Dan Friedman

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Giggin'

I’ve also started (2009) playing sax live in Toronto again:

• Suprise show at the Tranzac with Allison Cameron on October 13 - was a great success! Thanks to all those who came out.
• I’ll be playing 2 duo sets, one with John Oswald (sax) and one with Aimee Dawn Robinson (dance), at Somewhere There on November 7 at 8pm.

Where I'm Coming From, Where I Am

I used to improvise a lot, mostly on the saxophone. Then I got a little disillusioned with what I was doing and stopped for a few years. Now I find myself making music again, having put together some software development chops in the interim.

I’m revisiting the trajectory suggested by my earlier Csound pieces. Composition proceeds at a more glacial pace; I’m not in any hurry, and I’m really not interested in live performance of these works.

I’ve also started improvising live around Toronto again, which is exciting.

Music For You To Download

• Hashed & Heaping (2002) - slide whistles, voices, drums, kazoos, melting snow and cabbies (credits)
• The Difference Is Spreading (1997) - just tuned violins gating mumbling voices (credits)
• Bale (2000) - algorithmic digital manipulations of soprano saxophone source material (credits)

License: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5

This is the sort of thing I’ve done in the past that’s most like what I’m up to now: digital/algorithmic post-processing of acoustic/concrete recordings. It’s all done with Csound, except for The Difference Is Spreading, which involved a hardware gate rather than a software one.

Where I've Been

York University, Toronto, Canada. I’ve studied composition with James Tenney, Martin Arnold and David Lidov; improvisation with Casey Sokol; and saxophone with David Mott and Rob Frayne.

Contact Info

• For email, my name is dan and my email server is boywithmachine.net.
• I’m also on Twitter

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