JAZZ | Peter Margasak
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Daisy met the Seldoms’ artistic director, Carrie Hanson, in summer 2009, when he was giving a solo concert at Experimental Sound Studio. He ended up writing and performing a solo percussion piece for Marchland, which the company premiered in March 2010 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. For This Is Not a Dance Concert, Daisy and Hanson began working independently, but for the past month they’ve been rehearsing together, editing and reshaping their material. Daisy paid for rehearsal space and recording with a $1,100 grant from New Music USA, and he raised $3,630 through Kickstarter to cover artist fees.
The musicians will be broken up into four subgroups for most of the performance—two in the lobby, one backstage, and one in the main stage area. The audience, also in four groups, will be guided around the theater with the dancers, and everyone, crowd included, will end up onstage. Daisy has already recorded three short versions of the piece and plans to collect them on a release from his CD-R label Relay in the fall.
Once Calez’s mom got called to school for a parent-teacher conference because he’d been caught passing a note to a friend filled with rap lyrics—and he hadn’t exactly skimped on the profanity. “I thought I was gonna get an ass whooping,” he says. “I was praying and shit right before they went in. I was like, I’ll never rap again . . . but I didn’t get in trouble.”
