The passing of composer Yoshi Wada has hit me in many ways, as he was both a creative inspiration to me and the father of my partner Tashi. I’ve witnessed a beautiful symbiotic relationship between Yoshi and Tashi—how Yoshi’s life work and the artistic environment he surrounded himself with provided a fertile foundation for Tashi’s own artistic explorations and also ways of thinking about art, and in turn, how Tashi, in his adult life, has supported Yoshi’s work, through his label Saltern among other things, and collaborated with him in various settings—recordings, sound installations, and performances. While a lot of children of artists might choose another path, it’s great that Yoshi’s two children were encouraged enough by him, as well as by their artist mother Marilyn Bogerd, who took many of the great photographs of Yoshi’s work and also performed in his pieces, to both become artists—Yoshi’s daughter Manon Bogerd Wada is also an artist and sculptor. [text continues in comments]
The passing of composer Yoshi Wada has hit me in many ways, as he was both a creative inspiration to me and the father of my partner Tashi. I’ve witnessed a beautiful symbiotic relationship between Yoshi and Tashi—how Yoshi’s life work and the artistic environment he surrounded himself with provided a fertile foundation for Tashi’s own artistic explorations and also ways of thinking about art, and in turn, how Tashi, in his adult life, has supported Yoshi’s work, through his label Saltern among other things, and collaborated with him in various settings—recordings, sound installations, and performances. While a lot of children of artists might choose another path, it’s great that Yoshi’s two children were encouraged enough by him, as well as by their artist mother Marilyn Bogerd, who took many of the great photographs of Yoshi’s work and also performed in his pieces, to both become artists—Yoshi’s daughter Manon Bogerd Wada is also an artist and sculptor. [text continues in comments]
The passing of composer Yoshi Wada has hit me in many ways, as he was both a creative inspiration to me and the father of my partner Tashi. I’ve witnessed a beautiful symbiotic relationship between Yoshi and Tashi—how Yoshi’s life work and the artistic environment he surrounded himself with provided a fertile foundation for Tashi’s own artistic explorations and also ways of thinking about art, and in turn, how Tashi, in his adult life, has supported Yoshi’s work, through his label Saltern among other things, and collaborated with him in various settings—recordings, sound installations, and performances. While a lot of children of artists might choose another path, it’s great that Yoshi’s two children were encouraged enough by him, as well as by their artist mother Marilyn Bogerd, who took many of the great photographs of Yoshi’s work and also performed in his pieces, to both become artists—Yoshi’s daughter Manon Bogerd Wada is also an artist and sculptor. [text continues in comments]
hi friends 🦦please join me for an intimate solo concert streamed live from @lodgeroom on Feb 25 (link for tickets in bio) . photo: @tnpain
Four plus years in the making, deeply entwined, together now in the world. What a wild ride 🌹 Portrait by Dicky Bahto
Four plus years in the making, deeply entwined, together now in the world. What a wild ride 🌹 Portrait by Dicky Bahto
new record “No Sun” by @nitejewel is incredible, I’m obviously a big fan of all Ramona’s music (and we’ve been friends for years), but this is the wildest work of hers. It’s heartbreaking but also so warm. I love following the melodies as they meander, the intricate arrangements allow for a lot of space, and the powerful vocal expression is captured intimately in the production and you really feel it. I also love the other brilliant contributions to the record—@coreyvogeln @coreyleegranet @jay_is @jakeviator.wav @tnpain @simonallenbrian Was honored to play a little solo in one of the tracks too. final thought is that this record also feels really musically playful, despite all the intensity, and I love that 🔥❤️❤️
This coming Monday, March 15, @weareumaw is holding socially-distant demonstrations outside Spotify offices internationally to deliver our demands to Spotify. Spotify is consistently devaluing music with its practices, and this is affecting all musicians. Covid has left most musicians who make music for a living out of work, as gigs are their main source of income, and yet, since Covid, Spotify has tripled in valuation to around $60 billion. Streaming is 85% of all recorded music income these days, and most of that streaming money is not going to most of the musicians whose music is being streamed, and Spotify dominates the streaming world, in part because of its practices which may be considered to be a kind of predatory pricing. It is urgent we continue to bring our demands to Spotify and to build awareness to the public about its practices. I have been very lucky as a musician, but I’m worried about the future of creative music, and especially worried for musicians just starting out now. It doesn’t have to be this way, and there has to be a change. Please join us wherever your local action is and see you at the LA one which will be from 1pm-2pm . Thank you to the great @tomorrowtoday.us for printing our signs here in LA . Repost @weareumaw ・・・ Are you fed up with how Spotify pays and treats musicians? Join us March 15 for our worldwide day of action. We’re planning 31 socially distanced actions at Spotify offices around the globe. Sign up for your local event here: unionofmusicians.org/justice-at-spotify #justiceatspotify #payartists #pennyperstream #unionofmusiciansandalliedworkers
