Dan Deacon

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Dan Deacon (born August 28, 1981) is an American composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland. Deacon is known for his live shows, where large-scale audience participation and interaction are often a key component of the performance.

He has recorded eight solo albums, including 2015's Gliss Riffer, which was released by Domino Records in 2003.

The original soundtracks for 2017's Rat Film and 2018's Time Trial were among his film composers that were released by Domino Soundtracks.

Life and education

Deacon was born and raised in West Babylon, New York, on Long Island. He graduated from Babylon High School in 1999, where he performed with the local ska band Channel 59 alongside Tim Daniels of The Complete Guide to Everything. He later attended the Conservatory of Music at Purchase in New York, where, in addition to playing his solo music, he appeared in many bands, including tuba for Langhorne Slim and guitar in the improvisational grindcore band Rated R, as well as a small mixed chamber ensemble. He completed his graduate studies in electro-acoustic and computer music composition. He worked with composer and conductor Joel Thome and Dary John Mizelle.

He and his colleagues from SUNY Purchase joined Wham City, an arts and music group in 2004.

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Career

Meetle Mice and Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat were among his first two appearances as a solo artist on Standard Oil Records in 2003, when he was a student at SUNY Purchase. The albums are a collection of both computer music and live recordings of ensemble pieces by Deacon, his first release on the site, in that the bulk of the pieces are instrumentals and sound collages, with few exceptions including vocal manipulation, and virtually no tracks where Deacon performs or uses vocal manipulation.

Green Cobra Is Awesome Vs. Goose on the Loose followed those two albums with a series of sine wave compositions. The EPs Twacky Cats on Comfort Stand Recordings and Acorn Master on Psych-o-path Records were among his forthcoming new releases.

Spiderman of the Rings was Deacon's first commercially distributed full-length album, released by Carpark Records in May 2007. The album was well-received, and it was included in Pitchfork's Best New Music section. On the website's "Top 50 Albums of 2007," the album was ranked 24th. "Deacon's debut as an electronic-pop musician was the start of Deacon's career; Deacon has said that this album "completely changed my life in every way."

Ultimate Reality, a collaborative video-art work by Carpark Records in November 2007, marked a return to writing music for others to perform. Jeremy Hyman of Ponytail and Kevin Omeara of Videohippos performed the percussion and electronics parts. Jimmy Joe Roche, Deacon's long-time colleague and collaborator, was supposed to collage and heavily modified video.

Bromst, Deacon's next album, was announced on March 24, 2009. It was created by Chester Gwazda at Snow Ghost Studios in Whitefish, Montana, and it includes live instruments such as player piano and a variety of percussion instruments. The album was well-received; Pitchfork gave it an 8.10 rating and ranked it in the "best new music" segment. The album debuted in the top 50 Albums of 2009 on Pitchfork's "Top 50 Albums of 2009."

America's album America was released on August 28, 2012 on Domino Records in the United States. "The inspiration for the music was my love of cross-country travel, seeing the landscapes of the United States from east to west and back again throughout the seasons." "My rage, anxiety, and rage towards the nation and world where I live and work." As I got closer to finishing the album, these themes began to appear more often and with greater clarity. There was no safer place to capture both inspirations and the simple beauty in the word America."

On February 25, 2015, Gliss Riffer was released on Domino Records. "Something that auto-correct wants to make sure no one can actually type," Deacon says of the album title. Deacon is the album's sole producer, who claims that he compiled the album "to combat my own fears, insecurities, and the demands in my life." Gliss Riffer produced "Feel the Lightning" and "Learning to Relax" as well as a viral video animation for "When I Was Done Dying" by Adult Swim and starring nine different animators. Both The Guardian and AllMusic gave Gliss Riffer four-star reviews. Derek Staples' A.G. review of Consequence of Sound's album "the universal motifs of his discography are now refracted through a more personal lens" and praised the album's "new lyrical depth."

In 2017, Deacon published a 10th anniversary edition of Spiderman of the Rings, which also included the soundtrack to 2007's Ultimate Reality.

The album Riddles by Ed Schrader's Music Beat was produced and co-wrote by Deacon, which was released on Carpark Records on March 2, 2018. Riddles is "a fascinating piece of work that is both ugly and beautiful at the same time," Bob Boilen wrote for NPR's All Songs Considered, likening its appearance to late-1970s recordings by Suicide and Pere Ubu. Nina Corcoran said in Pitchfork, "You can hear Deacon's style, especially that of 2012's America," the squeezing drum flutters on 'Dizzy Devil's thick wall of synth.'

