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My brother and me at SXSW
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: connections, press, performing, music, live visuals, history.
Dan and Pete labels, originally uploaded by ekornblut.
Last week Emily and I went to Austin for SXSW. I did visuals for a laptop battle (much fun), saw the premiere of Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, a documentary I’m in about the chipmusic scene, answered some audience questions afterwards with the filmmakers, and had many delicious breakfast tacos. Pete tagged me as an uber-micro-neo-kraut with stickers from the Last.fm/moo.com/Etsy/Timbuktu party. Emily thinks it ought to be my new visualist handle. Here’s the trailer for the documentary.
BLIP FESTIVAL: REFORMAT THE PLANET trailer from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.
Upcoming show: visuals with DJ Olive at {R}ake
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by dan.
Categories: performing, nyc, music, live visuals.
I am excited to announce that next week I’m doing visuals with DJ Olive, a genre-defining and -defying musician, at {R}ake, a performance series that brings together musicians and visualists in novel collaborations, in the intimate, delicious setting of Monkeytown. All the details are at rakeav.com and below. Reservations are highly recommended as {R}ake always sells out.
{R}ake at Monkeytown
Weds, Jan 30, 8 to 10:30 pm
58 North 3rd Street
(bet. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
718 384-1369
tickets $7 ($10 minimum — the food and drinks are great)
DJ Olive
listen and download tracks at
http://www.myspace.com/theaudiojanitor
-and-
http://www.theagriculture.com/store.html
Video: What I’m up to
Posted on January 14th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: video, connections, music, live visuals.
One of my current projects is making a music video for Jonny from Eclectic Method. Here’s a little trial run/draft of the work in progress for his song Compressoratorer. Jonny liked it, as well as my suggestion of adding some fun with scanned images of his face — more forthcoming. 
More Brother Islands pics
Posted on January 11th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: performing, connections, nyc, music, theater, live visuals.
Happy New Year! Sorry things have been so quiet — I had a very relaxing holiday, followed by a slow return to irregular life.
Eyebeam has posted some more pictures of the Brother Islands show, taken by the great Christine Baker. The one below shows me as a ghost, walking in front of the hole I had just pounded through drywall with a five foot, forty pound wrench.
Sudden performance in Bremen
Posted on September 25th, 2007 by dan.
Categories: photos, trip, share, performing, music.
Last night Emily and I got back from three days in Bremen, Germany, where I was invited to perform at the MENSCHMEERMEDIEN (man, mirror, medium) festival at the Nordwolle fin-de-siecle wool mill. We had a wonderful time and wonderful hosts. Thanks for the invite, Martin! The whole experience went something like:
Monday: Receive invitation via Share discussion list. Accept.
Tuesday: Martin tries to book ticket.
Wednesday: ticket falls through. Dan books incredibly cheap ticket on Emirates.
Wednesday afternoon: Emily decides to come and books incredibly cheap ticket on Emirates.
Thursday: leave for Hamburg.
Friday: arrive in Bremen. Eat bratwurst and tour the city with alternate historians.
Saturday: perform at massive old Victorian factory. Eat bratwurst. Party all night with splendid Germans.
Sunday morning: conclude party with Turkish/Sri Lankan falafel.
Sunday: act like tourists. Bratwurst. Completely fail to throw up out of one’s nostrils (note: this did not happen).
Monday: return to New York. No bratwurst. 
I played with Axel Himmelmann, who makes excellent music and looks a lot like me. Emily shot some great pics and video of Axel and me performing. You can watch one of them above and the rest on the Internet Archive.
;performing; visuals with Lance Blisters tonight
Posted on April 14th, 2007 by dan.
Categories: politics, connections, performing, nyc, war, music, live visuals.
I forgot to mention that I’m doing visuals with Lance Blisters tonight at the after-party for the 1st annual Anarchist Book Fair. 
LANCE BLISTERS: LIVE Jungle, Breakcore, Punk, and Noise performed with MIDI Guitar and Microphone, using custom software to create cutup political anthems. LIVE synchronized visual transcriptions of the songs’ subjects. LANCE BLISTERS was initiated in 2003 to SMASH THE STATE with a show which will ROCK YOUR FACE OFF! LANCE BLISTERS is a live multimedia band currently comprising Lance Blisters (music) and Ilan Katin (visuals), with special guest visual performer Dan Winckler for this show.