This coming Monday, March 15, @weareumaw is holding socially-distant demonstrations outside Spotify offices internationally to deliver our demands to Spotify. Spotify is consistently devaluing music with its practices, and this is affecting all musicians. Covid has left most musicians who make music for a living out of work, as gigs are their main source of income, and yet, since Covid, Spotify has tripled in valuation to around $60 billion. Streaming is 85% of all recorded music income these days, and most of that streaming money is not going to most of the musicians whose music is being streamed, and Spotify dominates the streaming world, in part because of its practices which may be considered to be a kind of predatory pricing. It is urgent we continue to bring our demands to Spotify and to build awareness to the public about its practices. I have been very lucky as a musician, but I’m worried about the future of creative music, and especially worried for musicians just starting out now. It doesn’t have to be this way, and there has to be a change. Please join us wherever your local action is and see you at the LA one which will be from 1pm-2pm . Thank you to the great @tomorrowtoday.us for printing our signs here in LA . Repost @weareumaw ・・・ Are you fed up with how Spotify pays and treats musicians? Join us March 15 for our worldwide day of action. We’re planning 31 socially distanced actions at Spotify offices around the globe. Sign up for your local event here: unionofmusicians.org/justice-at-spotify #justiceatspotify #payartists #pennyperstream #unionofmusiciansandalliedworkers
This coming Monday, March 15, @weareumaw is holding socially-distant demonstrations outside Spotify offices internationally to deliver our demands to Spotify. Spotify is consistently devaluing music with its practices, and this is affecting all musicians. Covid has left most musicians who make music for a living out of work, as gigs are their main source of income, and yet, since Covid, Spotify has tripled in valuation to around $60 billion. Streaming is 85% of all recorded music income these days, and most of that streaming money is not going to most of the musicians whose music is being streamed, and Spotify dominates the streaming world, in part because of its practices which may be considered to be a kind of predatory pricing. It is urgent we continue to bring our demands to Spotify and to build awareness to the public about its practices. I have been very lucky as a musician, but I’m worried about the future of creative music, and especially worried for musicians just starting out now. It doesn’t have to be this way, and there has to be a change. Please join us wherever your local action is and see you at the LA one which will be from 1pm-2pm . Thank you to the great @tomorrowtoday.us for printing our signs here in LA . Repost @weareumaw ・・・ Are you fed up with how Spotify pays and treats musicians? Join us March 15 for our worldwide day of action. We’re planning 31 socially distanced actions at Spotify offices around the globe. Sign up for your local event here: unionofmusicians.org/justice-at-spotify #justiceatspotify #payartists #pennyperstream #unionofmusiciansandalliedworkers
This coming Monday, March 15, @weareumaw is holding socially-distant demonstrations outside Spotify offices internationally to deliver our demands to Spotify. Spotify is consistently devaluing music with its practices, and this is affecting all musicians. Covid has left most musicians who make music for a living out of work, as gigs are their main source of income, and yet, since Covid, Spotify has tripled in valuation to around $60 billion. Streaming is 85% of all recorded music income these days, and most of that streaming money is not going to most of the musicians whose music is being streamed, and Spotify dominates the streaming world, in part because of its practices which may be considered to be a kind of predatory pricing. It is urgent we continue to bring our demands to Spotify and to build awareness to the public about its practices. I have been very lucky as a musician, but I’m worried about the future of creative music, and especially worried for musicians just starting out now. It doesn’t have to be this way, and there has to be a change. Please join us wherever your local action is and see you at the LA one which will be from 1pm-2pm . Thank you to the great @tomorrowtoday.us for printing our signs here in LA . Repost @weareumaw ・・・ Are you fed up with how Spotify pays and treats musicians? Join us March 15 for our worldwide day of action. We’re planning 31 socially distanced actions at Spotify offices around the globe. Sign up for your local event here: unionofmusicians.org/justice-at-spotify #justiceatspotify #payartists #pennyperstream #unionofmusiciansandalliedworkers