Mystic Familiar, Deacon's fifth studio album, was released on January 31, 2020. Aparna Nancherla's first video from the album "Sat By a Tree" was released on October 29, 2019. "Become a Peak," Mystic Familiar's second single, was unveiled on January 13, 2020, with a video by animation studio Rapapawn. Paul Simpson characterized Mystic Familiar as "driving and bursting with excitement" and discovering the album's lyrical themes of nature and inner peace "encouraging and empowering without relying on self-help clichés." "Mystic Familiar" is "far and away his most personal work to date," Scott Dransfield said, "the best part of Mystic Familiar is how the songs' message," he concluded.

"For Sure" by Deacon premiered on January 19, 2021, and it was deacon's remix of the Future Islands single "For Sure."

Deacon began to work outside of the indie and pop music industries in 2011 and jumped into film scoring and contemporary classical music.

"Ghostbuster Cook: Origin of the Riddler," Deacon and percussion quartet So Percussion premiered at the Merkin Concert Hall in New York on January 20, 2011. The performance was ranked as one of the top ten classical music performances of 2011. On May 7, 2011, "Ghostbuster Cook" was also on display at The Barbican for the Steve Reich Reverberations Festival. "Fiddlenist Rim" and "Song of the Winter Solstice for orchestra and electronics were performed by Edwin Outwater on February 3–4 in Deacon's first orchestral works, "Fiddlenist Rim" and "Song of the Winter Solstice for orchestra and electronics.

Deacon would score the film Twixt by Francis Ford Coppola on January 21, 2011. The So Perpetusion Summer Institute in Le Poisson Rouge, New York City, premiered "Purse Hurdler," a composition for a 27-person percussion ensemble on August 1, 2011.

Deacon performed with So Percussion at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, on March 2, 2012. "Take A Deep Breath" and "Bottles" from "Ghostbuster Cook: The Riddler" were performed by his composers.

Deacon premiered "An Opal Toad with Obsidian Eyes" on March 20, 2012, a chamber orchestra's new work. The piece premiered at the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival and was performed by the Calder Quartet, NOW Ensemble, and Deacon on electronics governing a Disklavier player piano. The piece received rave reviews.

Deacon made his Carnegie Hall debut on March 26, 2012 as part of Carnegie Hall's American Mavericks series, which includes So Percussion and Matmos. The performance was a salute to composer John Cage's 100th birthday. "Ghostbuster Cook: Origin of the Riddler" contained compositions by Cage and others influenced by the composer, including two works by Deacon, "Take A Deep Breath" and "Bottles" from "Ghostbuster Cook: The Origins of the Riddler." This performance attracted raves as well as critical feedback.

Deacon appeared with the Kronos Quartet at the Lincoln Center in July 2013 as part of their "Kronos at 40" series of concerts. On the evening of July 28, 2013, the quartet and Deacon performed "Four Phases of Conflict" for the world premiere.

choreographer Justin Peck and Deacon of New York City Ballet collaborated on "The Times Are Racing," a ballet piece set to Deacon's four-part "USA I-IV" suite from his album America, according to Deacon's four-part "USA I-IV" suite. On January 26, 2017, "The Times Are Racing" made its premiere appearance.

On January 17, 2019, Deacon performed and curation in the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Maryland. There were three sets on the evening: the orchestra conducted a selection of classic works co-curated by Deacon; a solo set by Deacon; and a joint set with Deacon and members of the orchestra who expanded arrangements of Deacon's music. In Baltimore magazine's annual Best of Baltimore issue, this concert was voted Best Concert of the Year.

Deacon is best known for his live broadcasting. When performing solo, he performs on a low table, his musical equipment being set up on a low table, and the crowd surrounds him. The Bromst tour was held with a 14-person group of various Baltimore bands, including So Percussion, Future Islands, and Chester Gwazda, in stark contrast to Deacon's experimental performances. Various shows, including Nuclear Power Pants, were accompanied by him. The musicians' use of a vegetable oil powered bus is also notable on this tour.

On the "No Deacon" tour in 2009, Dan Deacon performed with two other well-known acts, Deerhunter, and No Age.

Dan Deacon was forced to cancel the remaining of his North American tour, which included shows at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, due to health problems related to a bout with acute sciatica, which were rescheduled in winter 2010.

Deacon created a smartphone app for his America tour that syncs with the live show. It is usually used during the song "Reality Thrush."

