INFOBLOG: Vodoo Violin

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From: "DBR" <DBR@mail.vresp.com>

Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:04:30 +0000

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Subject: DBR Official Newsletter 12.30.09

DBR Official Newsletter 12.30.09

Here is a recap of the last few months as well as what's coming up next. Thank you for all your support and we wish you a very happy turn of the decade.

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cusp conference	DBR & Kaki King	*Othello*

DBR and Elan Vytal aka DJ Scientific were featured artists in this year's cusp conference in Chicago, IL, a conference about "the design of everything" bringing together greatest thinkers and innovators in the arts, sciences, technology, business, design and government.	DBR wrote a song for Hewlett-Packard featuring DBR & THE MISSION and guitarist Kaki King, who was named a "Guitar God" by Rolling Stone Magazine. The song, Unstoppable, was performed live in Las Vegas and is available as a limited edition free download here.	DBR was commissioned by OBIE Award-winning director, Bob McGrath, to create a musical score for a contemporary rendition of Shakespeare's classic, Othello, portrayed as the captain of a basketball team. The show premiered at Virginia Tech in Nov 2009.
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Off & Running at IFC	New Clef Coalition	2010 Winter Olympics

DBR composed the score for Off & Running, a feature-length documentary film directed by Nicole Opper about an African-American teen raised by a Jewish lesbian couple in Brooklyn, will be shown at NY’s IFC Center starting Jan 29. The film has been shown across the U.S. since its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last spring.	Troy High School Orchestra will be the first of many youth orchestras around the nation to premiere Symphony for the Dance Floor (Jan 30) born out of DBR’s passion working with young musicians. It will be performed at Rockport Opera House in Maine on Mar 7, and at the New England Conservatory in May 2010.	DBR will be a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for the Canadian premiere of Voodoo Violin Concerto at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on Feb 14. The very next day, Feb 15, he and DJ Spooky will unveil an exclusive duo collaboration at the Olympics Live Site.
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DMPL	Sphinx Consortium	New Website

Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, DBR's evening-length multimedia pocket oratorio, Darwin’s Meditation for the People of Lincoln, made its way to North Carolina State University and Nashville's Vanderbilt University this past fall, and will have its Texas premiere at TITAS in Dallas, TX, Feb 25.	DBR is currently working on his new full orchestra commission, Symphony for Dreamers, Dancers and Presidents, commissioned by the Sphinx Consortium which consists of 10 major national orchestras. This 20-min work in 3 movements will be premiered by New World Symphony in Sep 2010.	Whether you follow him on Twitter or Facebook, DBR’s website, new & improved, is the best to place to obtain comprehensive updates on all-things-DBR. The site now features a complete sheetmusic library of over 50 published scores, mp3 preview samples of recorded music, blogs and more.
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*Woodbox Beats & Balladry*	BTJ & DBR	*In C Remixed*

DBR has just finished recording his new album Woodbox Beats & Balladry, slated for release in Mar 2010. A collection of brand new as well as hit songs from live shows performed by DBR & THE MISSION, the album is sure to be a winner. Preview these tracks in this new promotional video.	A new album of music written for Choreographer Bill T. Jones (Fela!) and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. by DBR entitled Lights, Bridges and Endless Miles, will be released this spring, featuring memorable sounds from Another Evening: I Bow Down, and more.	Raved by critics and recently ranked top 10 Classical chart on iTunes, In C Remixed is a collection of remixes of Terry Riley’s composition, In C, by today’s top contemporary sonic architects including DJ Spooky, Nico Muhly, David Lang, Phil Kline and DBR.
See Video	Preview EP Tracks	Buy Album
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