2011-08-06T05:16:00.000-07:00

was super fun working on this video with MAtt!

Co La - Blanketing Marakeesh from Co La on Vimeo.

illuminated triforce eyes

2011-07-28T15:19:00.000-07:00

federal reserve heiroglyph

2011-07-05T14:54:00.001-07:00

For What and What For? $1

2011-07-03T15:47:00.000-07:00

3? 13 stars, 16 cell embryo, the 3 stars that surround the eye...? what is it?

Thoughts #2

2011-06-25T15:06:00.000-07:00

I recently came upon a manga comic I used to read when I was a kid called, "Magical Taruruto" by Tatsuya Egawa, a true genius in the Manga world. Its pretty amazing what he got away making comics suited for 7 to 12 year olds. The story is about a boy who meets a cute demon creature that can use magic that lasts for 10 min. A lot of the characters' names are puns using Japanese Kanji Characters to fit their personality. In the climax of the whole series the main character,Honmaru Edojo, is fighting his big time rival, Harako Tsutomu (a similar rivalry like Vegeta and Goku in Dragon Ball) in a martial arts tournament to determine who is the strongest in their elementary school, lol.

What was interesting to note was that this character Harako Tsutomu's is a son of Nuclear Power Plant owner, he is rich, cocky and extremely gaudy. His kanji characters for his name goes 原子力、when put together and read in a different way, it reads, Genshiryoku, nuclear power.

During the tournament Honmaru gives in to his devil inside/shadow to obtain a stronger power and Harako uses electricity/(nuclear energy) on his side to fight. It seems like they are two negatives in conflict. Harako has special fighting moves such as, "Hyper Nuclear Power Plant Punch". Honmaru calls him a villain and gives him a beating. However there is a twist, where Harako, when he thought that he was the one generating this energy, he realizes that it was the energy around him or the aether that he was honing. In the comic this energy are entities called Pachi Pachi kun, they ask Harako to join them in this dance and become one with the energy around him. Once this is realized, Harako, who was fighting, motivated by envy and jealousy then transforms that motivation into love and defeats Honmaru.

I was researching about meditation, mostly about the mantra om mani padme hum, the six syllables for purifying negative energy and thoughts. That led me to Nilakantha Dharni, the 12 scrolls of the blue necked Lord of the world, Shiva. I wondered why he was called the blue necked Lord, then I found this video.

There are compounds like zeolite and fungi that can absorb this radioactive stuff. Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, they all used zeolite. Zeolite, just like Shiva.

Hindu deities have their own planets in the universe, In the Upanishads it says that when you pass you end up in the planet of that particular deity you worshiped in this realm.

There are some of us that believe in aliens, and right now in that research there are 11 types known. Out of the 11, 2 are benevolent. The Andromedans and Pleidians. These 2 types are trying to push human beings to be better, influencing us subconsciously because they can't be seen by the naked eye, because they exist on a higher vibrational astral realm.

Through meditation, one might get inspired or hear words of wisdom. Maybe its them?

We hear about crop circles, or messages.

Their is one crop circle that showed up in Portland Oregon in August 1990, as the Hindu symbol Sri Yantra.

This symbol is composed with numerous triangles, the main triangles, 4 ascending (Shiva/male) and 5 descending(Shakti/female), depicting Shiva and Shakti's unification, Anima and Animus, the creation of the Universe.

I think we can get in touch with this vibration. I am starting to intuitively believe binaural beats can. Binaural beats are when 2 tones that are slightly off from each other creates a new tone. When a frequency of 500hz and 490hz from two different sources collide a new fluxuating rhythmic tone emerges. The tone is the difference of the two, 10hz, which by itself is very hard to hear but with the two juxtaposing tones, it makes it easier. Just like the difference of the 4 and the 5 with Shiva and Shakti. When Buddhist monks hit their singing bowl you get a very similar sound. This simple sound is attempting to open a gate in your consciousness. With binaural beats the tone can sustain for a long time through loops making that gate open for a longer time, with a singing bowl the sound can diminish after a few moments,(I think thats why monks have to focus their consciousness for that moment of triggered sound). I want to get into this more, I'm starting to experiment with these tones now.

I want to leave now with this video from a scene from "the Abyss" that was deleted from the original theatrical release.

thoughts

2011-06-15T17:54:00.000-07:00

I happen to go on the wikipedia front page and the front page article was on Thich Quang Duc, the vietnamese monk who, in protest set himself on fire for the greater good. He passes, and he was cremated, but leaving his heart intact.

His heart becomes an important religious relic for the community.

I wondered what would be the opposite of self-immolation and the first thing that came to mind was self-birth. Whenever I have a phrase, question or a word that pops into my mind I google it and do an image search.

Frida Kahlo's "My Birth" came up and from the thumbnail image, the head of the newborn looked just like the heart of Thich Quang Duc.

I flipped Kahlo's painting to just show the similarity.

As a kid, whenever I had a calculator on hand I would always type in 25252525...
I really liked how it looked because, they were kind of reflections of each other and a neat pattern. I look at it now and there is a dance between the even number and the odd number. Their is a dance between the receptive/active and female/male.

As a kid i would look at the numbers of 252525...and see a mushroom cloud, if you just focus on the 5 first and then 2. When you focus on 2 first then 5 it is a vessel, a vase.