This Saturday, 14 April 07, LANCE BLISTERS will perform at the Anarchist Bookfair Afterparty with bands VIC THRILL and SATURN MISSILE, MOURNING GLORIES, ZEMI 17, and DJ’s CX KIDTRONIK, PETER GUNN, SHAKEY, AMOK, EMMIT BROWN, JASON BK playing a mixed bag of breaks, hip hop, d and b, techno, rare grooves, dubstep, breakcore, and…
Expect LANCE to play at 10:30pm
9pm-4am, Saturday, 14 Apr 2007
The Creek in The Cave, 10-93 Jackson Ave. (Long Island City, QueenS)
7 to Vernon/Jackson -or- G to 21 St/Van Alst.
$3-6 w/ ID
Google subway map from onnyturf.com
More for the back burner…
Posted on August 10th, 2006 by dan.
Categories: secondlife, art-making, music, programming, art, Grad school.
Last couple thoughts for the night:
- i’ve finally got time to play around with a media-textured avatar (think video skin)
- i want to make an avatar (in SL) that moves like Duchamp’s Nu qui descend un escalier #2 (nude descending a staircase #2)
- I learned a lot about texturing from the SL fora today. Check the end of the GIMPshop texturing tutorial I wrote last week for some illuminating reading on the subject.
- i made a couple ringtones last week — one of the tiny projects I squeezed in to entertain myself after long hours of teaching — in GarageBand and easybeat was very handy in the mastering stage*. Recommended.
* that is, playing it on my phone and transposing it in nudges until it sounded good.
piano stream
Posted on June 27th, 2006 by dan.
Categories: performing, nyc, music.
2006-06-27 01:08 am.
this is something i’ve been meaning to do for a while: stream audio from my home while I play piano. Right now, I’m sitting at my piano practicing, playing pieces and improvising. Listen to me play if you like. Requires Quicktime (free download, iTunes install not required — look for a ’standalone’ link)
1:45 am
That’s it for now. Here’s what I played (times approximate):
- 1:08 - 1:19 am: improv
- 1:19 - 1:27: Schumann’s little study
- 1:27 - 1:29: Mendelssohn’s song without words
- 1:29 - 1:31: Chopin’s prelude (Op. 28, No. 4)
- improv
- Enrique Granados’s valses poeticos
- improv
- Schumann, about strange lands and peoples
Let me know if you listened, please, and if you had any technical problems.
from: root (no subject) - BOUNDARY_OUTLOOK
Posted on June 22nd, 2006 by dan.
Categories: art-making, bloggage, musician, celebrity, nyc, america, music, art.
Spam is the I Ching of our millenium.
I had a fan moment today. A friend of mine is working with a hiphop artist I really, really dig. I ran into them today and told the artist I liked his music. So fumbly, these moments. I tend to think back on the lack of eye contact. Why? To be seen; to speak; to see; to be heard. Which of them is the operator in these encounters with recording artists? To be present; to be in the presence of.
superDrawing
Posted on June 17th, 2006 by dan.
Categories: performing, nyc, music, programming, live visuals.
Josh Ott invited me to draw with him last night at Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg. Josh has written a phenomenal live visual drawing program called superDraw which, surprisingly, I’ve never posted about before. At base it’s a drawing program: the performer draws with a Wacom tablet and the lines are transformed with beautiful effects, the list of which keeps growing and growing as Josh adds to the program. For some time now, it’s been capable of two performers drawing simultaneously, which is what we did last night, playing along with a phenomenal DJ (whose name I didn’t catch) and Mad EP — of Psychasthenia Society — who (dammit) I haven’t posted about before, either. It was thoroughly engaging and fun, like every time I’ve played superDraw with Josh. After much persuasion, it looks like I’ve talked him into considering porting superDraw to Max/MSP/Jitter. Anton discovered a relatively easy way to port Processing code to Jitter and we’re going to do a test port with part (all?) of superDraw — so clean up that code and send it over, Josh.
The ever-engaging and delightful Chika played with the reggae/dance group after our set, with her increasingly engrossing textural, psychedelic visuals. Bravo, Chika. 