Daedelus on the Block
"When I was really young before I discovered music I really wanted to be an inventor. I would take things apart like the record player and the television. I wasn't very talented though, I was good at smashing things but I couldn't put the pieces back together. My parents had some hope at first that I might become an engineer but they quickly learned that this wasn't going to happen. Music became a way for me to compositional invent stuff."
on james joyce
"James Joyce's power of description and imagery is so strong that I feel a kinship with him even if I couldn't possible match a thimbleful of his talent. He's writing is so layered with beautiful imagery and beautiful possibilities. I really like the idea that you can sit down with a recording or a book and eat it up once and after you have digested it you can dip back in again and it's a much richer and fuller experience. I try to make my records in that vein where you can listen to it again and again and hopefully you are going to go further down the rabbit hole along with me".
on the magic monome
Mine is pretty much a box with 256 buttons that light up which allows me to completely improvise my songs and to expand them out into different ideas, be it my own music or other peoples music. It's like having a multi dimensional piano. It's a fun machine!"
on his upcoming limerick gig'it will be light and effervescent'
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Extra:
*Daedelus plays Club headbangbang in Tralee on Thursday night in the Greyhound and Whelans in Dublin on the Saturday. He will also give a lecture in UL on Friday.
** We will have regular updates on Thursday and Friday on the right sidebar.
*** A video for fairweather friend
isn't love to make music to not been released on ninja?
Posted by: carnie | April 09, 2008 at 04:46 PM
well spotted carnie- I have corrected it now- thanks
Posted by: shane | April 09, 2008 at 07:25 PM