This reminded me of the tarot card Temperance, which is a card of healing, protection, purification.

This card tells you to chill, to heal. Temperance is 14, right after 13, the unnamed arcanum or death.

Since the earthquake and radiation leakage in Japan, I've been getting more interested into the darker things, the poisons and toxins of the universe.

The fox in the little prince says that everything essential is invisible,and I always read into that as love and spirit.

But these invisible things, they also include the poisons. Last night when I was looking at the leaves of the tree gently swaying on the branches with the gentle wind, surrounding that kind movement, is the other.

The radioactive material isn't consciously trying to harm us, it just exists. There are probably life forms in the universe that inhale that stuff and thrives on it.

Sometimes I wonder when humans took over radio waves, WIFI, 3G, 4G, etc what entity did we did we hurt or even destroy?

When we breathe, oxygen dies in us, and is reborn as carbon dioxide.

reborn, reborn, i hope

story #2

2011-06-09T16:29:00.000-07:00

As he walked through his normal routine he gazes up in to the sky and takes a breath in. As time slows down we enter his body, into his brain, getting closer and closer, in to the universe inside. In to the neuron we get closer and closer, the smaller things getting bigger and bigger. Their is a darkness for a while until we see a cluster of light, the universe within. Within it are galaxies stars and planets just like what we perceive what is outside our planet. One civilization within this universe, in a star system of this mind, is trying to make an expedition outside of their universe, the walking man's mind.

This civilization has developed technologically very quickly and catered to scientific curiosities without any compromise, to search for the truth.

A man responsible for this expedition gears up to leave on his craft. With a device that manipulates the speed of time and size of matter. He gears up his map of wormholes to navigate his way out of this universe.

He sets his coordinates and gears up to go through the first set of wormholes. He must navigate through different universes to find the edge of this space. This type of traveling has already been done in their history, the only thing left is to see what is beyond this multiverse.

The craft gears up and in incredible speed the world around him streams in incredible colors everywhere.

Then darkness.

Their is no feeling of movement. everything seems to feel like it has stopped, however the display on the craft is saying that they are moving way beyond light speed.

Total darkness comes to an abrupt end with a gleam of light in the distance going in and out.

As the light gets closer the man flies out of the walking man's eyeball like a droplet falling in to a glass of water but inverted.

Everything is bright and the feeling of gravity is reacquainted to the man of the inner universe.

He turns on his mass manipulator and he starts growing in size.

He confronts his host, telling him his situation that he must of come out of him through the universe that he holds inside.

He points to the sky and tells his host, this is another universe, lets try and see what's beyond it. The host and the inner universe man get in his space craft and lift off.

Again going through the millions of colors and darkness they fly out of another eyeball.

The two stood in front of its bewildered host wondering how many times must they go out to meet their god.

story

2011-06-09T15:28:00.001-07:00

We have proven that parallel universes exists, now we are attempting to bring our universe and one of our parallels to become perpendicular.

Me and my colleague through our research are ready for whatever may come our way. We realize that our reality and our parallel (soon to be perpendicular) may differ in the ratio of mass. We have come up with a device to be able to see the most microscopic of masses and to contract any gigantic mass into a visible form.

Its time for the experiment to begin, Scott and his colleague walk through a white hallway and into their lab.

Remember Mark, there maybe a chance that when we go perpendicular our realities between the parallel and here can easily switch, making us the observed and vice versa. Are you ready?

The match the x-y-z-0 coordinates to match their exact location and the parallel location on their computer.

The switch is on, and the generators are humming louder and louder.

The shift occurred quickly. In one moment the two of them sees themselves, in a repetitive mandala with the pattern of their given state in infinite numbers. As the loop came and swept them in as this is felt, an internal feedback was felt.

Through this chaos and deliriousness they rush to look through their micro-nano-pico-scope, as their eyes meet the scope they see a tiny city and as they get closer a building reminiscent of their own.

With their nano-tweezers they try to pry open the roof of the building.

And at that moment a huge explosion occurs above them. Their ceiling comes crashing down and a long metal rod comes sliding through. The sky is bare and the long metal rod seems to go up endlessly.

EUROPE HERE I COME!!!

2011-04-04T18:53:00.000-07:00

I am extremely excited to tour Europe! WEEEeeeeee!
DUSTIN WONG
09 Apr 2011 FR Dijon Festival Kill your Pop / Le Consortium
10 Apr 2011 FR Lyon Grnd Zero w/ Api Uiz
11 Apr 2011 DE Leipzig Kafic (ex-Paris Syndrom)
12 Apr 2011 DE Berlin Madame Claude
13 Apr 2011 DE Kassel A.R.M.
14 Apr 2011 CZ Prag Final Club
15 Apr 2011 UK Liverpool Mello Mello w/ Mi Ami
16 Apr 2011 UK Hull The Adelphi
17 Apr 2011 UK Leeds Brudenell Social Club w/ Runners, Circuit Ben
18 Apr 2011 UK London The Lexington
19 Apr 2011 FR Paris La Maroquinerie w/ Deerhoof
20 Apr 2011 CH Geneva Cave 12 / Ecurie de l'Ilot 13
21 Apr 2011 CH Lausanne Le Bourg
22 Apr 2011 FR Feyzin L'Epicerie Moderne w/ Deerhoof
23 Apr 2011 NL Amsterdam Sonic Connections festival w/ Yuri Landman
24 Apr 2011 LU Luxembourg Carré Rotondes
25 Apr 2011 FR Metz Le Rubis
26 Apr 2011 FR Reims Veranda
27 Apr 2011 FR Bordeaux Novo Local
28 Apr 2011 FR Nantes Pannonica w/ Luyas, Few My Nephew
29 Apr 2011 FR Tours Venue opening / Le Temps Machine
30 Apr 2011 FR Cherbourg La Terra Trema festival

