Caloric

Hi! Dailen here! I like Blue Objects. 🌀

I've been about a million things, and right now I'm a musician, DJ, sound artist, researcher, educator, and third-space organizer!

I think about spaces for people almost as much as I think about sounds, having helped create some local nice zones for people to connect in.

Currently I'm running a tiny sound school that lives in a slightly-less-tiny collectively-run venue / sound-focused community center. They are and .pvd , respectively.

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The slides you see now are things I've been doing or thinking about.

Points of interest:

[ Slide 2 ] : Some tools I'm using for the residency. Blue Objects are good luck.

[ Slides 7 & 10 ]: I love "The Heat" by Toni Braxton

[ Slide 13] : I've been looking into how instruments are built, with a keen interest in woodwinds! I've actually made a couple mangey flutes that I adore deeply. Technically a u-lock is kinda like a sideblown xun with a single tone hole.

[ Slide 16] : I've been playing with how the apps we use everyday might be sound sources in performance or grotesque fonts of inspiration. I have a favorite IG glitch that continues to play the audio from an ad over anything you look at in the advertisers page. In that video I'm looking for fun rhythms and accompaniments.

"Lately" is a long time.

Hey y'all!

There's a movie on Monday (tomorrow). "Paris is Burning", (1990) ! I've never seen it. I do documentary screenings at now because there's still so much for me to learn, and I figured we could do it together.

Also, I'm playing a show for the first time in a bit this weekend at .pvd . I like working on that community project with my friends a lot.

Oh, and here's what I've witnessed, loved, and thought about the pay few weeks.

I hope your heart is as warm as the weather these days.

:')