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Dan Trueman
12+ albums
contemporary classicalinstrumentalClassicalexperimentalcomposer
about
Dan Trueman is a composing performer on both the 6-string electric violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. His duo with Monica Mugan, Trollstilt, released its first CD of original tunes in 2000 and has performed widely at both contemporary music festivals and folk music festivals Trollstilt has recently expanded and become QQQ. Dan also plays and teaches traditional Norwegian Hardanger fiddle music. Dan has been active as an experimental instrument designer and has built spherical speakers and the Bowed-Sensor-Speaker-Array, among other things. He co-founded and directs the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), an ensemble of laptop-ists with 6-channel spherical speakers and various control devices, for which he was awarded a major grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He is a member of interface, an electronic improvisation ensemble. Their first CD, ./swank, was released in early 2001 and their DVD, RECORDING FIELD, H, with guest Pauline Oliveros, was released by the Deep Listening label in 2003. While many of Dan's compositions are for his own ensembles, he also composes for various chamber ensembles and occasionally for orchestra. Several of his chamber works are included in his recent Bridge Records CD, Machine Language. A CD/DVD of his evening-length Five (and-a-half) Gardens (for So Percussion and Trollstilt, with animated paintings) will be released in the March of 2008 by So Percussion's new label Shhh Productions. Five (and-a-half) Gardenshas been presented at the
top songs
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Olagón, Pt. 2: Stirrings I
1192Songs That Are Hard to Sing: No. 1, Sinking Song
973Olagón, Pt. 1: Pillow Talk
954Neither Anvil nor Pulley: Act I: Another Wallflower (From Long Ago)
745Songs That Are Hard to Sing: No. 3, Summoning Song
746Olagón, Pt. 1: Marbhan's Shadow
647Songs That Are Hard to Sing: No. 2, Sister Song
638Olagón, Pt. 1: Introductions
619Neither Anvil nor Pulley: Act II: 120bpm (Or, What is your Metronome Thinking?)
6010Neither Anvil nor Pulley: Act III: A Cow Call (Please oh Please Come Home!)
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