Infinite Love Song Titles

2011-01-11T09:12:00.000-08:00

Hello I've run into some people that have been wondering if there are song titles for the 15 tracks for the album, and actually there is!

here are the titles

Infinite Love A

1.
Our Souls
2.
by love
3.
together knit,
4.
cemented,
5.
mixed in one;
6.
one hope,
7.
one heart,
8.
one mind,
9.
it is heaven on earth again
10.
The feeling heart,
11.
the melting eye,
12.
infinitely converging
13.
sweetest pleasures while we live;
14.
solid comfort when we die
15.
beyond the bounds of time and space, look forward to that heavenly place

Infinite Love B

1.
Our Souls
2.
by love
3.
together knit,
4.
cemented,
5.
mixed in one;
6.
one hope,
7.
one heart,
8.
one mind,
9.
shine upon us
10.
to make our graces grow
11.
from on high,
12.
converging infinitely
13.
sweetest pleasures while we live;
14.
solid comfort when we die
15.
beyond the bounds of time and space, look forward to that heavenly place

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

2010-12-24T13:09:00.000-08:00

Matt Papich and I recorded two tracks for our 2nd Annual Holiday Gift.
We recorded a version of Blue Moon and Sleep Walk.

You can download it here

Happy Holidays and enjoy!
:)

SOME REVIEWS of Infinite Love!!

2010-10-30T09:04:00.000-07:00

The sections of “Infinite Love,” a continuous 40-minute composition, tend to start with plucked arpeggios and expand, sometimes taking on a melody, sometimes rippling in ever-wider arcs, sometimes melting into feedback and echo. The music is always heading somewhere promising -Jon Pareles, New York Times

It’s extremely technical stuff, marvelously fast, and so rhythmically precise that it generates momentum with ease, and many of the songs are notably driving for music without any traditional percussion on hand. But Wong’s compositions are also melodious, groovy, and relatively concise, as liable to inhabit your hips and heart as they are to tickle your brain. When he aims high, soaring, strawberry-hued leads rear up from the unraveling tangles of arpeggios and things get airborne quickly. In his more wistful moments, Wong writes and plays with a tenderness that’s featherlight, each track exuding warmth in generous measure.
-Evan Burrows, Tiny Mix Tapes

Infinite Love’s strength is its lack of presumptuousness. It doesn’t try to blow you away with technical skill; instead, Wong’s abilities become clear in a more subtle way, as he consistently coaxes new and fresh sounds from his guitar throughout the albums’ running times. Infinite Love is the kind of record that people will love in an appreciative, grinning sort of way, sidling up to it in the same sense that you might greet that person at a party who offers no existential conversation, but cheers you up on a Friday night. Those things are important to have around, too.
-Corey Beasley, Pop Matters

"Infinite Love is one of those rare records that could only have been made using modern technology, but that already sounds timeless...Wong's trance-inducing cyclical guitar runs even manage to recall one of his former band's biggest influences, the mighty Boredoms, in their early Noughties psychedelic shamen phase.High praise indeed, but a fair comparison; there aren't many bands – and even fewer solo artists – who can make music this rapturous, or use repetition to such blissfully hypnotic effect." -Michael Dix, The Quietus

The genius lurking beneath Infinite Love, however, is in the presentation. A film is included, and much like a Choose Your Own Adventure novella, listeners are able to pair sight and sound to create their own unique journey. Wong is putting his art school background to excellent use, challenging the mind through the power of positivity rather than destroying it through negativity. Infinite Love is pliable—listeners are able to construct their own vision through Wong’s epic scope. Technological interactivity has never been this pleasurable (get your mind out of the gutter). -Justin Spicer, 90.3FM KEXP Seattle

Tour dates For now!

2010-10-28T17:53:00.000-07:00

updates coming soon!

so psyched to tour w/ avocado happy hour and holy ghost party! weeeeeeeeeee!!

Infinite Love日本盤

2010-10-15T00:31:00.000-07:00

日本に住む人こんにちは！

今回Infinite Loveを日本でのPlancha Recordsから日本盤を出しました。

日本盤はボーナスにEPとボーナストラックが３曲ついています

どうか聞いて楽しんで下さい！

よろしくです！

ここで購入できます

Japan

2010-10-10T19:56:00.000-07:00

Just arrived back to Japan! It feels great to be back and to be at my parent's house. I woke up around 4am this morning due to jetlag so I killed some time recording a little simple song. here you go!

Acoustic tokyo by Dustin Wong

Infinite Love is OUT!

