Basscut - To Be Loved

Text by Sung Hwan Kim 김성환 
from the performance WATERMELON SONS directed by Sung Hwan Kim in musical collaboration with dogr aka David Michael DiGregorio

a quotation from a conversation between dogr and Sung Hwan Kim in the book SUNG HWAN KIM: TALK OR SING: 
"On 'serial gestures'
SHK: I was reading GHOSTS by César Aira.  He only writes
short novels. He doesn’t make compilations because he thinks of short novels as an independent format. I got to know him through reading Roberto Bolaño, who regarded Aira as one of his favorite writers. In GHOSTS, Aira talks about architecture. He envisions the city (Buenos Aires) filled with different types of architecture: architecture that was there, architecture that could have been there, architecture in a changed format co-existing with the other.
The story is about a Chilean immigrant family living in Argentina. The father works as the superintendent of a condominium under construction in which he lives with his family. The other creatures in the building are ghosts. The family sees these ghosts, and there is no question about whether or not these ghosts should be feared. They just co-exist. In this song, the line 'when she goes up, she walks through concrete' is Aira’s line from the story, and I make up other images I see when I read between the lines."




when she goes up she walks through concrete

walking around letting in air like ideas

some are useful 

send them to the bureaus

where heart births another heart

it is all mine

these limbs and nods

they will work the day

to feed the others

and my guilt

for not being better

as told

ahead in Myths.

serial gestures [live]

Where The Sun Don't Shine

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

serial gestures [live]

David Michael DiGregorio (dogr)

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