"Drinking Out of Cups" was Deacon's track. Liam Lynch created a video to accompany the piece in 2006. On YouTube, the compilation has been watched more than 20 million times. As the video began, rumors of what the video was and how it was made quickly spread. According to one of the most popular theories, it is a video of someone on LSD trapped in a closet. Deacon has stated repeatedly that this is not correct.

On Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick, an infomercial parody made for Adult Swim and "Showbeast," the web series created and directed by Ben O'Brien, he worked with Wham City Comedy on Live Forever.

Deacon joined video artist Jimmy Joe Roche at the Incubate festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands, in September 2010. Deacon and Roche were collaborating on a new piece of video art while in residency there. 't Schop, a farm in Hilvarenbeek, and the Tilburg area were shot, capturing the subject. The film was on view at the farm before Deacon's appearance during the festival.

Dan Deacon, a Maryland Film Festival series of films that are favorites of these friends and collaborators, including RoboCop, The Shining, and Something Wild, collaborated with Jimmy Joe Roche and film critic Eric Allen Hatch.

Theo Anthony's 2017 documentary Rat Film was released on October 13, 2017, marking the first publication of the new Domino Soundtracks imprint. During the recording of the score, Deacon experimented with the rodents, inserting rats into a custom fiberglass table with sensors on each corner. "I thought it would be interesting to set up a group of theremins to be controlled by rats moving around an enclosure (the numbers and pitches would always be changing depending on where/how the rats moved." "I started to compile the majority of the score using the evidence and patterns from the rat Theremin's performances, as well as impulse data from recordings of rat brain function."

In the 2014 film Song One, Deacon appears as himself.

Deacon's original soundtrack score to Finlay Pretsell's cycling film Time Trial was released in November 2018. Both Rat Film and Time Trial's scores were nominated for Best Original Score in the annual Cinema Eye Awards.

The feature documentaries Well Groomed and And We Go Green, as well as the ESPN 30 for 30 short Subjects to Examine are among Deacon's films. Deacon also contributed original music to Francis Ford Coppola's 2011 horror film Twixt, starring Val Kilmer.

Deacon produced three films that premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival: Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley's narrative feature Strawberry Mansion, Theo Anthony's documentary film "All Light, Everywhere," and documentary film Philly D.A.

Deacon also scored Jessica Kingdon's feature film Ascension, which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, earning both Best Documentary Feature and the Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director in 2021.

At the 2022 Cinema Eye Honors, Deacon's scores for Ascension and All Light, Everywhere were both lauded for Outstanding Original Score, with Ascension taking home the award in the category.

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Awards

• Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat #18 in Top 30 most played albums on WFMU in November 2003
• Meetle Mice Third Best Album of 2003 on Top Ten Albums by OCDJ
• Best Solo Performer 2005 Baltimore City Paper Critics Poll
• Best Solo Performer 2006 Baltimore City Paper Readers Poll
• Acorn Master #1 in Top 30 played albums on WFMU in July 2006
• Spiderman of the Rings named Best New Music on Pitchfork in May 2007 with an 8.7 rating
• "Wham City" was listed #30 on Pitchfork's "Top 100 Tracks of 2007"
• Awarded "Best Awesome" by COOL! magazine
• Spiderman of the Rings named one of the best records of 2007 by CMJ New Music Monthly
• "The Crystal Cat" Single listed in top 100 singles of 2007 by Rolling Stone magazine
• Spiderman of the Rings named one of the 25 best records of 2007 by Pitchfork
• Bromst named Best New Music on Pitchfork in March 2009 with an 8.5 rating
• Performance with So Percussion at the Merkin Concert Hall as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival named one of the top 10 classical music performances of 2011 by New York magazine
• Gliss Riffer named Best Album of 2015 by Baltimore City Paper
• Rat Film (Original Soundtrack) nominated for Best Original score in the 2018 Cinema Eye Honors
• Spiderman of the Rings / Ultimate Reality 10th anniversary show named Best Concert of 2018 by WTMD (89.7 FM)
• BSO Pulse performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra named Best Concert of 2019 by Baltimore magazine
• Time Trial (Original Soundtrack) nominated for Best Original score in the 2019 Cinema Eye Honors
• Ascension (Original Soundtrack) wins top award Outstanding Original Score in the 2022 Cinema Eye Honors
• All Light, Everywhere (Original Soundtrack) nominated for Outstanding Original Score in the 2022 Cinema Eye Honors