2010-10-05T19:26:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody Infinite Love is officially released today through Thrill Jockey Records! I'm really excited! I'll be in Japan the next week playing some shows. Oh and remember that in the LP there are golden tickets for Infi-Net Love, for private Skype Concerts. there are 12 in all :)

こんにちは！今日Infinite LoveがThrill Jockeyからリリースされました！凄く楽しみで興奮気味です。来週、東京で４回ほどライブを行います。あとLPのバージョンではInfi-Net LoveというSkypeでのプライベートコンサートを得る事が出来る切符が１２枚ほど隠れています（”u”)

東京でのライブ
１０／１１Lush Shibuya http://www.contrarede.com/event/moon3.html
１０／１２O-nest Shibuya http://shibuya-o.com/nest/2010/10
１０／１５Echo Shibuya http://echo-shibuya.com/
１０／１６Nanahari http://www.ftftftf.com/

time to quit tetris

2010-09-30T15:59:00.000-07:00

So i've been a secret ocd tetris addict, i finally made it to grand master rank and i think its time to call it quits...!

実は影でテトリス中毒者なんです、やっとグランドマスターになれたんだけどもうこれで辞めるしかないでしょう。。。！

shea stadium, last supper festival

2010-09-16T06:54:00.000-07:00

playing a show tonight at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn, with Dan Friel, James Ferraro, Black Actor, and Gamut.

Also playing a show again day after tomorrow at 3rd ward for Last Supper Festival.

here is a video flyer they made for it :)

今夜BrooklynのShea Stadiumでライブしまーす！Dan Friel, James Ferraro, Black Actor,と Gamutと対バンします。明後日の土曜日も３rd Wardでラストサパーフェスティバルというフェスにいきます。食べ物からアートからいろんな物があるみたいだから楽しみ★

tomorrow @soft house (monday) w/ Greg Davi

2010-09-12T08:51:00.000-07:00

playing a show at soft house tomorrow with Greg Davis&Ben Vida and Ami Dang!
明日ソフトハウスでGreg Davis&Ben VidaとAmi Dangライブします！

Infinite Love video preview :)

2010-09-03T13:11:00.001-07:00

Dustin Wong - Infinite Love preview from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

interview for WUAG

2010-08-26T19:49:00.000-07:00

i did an interview for greensbro north carolina's radio station WUAG a little while ago and they just put up the interview on their website :)

you can read the interview here

少し前にノースカロライナの町グリーンズブロのラジオ局WUAGとインタビューを行いました、彼らのサイトにインタビューが載ってるよ：）

インタビューはここ

show at wind up tonight

2010-08-21T11:43:00.001-07:00

Going to play a show with Jason Urick, Bel Air and Martin Kasey, tonight at Windupspace. Show starts at 10:30pm!

i'm playing a slew of new material tonight :)

c ya there :)

Infinite Love coming out on Thrill Jockey!

2010-08-09T07:48:00.000-07:00

I didn't know when to break the news but I'm going to release Infinite Love through Thrill Jockey Records! I'm so excited to work with them, i jumped on my bed a few times when i got the news. Tortoise, Aki tsuyuko, Boredoms, Nobukazu Takemura, and so many musicians that i used to listen to and getting inspired from, its such an honor.

The album itself is going to be a 2 disc album with a DVD. The album gets two versions, the two versions both start the same, but around the 20 minute mark the two shifts directions and it changes the musical journey. They are kind of like a twin brother and sister. At the end of the piece they come back together.

The DVD is a video my friend Andrew Shenker and I worked on. It is a visual piece that aides the whole album. We are pretty happy with it and it should be good watching it a little buzzed.

The art for the album was done by my friend Evan Lalonde, He took photos and video stills from the piece used on the dvd and using an overhead projector layering different images together to compose a drawing we see above. I'm really happy how it looks!

Infinite Love will be out in mid October

このニュースをいつブログにアップしようかなと思ったんだけど。。。Infinite LoveをThrill Jockeyからリリースする事が決まりました！一緒に仕事をする事が凄く楽しみでベッドの上を子供みたいに飛び回っちゃいました。Tortoise, Aki Tsuyuko, Boredoms, Nobukazu Takemuraなどもう中学、高校だった頃から尊敬するミュージシャンがたくさんいて、本当に光栄です。

アルバムはCD二枚組でDVD付き。二枚のCDはアルバムの二つのバージョンで後半から違う方向へ行くというアイデアで音楽の旅を変えるていう感じで。双子の弟と妹みたいな感じで見ています。アルバムの最後には二人とも一緒に同じ曲でフィナーレした。

DVDの映像の方は友達のAndrew Shenkerと一緒に作って、アルバムの４０分間の映像です、少しサイケ雰囲気になって映像を見ればもっと面白いかも；）

アルバムのアートは友達のEvan Lalondeが作ってくれましたDVDの為の映像のスチルをつかって奇麗な絵を描いてくれました。上に見える絵がEvanが描いてくれました。素敵出来上がりでうれしいです！

Infinite Loveは１０月の中旬にリリースされます！

LOST and Kruatrock?! who knew??

2010-07-31T15:16:00.000-07:00

Hexagon tonight

2010-07-31T12:47:00.000-07:00

playing at the hexagon tonight with Jonathan Badger, the water and expanding man!

