DJ Olive will show the radical different ways he uses live for
dance music (playing live for dance parties)
improvisation (playing with bands)
studio production (making tracks)
Day and Time:
Wednesday, October 22nd, 6 - 8 pm
Venue & Address:
Tekserve
Seminar Room
119 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10011
DJ Olive was raised in Rhode Island and Australia. In 1991 he
started Lalalandia Entertainment Research Corporation, a huge
technorganic party idea-salad co-op in Williamsburg.
Lalalandia made many memorable Brooklyn warehouse after-hours
environments and it was at those parties that Olive started using
records. In 1994 he started up both Multipolyomni and We™. We™'s
1997 release "as is" can be considered a classic. Multipolyomni
made many installations and was praised in the NY times for their
piece inside the Brooklyn Anchorage in 1996. DJ Olive is also known
for developing tool records, an improvising game with turntables
he calls "vinyl scores". His vinyl score "Composition 11" premiered
in 1998 at Roulette. In 2003, after many years of collaborating
with musicians, live and on recordings, Olive finally released his
debut solo CD, "Bodega": a boot shaking continuous mix tape of
rough, down-home dirty Brooklyn dance party beats. In 2004, Room40,
from Brisbane put out his "Buoy" composition: A 60-min voyage of
beatless warmth Olive calls "a sleeping pill". Countless CDs followed.
Olive has also been included in many exhibitions including: Treble
at the Brooklyn Sculpture Center 2004, City Sonics 2004, in Mons,
the Venice Biennale 2003, the Whitney Biennial 2002, Bit Streams
at the Whitney 2001 and Whitney Biennial '08. He continues to compose
in his Brooklyn studio, Skin Tone Riddles, when he's not playing live
in places like Tasmania.
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