DBR Newsletter
04.22.10

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Calendar

April 24, 2010
The DOORS Benefit
Seattle, CA

April 27, 2010
TEDx Party
San Francisco, CA

April 28, 2010
Cisco Partner Conference
San Francisco, CA

May 14, 2010
The Fenway Center
Boston, MA

May 16-June 6, 2010
Atlantic Center for the Arts
New Smyrna Beach, FL

June 20, 2010
Symphony Hall
Boston, MA

Summer, 2010
Central Park SummerStage
New York, NY

See more dates

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Tour Highlight

DBR and DJ Spooky at Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010

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Blog

www.dbrmusic.com

"The music was involving, tonal and eminently accessible, steeped in the wash-rinse-repeat cycle of minimalism but sexed up considerably with hip-hop rhythms, jazz riffs and imaginative collaboration." -The Washington Post

On Woodbox Beats & Balladry (Thirsty Ear Recordings), his profusion of classical composing and performing talents are uniquely exposed. Echoing his own career, Woodbox Beats & Balladry contains elements of classical minimalism, dance club beats, traditional ballads, and thick distorted noise. Fitting coming from an artist who has performed with everyone from the Seattle and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, to the dancers Bill T. Jones and Savion Glover, to the composers Philip Glass and Derek Bermel, to DJs Radar, Scientific, and Spooky, to the jazz singer Cassandra Wilson, the pop-singer Lady Gaga, and the infamous 2 Live Crew.

Woodbox Beats & Balladry is aggressive, danceable, and fully notated. DBR's style and compositional process are reflected in his scoring of each and every track on the album; he uses a variety of compositional techniques and notation systems, including traditional, numerical, graphic, and prose-based notation. "Woodbox Beats & Balladry is an amalgam of what contemporary composers are doing and where contemporary classical music might be going," says DBR.

The core of the recording (and impetus for the album’s title) is DBR's signature custom 6-string amplified violin. While utilizing an array of extended techniques, effect pedals, and additional MAC-based processing, DBR's frequent aggressive, percussive lower-string bowing (an extra two strings are added to his instrument for bass lines) makes his violin a vital sonic and compositional force. Continue reading about the album

DBR with New England Conservatory Orchestra and The Boston Pops

May 14, 2010 at 7:30PM
Fenway Center at Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA
617-373-2000

Symphony for the Dance Floor composed and conducted by DBR, will be performed by New England Conservatory orchestra

June 20, 2010 at 3PM
Symphony Hall
301 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA
617-266-1492
Tickets: $20-30

DBR has been commissioned to compose and perform a new work with The Boston Pops Orchestra, conducted by Keith Lockhart, for its special Father's Day Concert at Symphony Hall. The concert is the center piece for his season-long residency with the Boston Pops, working with local schools and community organizations in the Boston area, and creating new works for the orchestra.