今夜Jonathan Badger、the water、Expanding manとライブします！

EVERLASTING LIFE tonight

2010-07-29T06:31:00.000-07:00

i'll be playing a show tonight at Everlasting Life in DC with Colin Crowe, Quiet Hooves, Bird Names, and Hume!

show starts at 6:30pm

今夜ワシントンDCのEverlasting Lifeでライブします、Colin Crowe, Quiet hooves, Bird Names, Humeと対バン！

whartscape ponytail

2010-07-28T19:40:00.000-07:00

Whartscape

2010-07-21T09:20:00.000-07:00

I will be playing Whartscape Friday Night at 1:30AM (technically Saturday) at the H&H building, hope to see you there!

今週の金曜日の夜にWhartscapeで演奏します、午前１：３０（実際は土曜日）H&Hとういうビルで行うよ。シーユー！

surf, thong, fist pump, clap

2010-07-19T06:49:00.000-07:00

ponytail at siren fest ;)

WICV MICA RADIO tommorow

2010-07-15T18:36:00.000-07:00

I'll be playing at artscape in the charles st. midway section. The set will be streaming from MICA's WICV internet radio :)

http://radio.mica.edu/

Beyond Say starts at 7Pm
and good man, Jason Urick will play at 8pm
i'll play at 9pm.

tune in if you're free!

明日、アートスケープでCharles st.の橋のあたりでライブをします。このライブはMICAのインターネットのラジオステーションでストリーミングするよ ('u')Y

beyond sayは７時
優しいおじさんJason Urickは８時
で僕は９時にはじまるよ
暇だったらチェックしてね!

http://radio.mica.edu/

ahaha

2010-07-11T03:45:00.000-07:00

7/11 Brookyln Show at Secret Project Robot

2010-07-09T13:34:00.001-07:00

I'm playing a show this sunday at secret project robot! I'm really excited to see Noveller and Blues!
この日曜日にBrooklynでライブしまーす！NovellerとBluesを見るのが本当に楽しみ！

to be there, is beautiful

2010-07-08T08:10:00.000-07:00

spiritual sex

2010-07-08T07:47:00.000-07:00

CURRENT SPACE RE-OPEN

2010-07-07T10:44:00.000-07:00

Andrew Shenker and I worked on a video called "Mise en Scene" a few years a go. Its going to be a part of a DVD called "Baltimore vs the World"

Curated by: Michael Benevento, Hans Petrich, and Monique Crabb

Participants:

Baltimore: Rahne Alexander / Mark Brown / Phil Davis / Jason Dove / Joel Fernando + Future Islands / Dina Kelberman / The King of Russia + Madagascar / Katherine Mansdorfer / Allen Moore / Jenny Mullins / Lotfy Nathan / Aaron Oldenburg / Matt Porterfield / Robbie Rackleff / Alex Roper / Showbeast / Snacks / Wide Angle Youth Media / Erin Womack / Dustin Wong + Andrew Shenker / Fred Worden

World: Marci Branagan / Paul Donoghue / Tamara Erde / Joseph Farbrook / Dave Greber / Juan Jose Herrera / Tamar Hirshl / Karin Hofko / Shon Kim / Ellen Lake / Adrian Lohmüller / Mary Magsamen + Stephan Hillerbrand / Adam Montegut / Shalo P / David Politzer / Joanna Raczynska / Leslie Supnet / Frank Zadlo

The opening is this Saturday, should be fun!

友達のAndrew Shenkerと数年前にMise En Sceneという映像作品を作ったんだ。"Baltimore vs the World"っていうDVDに作品を提供する事になりました！

オープニングは今週の土曜日、楽しみにしてるよ！

last night's show at Don Pedros :)

2010-06-26T18:30:00.000-07:00

YES!!!

2010-06-25T06:21:00.000-07:00

Japan Wins!
日本勝利！yay!

What is Essential

2010-06-23T15:41:00.000-07:00

this makes me cry
これ見ると泣くんだよね

The Fox
"Its only with the heart that one can see clearly, what's essential is invisible to the eye."

キツネ
「心でみれば清らかに見える、本質的に大切な物は目では見えないんだ。」

Thunder Clouds

2010-06-23T10:42:00.001-07:00

last evening there were enormous clouds forming towards the south. I took my video camera and filmed the moving clouds. I saw numerous faces, bodies emerging.

昨夜、南の方から大きな雨雲が空を取り囲むように僕の目に神秘的な光を照らしてくれた。ビデオカメラを屋根に運んで、感で、うごく、雲をテープに焼き、いろんな顔、体が、雲から、出てくる。

PRETTY BOY

2010-06-19T14:55:00.000-07:00

went to pretty boy with friends and swam, i am healed
pretty boyという湖で友達と水泳、癒された

6/25th IMPOSE PRESENTS

2010-06-17T06:48:00.000-07:00

i will be going up to new york again next week to play a show with ecstatic sunshine, air waves, weekends and prince rama!

it should be a really fun show!

来週またNYに行ってきます、ecstatic sunshine, air waves, weekendsとprince ramaとライブをするのが楽しみ！
いいライブになると思う！

SUNSUNSUN

2010-06-07T08:41:00.000-07:00

Caleb Moore from Lands and People from Baltimore Just put out a Compilation on his Wigflip Records. I am really happy to be a part of it!

