tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55073372024-03-12T19:32:26.279-04:00empty house...Empty House Cooperative and David Michael Curry's various bands & related music with tangents that include the visual and musical poetics of architectural and societal decay. Sounds heavy, eh?David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-1756451996968297022017-03-12T14:03:00.003-04:002017-03-12T14:03:42.130-04:00Robert Fisher Memorial (1957 - 2017) Saturday, April 22, 2017 at noon at ONCE in Somerville
photo by Anthony
Robert Fisher Memorial (1957 - 2017)
an invitation to family, friends, and fans of Robert Fisher & Willard Grant Conspiracy
Saturday, April 22, 2017
high noon at ONCE, Somerville, MA, USA
venue info & directions:
http://www.oncesomerville.com/contact/
There will be food, music, images to celebrate the life of a friend from the world-wide music David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-47843303105362403342015-05-08T15:02:00.001-04:002015-05-08T15:03:35.167-04:00MUSIC: Chris Brokaw, Willard Grant Conspiracy, Thalia Zedek, Andrew Hock - Monday, May 11 at TT'sCome see this show:
Chris Brokaw - 11:00pm
Willard Grant Conspiracy - 10:00pm
Thalia Zedek - 9:15pm
Andrew Hock - 8:40pm
TT the Bear's
Monday, May 11, 2015
8:30pm Doors - 18+
10 Brookline Street, Central Square, Cambridge, MA
http://www.ttthebears.com/
admission at the door, or tickets here:
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?&eventId=5832545
David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-15714090822799390342014-02-12T16:39:00.002-05:002014-02-12T16:40:56.639-05:00STOMPBOXSONIC pedal demos w/ DMC on viola…
Thanks to Adam Brilla and Michael Hutcherson (Blast Zone), and the talented pedal designers that made this possible:
SONIC EXPLORATIONS #1: David Michael Curry, viola
SONIC EXPLORATIONS #2: David Michael Curry, viola
http://stompboxsonic.com/
http://earthquakerdevices.com/
https://www.facebook.com/nerdknuckleeffects
http://www.mrblackpedals.com/
http://michaelhutcherson.com/
David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-44444968112156425942012-10-04T13:04:00.000-04:002012-10-04T13:04:07.378-04:00Empty House Cooperative to provide music for The Steel Yard and the Iron Guild's 7th annual Halloween Iron Pour...Join The Steel Yard and the Iron Guild for the 7th annual Halloween Iron Pour.
27 Sims Ave, Providence RI
Friday, October 26, 2012
5:00 PM $10
http://www.thesteelyard.org/events/calendar/2012/10/26/206
5:00 - Doors open
5:30 - Reclaim, an aerial dance by Teresa Kochis & Michelle Struckholz, with live music by Cave of Colors
6:00 - DJ Unkle Thirsty
7:00 - Iron Pour Begins, with David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-21373495363361010622012-09-24T09:59:00.001-04:002012-09-24T09:59:45.912-04:00Empty House Cooperative at The Advent Library Concert Series - Friday, October 19, 2012
The Advent Library Concert Series is a monthly program that presents jazz, modern, folk, ethnic, and improvised music. The Library space is intimate and enchanting, and has a great sound for small acoustic groups, especially. The series is curated by Matt Samolis.
The Concerts are at the Church Library on the corner of Mt. Vernon & Brimmer Streets in Beacon Hill, Boston. Directions, David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-7580833092839597202012-09-24T09:37:00.002-04:002012-11-09T00:46:03.486-05:00Christina Vantzou and the Geometric Collective Mini Orchestra at MFA Oct. 11, 2012
Here's a dreamy, instrumental project that i'm part of for Thursday, October 11th at the Museum of Fine Arts:
Sound Bites: The Nancy Lee Clark Concert Series
Every second Thursday of the month from 6-8 pm in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art - an evening of small group ensembles.
Christina Vantzou and the Geometric Collective Mini Orchestra
Christina Vantzou is an artist, musician, David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-55695605391806970632012-09-05T11:57:00.007-04:002012-09-05T11:57:59.671-04:00Iron Guild & Empty House Cooperative at Mac SteelEmpty House Cooperative - this time as DMC on viola, guitar, and multi-amp soundscape, and Jonah Sacks on cello, did the music for the September 1, 2012 iron pour event "Molten Mayhem" by the Iron Guild at Mac Steel in Rutland, Vermont.
