Dan Deacon

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Dan Deacon

Born 1981-08-28 · West Babylon, New York, USA

Daniel Deacon (born August 28, 1981) is an American composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland. Deacon is renowned for his live shows, where large-scale audience participation and interaction is often a major element of the performance. Since 2003, he has released five solo albums, including 2015's Gliss Riffer, released by Domino Records. His work as a film composer includes scoring the 2021 documentaries All Light, Everywhere, and Ascension, both released as soundtrack albums by Milan Records, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt (with Osvaldo Golijov). His fifth solo studio album, titled Mystic Familiar, was released January 31, 2020, on Domino. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dan Deacon, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death By Audio poster
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Death By Audio, an underground art and music venue, is forced to close in 2014. The film focuses on the struggles of maintaining a community in the face of Brooklyn property development, hostile construction workers, and a one billion-dollar company.

Goodnight Brooklyn: The Story of Death By Audio

2016

Unedited Footage of a Bear poster
7.0

This is unedited raw footage of a bear I filmed with my cell phone. I'm not sure what kind of bear this is.

Unedited Footage of a Bear

2014

Station to Station poster
6.8

Sending a burning arrow into the stunting effects that the compartmentalization of culture has on how creativity manifests, visual artist Doug Aitken embarked on an experiment exploring a less materialistic and more nomadic direction of art creation, exhibition, and participation. Station to Station involved a train that crossed North America housing a constantly changing creative community including artists, musicians, and curators, who collaborated in the creation of recordings, artworks, films, and 10 unique happenings, across the country.

Station to Station

2014

Space Songs: Through the Distance poster
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"Space Songs" is a YouTube concert event, sharing songs about space and isolation to celebrate how extreme situations can bring out the very best in us all and why there’s no challenge we can’t face together. Hosted by Tested’s Adam Savage, the concert featured special guests and performances by Sting, Clipping, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, and more.

Space Songs: Through the Distance

2020

Todd P Goes to Austin poster
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As record labels die, there is a generation of artists creating and performing music on their own terms. With the help of legendary DIY rock promoter Todd P, Brooklyn has become ground zero for these exciting young musicians. TODD P GOES TO AUSTIN is a cultural snap-shot of America's underground, do-it-yourself music scene featuring unforgettable live performances from Matt and Kim, Dan Deacon, Mika Miko, The Death Set and many more. Using never-before-seen footage, including material shot by the bands themselves, this documentary exposes what life is like surviving and touring at the underground level. Interviews with Todd about the necessity of independent music and creativity connect the bands as they tour down to Austin, TX to appear in the DIY music scene's answer to the SXSW Music Festival.

Todd P Goes to Austin

2009

Subject to Review poster
10.0

SUBJECT TO REVIEW charts the rise of the instant replay system Hawk-Eye in professional tennis, probing how the technology exposes deeper questions of spectacle, justice, and imperfect human knowledge.

Subject to Review

2019

Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick poster
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Hot young tech wizard Alan Resnick shares his secrets of immortality, along with his digital avatar Teddy.

Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick

2013