A lot of amazing tracks on this compilation, that blends from one track to the next

you can download the comp here

there are some amazing triumphant moments, here, Rod hamilton's Snowden was a fist pump in the air

Lands and PeopleのCaleb MooreがWigFlip RecordsでSUNSUNSUNというコンプをリリースしました。このコンプに曲を提供できてすごくうれしい！もうステキな曲がいっぱいあるしトラックからトラックへのクロスフェードのブレンドがすごく気持ちいい。

コンプのダウンロードはこちら

Rod HamiltonのSnowdenを聞いた時はこぶしを天へのばしたよ、ピューン！このコンプ勝利

Its officially Summer! listening to the killer whales!

2010-06-02T15:34:00.000-07:00

woo its summer! was walking around today jamming on killer whales!They're a super under rated band from chicago, they remind me of everything thats happy!

いやあー夏ですな！今日散歩してKiller Whalesを聞いて本当に気持ちよかったー。シカゴのバンドでもう超ハッピー、あんまし知られてないけど、いいバンドだあー

裸nudey

Chicken Head ニワトリ頭

2010-06-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

Bilingual＿バイリンガル

2010-05-30T16:00:00.000-07:00

from this post on i would like to post in japanese and english, my japanese is getting pretty rusty these days so i'm going to try to keep up with it by posting in japanese too :)

これから日本語と英語の二カ国語でブログを提供したいと思います、最近アメリカでの生活によって日本語を喋らなくなってしまい、ザビだらけになってきたのでこれでなんとか日本語をメインテイン（英語じゃん）するように頑張ります。よろしく！（'u’)Y

LO (st) L (ightsaber)

2010-05-30T15:34:00.000-07:00

OMG, i dunno why but i lol at this everytime i see, i think the way the star wars theme creep up is totally amazing. im a huge lost fan too, so i think thats why.

SHOWS!

2010-05-22T15:53:00.001-07:00

im playing a few shows this week,

i'm playing with High Places and Rob Lowe tomorrow at the Ottobar (SUN) and the day after at DC9 (MON)

I'm also playing my first New york City show this Thursday at Cake Shop. I'm opening a really fun 5th anniversary show at the cake shop they made a really cute little promo video too!

READY MADE

2010-05-13T15:21:00.000-07:00

found this video when i was working on a video and i was looking for how to make a seamless loop and i found this guy right here

its almost like Duchamp's ready made

though rather than the wheel turning its a cap on a iron. I was internally laughing out loud.

kinda beautiful huh?

Let it Go

2010-04-08T07:32:00.001-07:00

this is my second release through WTRCLR records. Its in cassette tape format. I'm really excited and Justin Kelly who owns label did a great job with the tape, looks green! These songs were written between Seasons and Infinite Love. I'm really psyched that Justin wanted to put it out. you can buy it here. There is also going to be full mp3 download too soon. if you like the mp3s consider purchasing the object :) thanks!

Hosono Haruomi

2010-04-06T19:52:00.001-07:00

I love watching YMO videos or Haruomi Hosono videos on you tube. I found this one Quiz Show all about YMO trivia and I came upon this.

The Question was:
When Hosono was active in YMO He said, "Techno isn't about sound it is about _______"

Answer: Consciousness

PEAKING LIGHTS

2010-03-25T16:29:00.000-07:00

this is an awesome video of aaron coyes and indra dunis showing their circut bended sound machines! aaron and i went to the same film school in california and he was a huge, huge influence on me. before i left for baltimore he burned me a mountain of cd-rs that included awesome bands like silver apples, la dusseldorf, can, faust, goblin and a bunch of great psychedelic albums that shaped me musically.

i remember him showing me some of his 16 band equalizers turned into tone generators and it blew my mind. an incredibly kind and positive man he is. :)

Titus Andronicus: The Monitor

2010-03-15T20:21:00.000-07:00

i happened to paroozle around pitchfork and i happened to find the documentary for titus' 2nd album The Monitor. i was one of their guest guitarist for their song the battle of hampton roads. they came to my house with their sound engineer kevin mcmahon. nolen from double dagger came and also andy and jenn from wye oak, it was so much fun. we had a pizza party and i was getting pretty drunk recording those tracks for them since they bought a case of a natty boh for the recording session.

good times, good times.

IN C

2010-03-15T20:17:00.000-07:00

last friday i had the pleasure to be a part of the In C ensemble at soft house. It was a wonderful experience, i felt a surge of warmth and closing my eyes felt so many sounds going through me.

thank you soft house!!

in (:

you can find the link to the recording here

Rapdragons at mobtown studios

2010-03-12T14:03:00.000-08:00

Rapdragons asked me a few days ago if i wanted to play a song with them last night at Mobtown studios. It was super fun! They sampled Ponytail's 'Late for School' from Ice Cream Spiritual and called it 'Early for Work' :D

The space itself was really cute, a small space with a giraffe patterned rug for the bands to play on.

Mobtown is run by Matt and Emily Leffler Schulman they are married and they are gonna go on a vacation to Costa Rica soon, they are psyched about that!

