love you forever/theme from shaft (?!?)

loving, fiercely

the next room

the desert is singing

Breeze:

www.breezemuse.com
 
Drums, percussion, instrument maker/designer, educator . . improviser 
 
Working in solo and ensemble formats in Europe & the U.S. 
 
 David Ornette Cherry, Rod Poole, Hannibal Lakumbe, String Planet, Roberto Miranda, Justo Amario, Ralph "Buzzy" Jones, Yuval Ron, Tadashi Namba, David Strother; this is a warm list of artists that I am so grateful to have performed along side in the vast realm of the musical arts.
 
Through deeper studies in Ethnomusicology, I facilitate sound guided meditations with a myriad of gongs, singing bowls and eclectic percussion.
 
Modern Dance accompaniment is also an area that has made it possible for me to create many performances with the Ohio State University Dance Dept. Among them, with my wife, Cheryl Banks-Smith, famed dancer with Sun Ra, Peter Kowald, Cecil Taylor and Dianne MacIntyre. 
 
I was a guest artist at the "NOW" festival at Capital Universities Music Conservatory. Here I performed on five of my own sound sculptures.
 
2004 solo, self produced CD, "SightSoundingBackDrops+8" - Also 3 recording projects with brother, Stan Smith: "Pathways" "Silent Memories" and "In Tadashi's Room"  www.stansmithguitar.com
 
I am honored to be creating new music with Oz in our duo: ComfortZone - with Oz on Chapman Stick.
 
I work with the non profit, STAR Education, Inc., where I am director of World Percussion, Geo-Domes, Woodworking and Special Events. www.starinc.org

David Strother is an improvising electric violinist and composer in Southern California. His solo CDs, "muse," “soundings.live” and “the desert is singing,” are available at cdbaby.com , Itunes, Amazon and other outlets. His recording credits also include CPD's experimental opus “The Process,” Alternate Faith's “Out of Nowhere,” and Susan J. Paul's “Big Love,” among others. More recent CD appearances include two tracks on rapper Tito “Stretch” Calloway's great album, “Thugelligence;” the remixed edition of Davie Gayle's “Amber in the Clay;” Scot Ray's magnificent “Earth Circuit;” and Lawrence Lebo's '”Don't Call Her Larry, vol. 3.” Film and TV appearances include David Lynch's “The Straight Story” (with the Radio Ranch Straight Shooters) and the animated Nickelodeon series “Doug.”  He also has been co-hosting the Eighth Day Arts Poetry and Wine Salon along with the writer Ricardo Acuna for since 2010.

David Strother is an NS Design artist and plays that company's CR-5 electric violin on a regular basis. www.soundcloud.com/dstroviolin

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