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Third Uncle Violet
3+ albums
ambientelectronicdowntempoexperimental
about
Third Uncle Violet: a pseudonym, a project, a blatantly-commercialized presentation of non-commercial work. Also, a way around having a rather boring name is real life. After spending the first five years of his life in a small, semi-legal cooperative in the Angeles National Forest in San Dimas, California, Daniel Shaw and his family moved to the college town of Claremont. It was here that he developed an interest in music, visual art, and theatre. He is interested in exploring what he sees as the overlooked emotional and contextual possibilities of early 1980's-era ambient music while blurring the lines between music and sound art. Shaw is also interested in playing with - in a purely experimental way - the possibilities of live improvisations using found sound clips and live talk radio. Shaw is currently studying Electro-Acoustic Music Composition with Dr. Joseph Martin Waters at San Diego State University and composing music and ambient soundscapes for Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice, directed by CJ Keith for the SDSU's School of Theatre, Television, and Film, opening in March, 2011. He performed two structured improvisational works on Kaoss Pad in December, 2010 as part of SDSU's Mixed Ensemble, advised by Dr. Karen Follingstad. In Summer of 2010, he digitally released his first album, Absence, under his pseudonym, Third Uncle Violet. He also wrote and performed the music and and collaborated on sound design for the video game demo, Tenth Planet. He is also a producer