Sam from Future Isalands was there too and he rapped with them which was really crazy to see, that guy is verbally talented, seriously. my mouth is like a crippled scarecrow, I can't rap for crap!

to listen to the recordings go here

my favorite song they did that night was bigwams, they have such fresh yet simple beats with old school rapping like de la soul, it was awesome!

Square defining a Circle, Infinite Love

2010-03-10T15:11:00.001-08:00

i just finished recording and i'm excited yet i don't know what to do as of yet. i'm definitely thinking about asking labels to see if they are interested yet this project has gotten a lot more involved than i thought it was going to be. it started out as a 20 minute piece now its about 40 and when i thought i was done, i came up with a new idea where the piece has two versions each version beginning the same and in the middle splitting off in a different direction then coming back at the end.

my friend Andy Shenker and i have been working on the video too so its getting ambitious! we want the images to go together with both version of the record. hoping that this experiment's different sounds and songs can re-contextualize the imagery of the video. i'm really curious on how its going to change.

this is the rough idea for the cover

tomorrow wind up space Novo fest

2010-03-05T12:53:00.000-08:00

i just got asked to play novo fest tomorrow since one of the bands won't be able to make it. I'm pretty excited, novo stands for no vocals, i meet the criteria!

the show starts at 10pm see you if you can make it
\('0')/ woo!

Jodorowsky

2010-02-28T19:59:00.001-08:00

this guy is my hero for sure

must post

2010-02-28T04:39:00.000-08:00

i feel bad for not posting recently...

In C is going to be on 3/12th saturday!

I recently played at my friend Heidi's class she teaches at nursery school too, that was really interesting. All the kids were great, curious, rambunctious, totally charming. i had them play my guitar and my pedals, really fun. most of the boys liked the distortion pedal.

IN ((C

2010-02-02T08:04:00.000-08:00

yaaaas! I'm very excited about this. About 30 musicians are going to perform Terry Riley's in c! Its been a blast rehearsing, hearing all the different instruments. a saxophone sounds so round, felt like my guitar was drawing a line right through it.

IN (;

Putty Hill by Matt Porterfield

2010-01-27T13:21:00.000-08:00

Here is a trailer for Matt Porterfield's Putty Hill! I'm really flattered that he used some of my music for the trailer! I'm going to go see it tomorrow! looking forward to it! :D

PUTTY HILL trailer from Matt Porterfield on Vimeo.

Aural States Fest

2010-01-22T07:52:00.000-08:00

I'm playing the Aural States Fest at sonar next week! It should be a fun time, this is going to be their last time doing it since Greg Szeto is moving out of Baltimore soon. You should come if you're not doing anything.

Also will be performing Terry Riley's In C early February. Will post about it really soon!

CUTSEY PIE

2010-01-16T07:01:00.001-08:00

RASCALLY

2010-01-13T00:14:00.001-08:00

PERVY

2010-01-12T23:54:00.000-08:00

instore show at warszawa, tokyo

2010-01-11T22:31:00.000-08:00

Merry XMAS Everyone!

2009-12-24T23:25:00.000-08:00

matthew papich and i wrote a couple of xmas inspired songs a couple of weeks ago, please enjoy!

get it here!

WAT?

2009-12-23T15:16:00.000-08:00

wait wat?

my friend utako's christmas party!

2009-12-20T18:50:00.000-08:00

angel and our friends from france came along to go to utako's xmas party and it was really great. Low key atmosphere, friendly people and delicious foods with a good amount of alcohol are great elements for a good time.

Mr. takeyama a college friend of utako streamed my set live while i was playing on ustream. i have never heard of it until angel showed me and it blew my mind! you can stream video live on the internet! its crazy.

here are some archives of the show

bmore musically informed top 20

2009-12-16T21:34:00.000-08:00

whoa! bmore musically informed put my album in their top 20 albums of 2009 from baltimore! yeaaaaa! :D

thanks dudes!

check out the the rest of the list here,

http://www.bmoremusic.net/2009/12/top-20-balimore-albums-of-2009.html

Delicate Steve

2009-12-14T12:14:00.000-08:00

oh man oh man, ponytail just played a show at floristree with video hippos, ecstatic sunshine and double dagger and it was so much fun! We all took turns playing short sets in two rounds with wonderful videos in intermission. The amazing thing was that the whole thing started around 4pm! The whole show was done by 7pm :o

At the show a man by the name of steve marion from new jersey came up to me and handed me a cd-r of his music and i put it on and its fantastic! We've chatted before briefly before a ponytail show in new york. His project is called Delicate Steve and it looks like he's going to be releasing his album tommorow! its called wondervisions, check it out! he should be uploading his songs very soon.

http://www.myspace.com/delicatesteve

Jordan Bernier's Skate Videos

2009-12-07T11:03:00.000-08:00

my friend Jordan Bernier who loves skating and is an incredible print maker and have been making skate videos! I got really excited that he used a couple of my songs in his videos. I love his style of skating too, so casual B)

Tyler and Jordan Skate a Bench from Jordan Bernier on Vimeo.

Jake Sam Jordan Steve Skate from Jordan Bernier on Vimeo.

