Busy Busy Busy

Wow. I'd like to think we've all be so incredibly busy that we haven't had time to post anything to this site. Myself included.

For those of you who don't already know I acquired a new camera recently. It's digital. I need to pause on this for a moment, because for those of you who know me well, or even a little, you know that hell must have frozen over.

I thought I would expand my tool box a bit. It was time.

Hopefully I will have new photographs for you all soonish. I also hope to post some images of a joint art project Ken Jacobson and I completed recently.

It was quite a collaboration. We didn't even kill each other.

Stay tuned... .

drum n' bass experiment

I have been working more on putting my drum n' bass set together. Living in a small town without many distractions has served me well in getting my CD together. I would like to have it done right before Christmas. I have 30 minutes together at this point, still needs a little bit of fine tuning, but I feel that it is coming along. You can take a listen here:

www.danasprinkel.com/secondmix.mp3

Barage of Shows

First there was the fact that I have a birthday coming up on Oct. 17th. Not only is this a big one (one with a '0' at the end of the number) but my girlfriend, Loryn, and I actually share the same birthday. To celebrate, I booked a show at the Rendezvous and we are to play a set together as Monstroclaw. While we have played a show once already, my mistake was attaching the word 'dub' to our musical description in certain press releases. Loryn is really into reggae and dub and now it has us working pretty hard to integrate our free form electronic noise into a style of music worthy of being called 'dub'.

And then there is Tempered Steel, the thumb piano ensemble. This was a project that has always been really fun but I have been neglecting it over the past couple of years. Lately, however, we've been getting together on a regular basis to practice. We've also been making high quality multitrack recordings of our sessions and they have been turning out awesome! Dennis went ahead and got us a gig at Floating Leaves on Fri. the 19th.

On Sunday the 14th, I'll be participating in an ambient electronic music night at Mr. Spot's. When I was asked to play it, I almost turned it down because of the other shows going on but the guy running really wanted me to be involved and I guess I am a sucker for flattery. This will be a good opportunity for me to play out using just my desktop evolver, which I tend to refer to as "God in a box".

Beginning at the Beginning

Welcome to the Artist Pact official blog site. We are a collective of artists working in a variety of disciplines that have formed coalition in order to further our work and the work of other artists in our community. In this space you will find meanderings on the artistic process, examples of our work, and a calendar of events.

As a whole we are artists working in both traditional and non-traditional or digital media. We draw, paint, photograph, and make collage; we compose and perform music in various genres; we build traditional and non-traditional musical instruments; we write poetry, limericks, short-stories, and more.

At times we toss various combinations of these things in a blender and set to frappe.

Stay tuned for the Artist Pact Manifesto.

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