Daniel Brandes

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Beautiful Failure excerpt

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Released: Jan 1, 2009

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Beautiful Failure excerpt
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Sacrament part 1
6:00
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Sacrament part 2
6:28
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These Bones
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light bleeds through
8:10
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Genre: Classical / Experimental / Visual
Location Victoria, British Columbia, CA
Profile Views: 5939
Last Login: 10/26/2010
Member Since 2/26/2008
Record Label Unsigned
Bio
Daniel Brandes is a maker of sounds. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia with his wife Laura and his cat Jack. He rides a blue, Raleigh, five-speed bicycle, circa 1975, with joy and reckless abandon – though he always wears his helmet and obeys the rules of the road. He is a resoundingly bad, but earnest, five string banjo player. He plays and sings on the street with his wife for money. It works. .. .. Daniel studies composition with Christopher Butterfield at the University of Victoria. He composes music that walks tight ropes – tight ropes between nothing and something, fragility and fierceness, beauty and ugliness. He likes art that makes the listener/viewer/reader come to it. He likes artists that try even if they fail, as long as they try. .. .. His music has travelled across Canada, being performed in concerts, reading sessions and workshops by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, the Windsor Community Orchestra, the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, the Brave New Works Ensemble, the ECM + and the Quatuor Bozzini. .. .. In addition to music, Daniel loves baseball, the written word and is considering taking up pin-hole photography. ...... .... ..You should create your own ..MySpace Layouts.. like me by using ..nUCLEArcENTURy...COM's ..MySpace Profile Editor..!.. ....
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Me. And those who are willing to play.
Influences
Brent Lee, Jason Merrow, Laura (my wife), Benjamin Brandes (my brother), Linda Catlin Smith, Christopher Butterfield, Morton Feldman, Mark Rothko, Henryk Gorecki, Nikolai Korndorf, the impossible beauty of sound, Tom Waits, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole krauss,.... miracles - like how glass is made out of sand and fire....
Sounds Like
beautiful light through broken glass...

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