- here's some video:
- related:
http://www.ironguild.net/
https://www.facebook.com/events/384772858254535/
http://mountaintimes.info/news/David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-78621849337190846702012-09-05T11:13:00.001-04:002012-09-05T11:13:39.869-04:00Hidden Tooth "July 18, 2012" on Robert and Leopold
New limited edition release:
Hidden Tooth – July 18, 2012
3” CDr (R&L027)
Edition of 52
http://robertandleopold.com/
Noise dirge from the collaborative efforts of Chris Brokaw (Codeine / Come) and David Michael Curry (Willard Grant Conspiracy). Slow feedback slumping into guitar and viola squelches, equaling a funeral song for the recently deceased. Showing a level of David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-10794478935362229332012-07-14T15:22:00.001-04:002012-09-05T11:59:38.494-04:00DMC long overdue music update...
Lots of back-burner projects percolating:
As a gift to its participants, I will record music inspired by my solo music for the dance & theater developmental workshop piece at Harvard in 2011 by choreographer Liz Lerman, called Healing Wars, voiced by Bill Pullman & featuring some amazing dancers (Tamara Hurwitz Pullman, Lauren Simpson, Ali Ross & many others pro & student)
David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-51558409271186791882012-05-15T16:48:00.002-04:002012-05-15T16:55:48.136-04:00DMC Solo Photography Show - June, 2012
DOOR 3 Gallery presents:
David Michael Curry
PHOTOGRAPHS - observations & little histories
Opening Reception - Thursday, June 7, 2012, 7 - 9 pm.
on view through July 2 during bike shop hours
351 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 868-3392
www.broadwaybicycleschool.com
Artist statement:
Looking and listening is as much a compulsion as it is a lifestyle choice for me.
In art school, I David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-90268848032768312722011-12-07T16:36:00.004-05:002011-12-07T16:43:01.432-05:00David Michael Curry solo viola recorded November 5, 2011From a Grizzler and Friends show at Studio Soto in the Fort Point area of Boston. David Michael Curry solo viola - November 2011 by emptyhouse.David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-55683558517517176782011-12-04T12:35:00.006-05:002011-12-05T11:29:01.148-05:00Animal Ensemble EnsembleI'm part of the Animal Hospital Ensemble.i play viola.Kevin Micka's solo loop-based orchestrations performed live like an exploded diagram with each element performed by an actual person.http://animalhospitalmusic.com/animalhospitalensemble.htmlVideo by Yoon S. Byun, produced by Lauren Frohne, Boston Globe Staffsee also:http://www.jimsullivanink.com/content/view/2064/38/Poster by Dan MacCarthyDavid Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-74306000047447166102011-10-13T15:20:00.004-04:002011-10-13T15:25:03.062-04:00HALLOWEEN IRON POUR 2011 with EHC MUSIChttp://www.thesteelyard.org/events/calendar/2011/10/28/191Halloween Iron Pour: Molten Masquerade 10/28/201127 Sims Ave, Providence RI, 02909 - 401.273.7101 - contact@thesteelyard.org Join the Steel Yard and the Iron Guild for the 6th annual Halloween Iron Pour.The theme for this years event is Molten Masquerade, and will feature larger than life flaming masquerade masks!Music provided by the David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-78798901497453487252011-02-07T10:34:00.003-05:002011-02-07T10:40:13.050-05:00GRIZZLERLINK to Grizzler photo-set of rehearsal at Flandrew Fleisenberg's loft in Fort Point, Boston, on my Flickr Page:the improvisational noise group working out ideas, theories & flavors...David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-68173114356977378642011-02-02T11:33:00.004-05:002011-02-02T11:42:53.685-05:00Empty House Cooperative Documentary Film Soundtrack Music:I did some solo Empty House Cooperative music for a series of documentary shorts produced by PJ Moynihan sharing the work for families done by The Consortium - The Support Network for Families of Western MassachusettsHere's one:From The Consortium: Children with behavioral or emotional challenges have their own unique needs. The Support Network works to support the needs of families in Western David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-61548637965636524032010-12-21T01:31:00.007-05:002012-07-14T14:19:55.598-04:00Empty House Cooperative - 'Improvisation on Henk Visch'For the Groninger Museum Sessions, in Groningen, The Netherlands... While on tour with Willard Grant Conspiracy, I was able to participate in music for this art exhibit. The sounds were spontaneously inspired by the drawings of Henk Visch.