Infinite Love

2009-11-26T17:48:00.000-08:00

hellooo,

so i've been playing some music by myself and i've been calling it 'infinite love' because of a little shamanic trip i had on my birthday. but i'm in the process of recording it right now, and i put an excerpt of it on my myspace page. its not the whole thing but it was fun panning stuff to get a wide stereo feel. Live its all coming from one speaker but its really strange how frequencies can bounce around in a room and have a wide stereo effect, anyways i digress.

you can listen to it here!

myspace.com/dustinclarence

record review by brainwashed!

2009-11-26T02:14:00.001-08:00

oh man! brainwashed reviewd my record 'seasons' I was so flattered! I was so impressed with the writing too! yay!

here is the article

awesome

2009-11-23T19:22:00.001-08:00

Chinese Show

2009-11-17T07:41:00.000-08:00

Today I'm playing a show at Open Space with three bands from China! I'm psyched! I'm really curious what its going to be like! yaaaaaaa!

Car sick Cars

Xiao he

and

P.K.14

2009-11-17T07:33:00.000-08:00

short video of me playing at jimmy joe roche's mirkwood show in baltimore, yay

gaarden records compilation "Peeling"

2009-10-15T12:46:00.001-07:00

yeeees! its crazy im making two posts in one day! today i got some news from tony lambright who has a record label called gaarden records. he's putting together a compilation called peeling and i contributed a song called breezy comfort. i can't wait to see it! its going to be coming out soon to a limited 100 copies.

you can get it soon at the gaarden records website, www.gaardenrecords.com

k bye!

okay this is it!

2009-10-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

i apologize for this long interval of time, mostly to angel for she has been telling me to update my blog and i haven't at all! gah! so i'm gonna be updating more often from now on. i think i'm starting to understand that blogs don't have to be so serious it can be a casual update of hellos and how are ya's. but i do have some update that is very delayed and due!

ponytail is writing some new songs, i released a solo record called "seasons" through wildfire wildfire and im totally psyched!!

I'm playing a couple of shows in baltimore this month, tomorrow (10/16th, jason urick's record release show) at the hexagon and on the 24th at soft fest!

ok! more updates sooon!

Matthew Papich!

2009-03-01T15:33:00.000-08:00

This second post is about my good friend Matt Papich. I met him at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Matt is a very jovial, intense and intelligent character. When Yutaka left to go an exchange program in France I started playing music with Matt. The way he strummed and played the guitar was as if he was constantly in fast forward. He definitely woke my sleeping rapid strumming spirit. It was interesting to see the differences between Onsen and Ecstatic Sunshine. Onsen being relatively relaxed and Ecstatic Sunshine being very energetic which is quite different for a guitar duo. Just like the way he strummed he listened to music intensely. I could see his fast strumming transforming into rapid research taking him further in to the new age. Matt sent me some absolutely amazing work recently for his upcoming album. The sounds that he emulates De-constructed imagined spaces, and sublime beauty. He was also part of the deathset for a while and works on an awesome record label called wildfire wildfire. He's also releasing a split 7" with Lucky Dragons, its really good!

wave_chop_early_version - Ecstatic Sunshine

This is an early version of wave chop that Matt and I were working on before we recorded Freckle Wars. We really tried to go at it strumming as fast as we can!

Felt Flag - Ecstatic Sunshine

Felt flag was part of the Living EP and the sound was shifting to a more expansive sound working with the actual room, delay and reverb.

Herrons - Ecstatic Sunshine

Herons was a track from the album WAY which was the one song I was not a part of. Listen to how he has shifted his song structure from a horizontal structure to a more vertical structure. Using sound as a jet pack to fly higher in to space.

Dunk - Ecstatic Sunshine

This is from his latest work that'll be released soon, which is going to be called Yesterday's Work. I was blown away when he sent me his rough mixes and he told me it was okay for me to have one track on this post. It sounds like he is back on the ground searching intently for something more specific, micro and beautiful. I'm really excited about his new musical direction.

Yutaka Houlette!

2009-02-04T12:48:00.000-08:00

Yutaka Houlette is my first post and first person I would like to share to anyone and everyone who sees this. He's a really close friend and a real inspiration to me. We went to school together most of elementary, middle, high and college. He has an incredible sensibility for poetry and sublime wit. His music and art pieces reflected his personality and ideas so well. We played music together and we started a guitar duo in college around 2002 and that is pretty much how I learned how to play guitar and write songs. We would gruel and gruel to get to a place we would both commonly agreed to. It was a wonderful experience. We called our duo "Onsen" which means hot spring in Japanese. It was kind of an idea of tourists from countries from all over the world sharing a bath mixing their sweat in to a literal melting pot. We wanted our music to sound like that. I want to share some of his beautiful music and some things we did as onsen. Right now Yutaka is getting a masters degree in teaching art to middle - high school kids. I think he's going to be an amazing teacher.
Yutaka was also the drummer for Tall Grass for a little bit. I'll talk about tall grass in a post in the future!

This is a song he sent me pretty recently its really beautiful. I can hear the moisture.

biking in the rain - yutaka
here are a couple of Onsen songs we wrote together

08enkai - onsen

08sauna mizuburo - onsen

This is a jam yutaka and I did last year in June. there is a telephone ringing during the jam, just to let you know, its not your phone!

june jam - Yutaka and dustin