Hello strangers, how long? Has it been? 🪁🪁🪁 Feb 25 I will be playing some comfort tunes solo from the lovely @lodgeroom in LA, straight to wherever you happen to be . Livestream Feb 25 7pm pt 9pm ct 10pm ET. For friends in other time zones or unable to make it at the live time, the performance will be available for 24 hours (until 7pm PT on Friday, February 26th)
this evening around 4:45pm PST a field recording and 6pm PST a show of sounds and songs for @odaislive members featuring @salternimprint mixing everything via binaural mic on his head moving around the space—maybe there will be fragments of some vocal music I’ve been working on and an ocean and hello stranger seagulls in the living room, the usual, etc . photo: Michael Clement
very thankful and honored that the great @reprashida took the time to talk to a group of us @weareumaw @heba_kadry @laneve__ @__shigeto about how streaming inequity is gravely affecting the present and future of music #justiceatspotify . link to the round table discussion with Representative Tlaib in bio. Thank you so much @reprashida
was a real pleasure and adventure reinterpreting the surreal and lovely @buzzytunes song “Strange Town” 🪐🔥🌈☄️(link in bio) with great artwork by @nicolasjaar
beautiful video by @dicky_bahto of a home performance of Tashi Wada’s music @salternimprint . was very cathartic to be a part of this, with the richest assortment yet of sirens and bagpipe. in memory of Yoshi Wada . stream is part of a show including performances by Hekla and Jason Sharp, available for 24 hrs starting now, link in bio
beautiful video by @dicky_bahto of a home performance of Tashi Wada’s music @salternimprint . was very cathartic to be a part of this, with the richest assortment yet of sirens and bagpipe. in memory of Yoshi Wada . stream is part of a show including performances by Hekla and Jason Sharp, available for 24 hrs starting now, link in bio
beautiful video by @dicky_bahto of a home performance of Tashi Wada’s music @salternimprint . was very cathartic to be a part of this, with the richest assortment yet of sirens and bagpipe. in memory of Yoshi Wada . stream is part of a show including performances by Hekla and Jason Sharp, available for 24 hrs starting now, link in bio
beautiful video by @dicky_bahto of a home performance of Tashi Wada’s music @salternimprint . was very cathartic to be a part of this, with the richest assortment yet of sirens and bagpipe. in memory of Yoshi Wada . stream is part of a show including performances by Hekla and Jason Sharp, available for 24 hrs starting now, link in bio
doing another online class “Words and Non-Words in Music” @camp_fr Feb 1-15 where we listen to how vocal sounds in music can bring out a truth more powerful than logical meaning. listening to a lot of relevant works of art for inspiration, creating our own stuff solo and collaboratively, and sharing with eachother. the last one was so fun. a few spots left (link in bio)
wowwwow April 9-10 playing my songs inside Minecraft alongside many great others in this benefit for @weareumaw . Repost @weareumaw with @get_repost ・・・ This Friday and Saturday, a massive Minecraft festival to benefit UMAW featuring over 20 incredible artists. Come hang out with us on these spaceships. Check this lineup! Details at netherrap.com Presented in collaboration with @bdolansfr
a bunch of musicians including myself will be playing sets inside Minecraft today and tomorrow to support @weareumaw I’ll be there tomorrow April 10 . here is the full schedule for the Galactic Federation of Musicians and Allied Workers April 9-10. starts today at 5pm EST. All details at netherrap.com
a bunch of musicians including myself will be playing sets inside Minecraft today and tomorrow to support @weareumaw I’ll be there tomorrow April 10 . here is the full schedule for the Galactic Federation of Musicians and Allied Workers April 9-10. starts today at 5pm EST. All details at netherrap.com
please join us for the LA album release show for the beautiful “Tombeaux” by @malinisridharan at @2220arts ! Link to tickets in bio. I was honored to be a part of this very epic record. Poster with art by @bmedge @ah_lamella great cellist and composer, and longtime friend and collaborator @chrisvotek will be playing a set as well. I will be playing piano and singing backing vox for @malinisridharan who will also be joined by this amazing ensemble of strings and winds @marshweedinthegarden on violin @bre_oboe on oboe Emma McCartney on flute Brian Walsh on clarinet Jonathan Stehney on bassoon