David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-48693650559463648172010-10-05T22:11:00.003-04:002010-10-11T10:11:15.081-04:00Hidden Tooth "Lost Records" - out nowHidden Tooth "Lost Records"The debut release from the noise duo of Chris Brokaw & David Michael Curry.Limited edition of 100 handmade & numbered CDR packaging."Tranquil drones give way to chattering forest explorations and finally to collapsing corrugated sheets of metal."Instrumentation includes guitar, viola, upright bass, home-made coatrack bass, electronics…$12 US funds (postage included)$15 David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-16209878507423275722010-09-08T22:46:00.004-04:002010-09-08T23:17:59.372-04:00Pictures from "Thunderclaps and Iron Pours" by The Iron Guild, with music by Empty House CooperativeStormy weather was the theme of the Iron Guild's September 4, 2010 iron pour in Rutland, Vermont at Mac Steel scrapyard. "Thunderclaps and Iron Pours" used a massive stage setting constructed of towers and tanks, sculpture torches, fire, molten iron lightening bolt rivers, and sparkling showers of flaming curtains of steel wool. Thundering cannon shots and fireworks helped celebrate the elements.David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-86852407040858261482010-07-30T12:24:00.003-04:002010-07-30T12:40:01.576-04:00Hidden Tooth on MuxtapeHidden Tooth on Muxtape:http://hiddentooth.muxtape.com/The noise duo of David Michael Curry and Chris Brokaw.Waves of feedback, relaxed and brotherly...Live house shows will happen occasionally with an announcement for those interested to get location and time details via e-mail - usually in the Somerville, Massachusetts area. Also look for us every once in a while at art galleries, local David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-40186603718606631932010-02-09T00:51:00.002-05:002010-02-09T00:56:17.357-05:00DMC - fixin' my viola...A luthier might cringe at my methods for fixing my own viola:David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-28435114300048019042010-02-08T15:15:00.002-05:002010-02-08T15:22:32.437-05:00Thalia Zedek Band TOUR in Spain - February & March 2010The Thalia Zedek Band is touring Spain in February and March 2010.please come and see us, say hello, enjoy some massive and sweet shoe-shaking music… we've been working on some new songs - DATES BELOW:22 Feb - MADRID (Moby Dick)24 Feb - VITORIA (Pabellón Universitario/Kultur Kanpus)25 Feb - BARCELONA (Sidecar)26 Feb - ZARAGOZA (Lata de Bombillas)28 Feb - GIJON (Savoy)1 Mar - MADRID (Nasti) *David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-23731589008615496112009-11-10T22:47:00.003-05:002009-11-10T22:53:28.808-05:00David Michael Curry in these upcoming shows with friends - one "DRONE", one "NOISE", one "ROCK":DRONE show:Saturday, November 14, 2009, 8 p.m., $6Metal & Glass Ensemble - CD Release Concert at The Nave GalleryCelebrate the release of Metal & Glass Ensemble's second live CD for 2009.Recorded at Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church in June 2009 in a performance with unique metal and glass instruments along with strings, winds and percussion.http://www.navegallery.org/upcoming.htmlhttp:/David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-35785291655968327702009-08-02T14:30:00.001-04:002009-08-02T14:33:50.315-04:00Metal & Glass Ensemble at The Nave, June 19, 2009.91 minutes and 17 seconds of pure droney bliss, free for you to enjoy.Info on the players, the piece, and download, at the link:http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/49528Metal & Glass Ensemble is a Boston-based improvisational group with a rotating membership who create acoustic drone-based music with bowed cymbals and other metal objects, and glasses tuned to a just-intoned 23-note octave. This David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-32615332748644063762009-07-23T11:21:00.013-04:002009-08-12T14:03:56.280-04:00WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY TOUR - Fall 2009 UK/EuropeI'll be playing viola & singing saw for this tour, which starts in Ireland and ends in Greece, with just about everywhere in between:WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY TOUR(for new record - "Paper Covers Stone")Autumn 2009 with The Doghouse RosesALL UPDATED INFORMATION AND TICKET LINKS FOR THE UK/EUROPE TOUR VIA WGC MYSPACE TOUR CALENDAR - LINK...WGC SITE LINK3 songs from "paper covers stone" here:WGC David Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5507337.post-91502113553216595922009-07-18T13:59:00.009-04:002011-12-08T01:33:25.862-05:00David Michael Curry and Jules Vasylenko at Opensound May 2009 on Soundcloud David Michael Curry and Jules Vasylenko at Opensound May 2009 by emptyhouseJules Vasylenko's reed instrumentsDMC's clarinumpetDavid Michael Curryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17581370296609696487noreply@blogger.com0