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"hip, intelligent, sometimes provocative, and often simply beautiful songwriting" – the All Music Guide on Andy Ditzler

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Andy Ditzler is a songwriter, performer, and curator. He is the founder and artistic director of Frequent Small Meals, a record label and production company, and a founding member of John Q, at Atlanta art collective whose work encompasses performance, public space, archives, and memory. 

Ditzler was trained as a percussionist at the Indiana University School of Music, but a traditional symphonic music career was not the idea. “I got interested in the avant-garde – John Cage especially,” he says. “Cage’s philosophy that any sound can be considered music really affected me. Ideas about what constituted a musical instrument, or music, or artistic activity kept expanding.” 

Ditzler’s projects have taken him into video, audio phonography, multimedia forms, theater, performance art, and public art, but he consistently returns to songwriting. “I never cease to be fascinated by all the lyrical and musical possibilities of what you can do in the space of a pop song and the way the form can stretch to incorporate so many kinds of influences. I love it.” 

In 2006 Ditzler released his first music CD, Songs From Yes and No, which he produced, arranged, and recorded over two years. The “Pagan Christmas” holiday single Solstice followed in 2008, with a music video directed by underground film legend George Kuchar. 

In 2003, Ditzler’s career took another turn, when he began curating film programs in Atlanta. His series, which he named Film Love, now encompasses over one hundred events in an ongoing exploration of the history of avant-garde and experimental film. Film Love events have been reviewed in Pitchfork, Art Papers, and numerous other publications, as well as winning multiple “Best of Atlanta” awards. Ditzler’s numerous writings on film may be found in the Film Love online archive at www.filmlove.org.

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i sing with @bristolsacredharp. most of the stuff I post on here is sacred harp or folk hymnody related. for my other music, see the @nervybetters

I'm a shapenote singer and composer. See my compositions at https://www.sacredharptunes.com/author/matthewparkinson/

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