Basscut - To Be Loved

Where The Sun Don't Shine

The mist keeps falling
Creation mist

The mist is curtains
The mist is curtains grey
Curtains grey

Ē pāpā, haʻohaʻo nui wau iā Māmā i kēia lā
i kēia lā
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A Record of Drifting Across the Sea (research process, specifically in reading The Folding Cliffs)
Performed in Read Aloud Lyrics at Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, August 30, 2022. 

Various foreign diseases introduced to Hawaiʻi precipitated a population collapse, in which an estimated ninety percent of the Hawaiian people were decimated in under seventy years, roughly from the 1780s through the 1840s. Due to the introduction of leprosy, now known as Hansen’s disease, many Hawaiian families were separated overnight due to strict quarantine measures during the nineteenth century.

New York-born poet William Stanley Merwin moved to the Hawaiian Islands in 1976, settling on an old pineapple plantation on Maui, where he restored the surrounding rainforest. He died in Maui in 2019 at the age of 91. Merwin published an epic poem called The Folding Cliffs in 1998. Merwin based this poem on a 1906 Hawaiian-language account, The True Story of Kaluaikoʻolau as Told by His Wife, Piʻilani. Piʻilani, the daughter of her father and mother, her husband’s wife and the mother of a child, buried her family, hiding in the wrinkles of the creases of the mountain cliffs. What follows is a lyric, “a night name” inspired by this story as interpreted in Merwin’s novel-in-verse. In ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, the phrase “he inoa pō,”according to the Hawaiian Dictionary (Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, 1986), refers to a “dream name, as a name for an infant believed received in a dream; it was thought that if such a name were not given, the child would be sickly or die.”

The final line of the song is an excerpt from from Kulāiwi (lesson 15), a Hawaiian-language-learning television program from the 1990s hosted by ʻEkela Kanīʻaupiʻo-Crozier: “Papa, I miss Mama so much on this day.”


[written and performed by David Michael DiGregorio]

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Nation of Abel - Anyone Could Happen to Me

This is a live set @ Hulas Bar & Lei Stand in Honolulu, Hawaii.  
One of many parts to a soulful summer Sunday series for 2025.  

This House Children set has plenty four to the floor gallops of house; new and old, with major nods to disco & somehow that announcer guy voiceover moment.  Buildups are built pretty jacked, with melodic comedowns that are warm, familiar and groovy.
 
Have fun. Happy Sundays ~

House ya Childrens

As part of the Guggenheim Museum’s “Summer of Know” series, artist and activist Mariam Ghani and Vincent Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights, discussed identity and national security, in a conversation moderated by Amara Antilla, Assistant Curator, on August 8, 2017.

Summer of Know

Conversation: Mariam Ghani and Vincent Warren (2017)

From the upcoming 12inch out Dec 8th on Smalltown Supersound.

Pre-order here http://smarturl.it/STS32612

More Than A Woman

Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)

This edition of Ghostly International's monthly show features artist,  producer & DJ Logan Takahashi.
Twitter/ instagram: @logan_t_ @ghostly

Track list:
Alvin Curran - ’Crystal Aires’
Environments - ‘Dusk in the Okefenokee Swamp’
Ulla Strauss - ‘Sister’
Meitei - ‘Nami’
Chester Raj Anand - ‘Shibuya 5AM’
Blackwater - ‘Istanbul’
Hallucinator - ‘People’
Sakan & Senju - ‘Senpuuki’
Logan Takahashi - ‘live at the Kitchen NYC, June 2019, excerpt’
Black Dice - ‘Wastered’
Promoter - ’Cogitate 1.1’
Pontiac Streator - ’Cum Angelus’
Speculative Ero - ’Track 3;
Seltene Erden - ‘Paris Schema’
Alice Coltrane - ‘Improvised Harp Solo’
Debussy - ‘Ballade’ performed by Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky
Hoshina Anniversary - ‘Shinju’
Julion De’Angelo & Viola Klein - ’N’aie pas peur (Exchange Mix)'
Seltene Erden - ‘ Twinkling Twilight’
Pretty Sneaky - ‘D’
Atonal - ‘Cithare’
Art of Noise - ‘A Nation Rejects’
Hallucinator - ‘Dusk’
Shinichi Atobe - ‘Rebuild Mix 2’

Ghostly with Logan Takahashi @ The Lot Radio 10 - 05 - 2020

David Michael DiGregorio is a composer and musician based in New York and Honolulu. His background includes classical and improvised technique on the piano, diverse vocal methods, performance with a gospel choir, electro-acoustic composition, and experimental pop construction.

His discography features albums IN KOREAN WILDS AND VILLAGES (as dogr, 2009), produced by Andi Toma and published by Sonig Records; and two Bayerischer-Rundfunk-2 broadcast commissions with Sung Hwan Kim, HOWL BOWEL OWL (2013) and ONE FROM IN THE ROOM (2010, for which the two won the Karl-
Sczuka-Förderpreis).  

His major concerts include Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan; New Museum, New York; Barakat Gallery, Ilmin Museum, and Insa Art Space, Seoul; De Nieuwe Kraakgeluiden and STEIM, Amsterdam; IFFR, Rotterdam; Huis aan de Werf and BAK, Utrecht; the Images Festival, Toronto; Project Arts Centre, Dublin; etablissement d’en face, Brussels. Group concerts include MoMA PS1 and Danspace Project, New York.

Group exhibitions include Small at Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten—d’Eendt, Amsterdam, 2006; BRILLIANT COLLABORATORS at Ilmin Museum, Seoul, 2013; New Habits, CASCO, Utrecht, 2014; and THE SHADOW OF THE BODY OF THE COACHMAN, Kunstsaele, Berlin, 2016. His film, COVER, has been exhibited for the 2022 collection show at Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea. His composition was included in Ari Benjamin Meyers’ Kunsthalle for Music Ensemble at Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly Witte de With), Rotterdam, 2018.

DiGregorio has collaborated since 2006 with Sung Hwan Kim, initially through development of the IN THE ROOM series. Later works include HAIR IS A PIECE OF HEAD, exhibited at the Busan Biennale 2022 and the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022; the Venice-Biennale-commissioned film LOVE BEFORE BOND, 2017; composition and performance in the operatic experiment 피나는 노력으로 한 [A WOMAN WHOSE HEAD CAME OUT BEFORE HER NAME] (2015), commissioned for the Asian-Arts-Theatre, Gwangju; music for the Tate-Modern-commissioned 2012 film TEMPER CLAY, which has also been shown in an extended installation version at Kim’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2021. DiGregorio also has collaborated with artists Danai Anesiadou, Rosa Barba, Byungjun Kwon, Martín Lanz Landázuri, Otobong Nkanga, Jewyo Rhii, and Haegue Yang.

http://dogr.org; ig: @dogr_music

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David Michael DiGregorio (dogr)

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