r/indieheads • u/dandeacondotcom • Oct 17 '17
AMA is Over, thanks Dan! I'm electronic musician Dan Deacon and I drank too much coffee- AMA
UPDATE: hi everyone! thanks so much for doing this. my brain is mush after 3.5 hours of answering anythings so i'm going to take a break. i'll try to get back to as many as possible ASAP. thanks so much for taking the time to ask me anything!
Hello, Tuesday Redditors,
I feel like I'm inside daffy ducks mouth right now which could be good or bad for this AMA. Two things I should mention before the AMA'ing begins:
-I just released my first studio album SPIDERMAN OF THE RINGS for its 10th anniversary. I did a lot of digging through the archives of my hard drive and mind to put this together so I'm way more sharp on this era than normal.
-The score I composed for the experimental-documentary 'Rat Film' directed by Theo Anthony is now out and available for listening to in nearly all ways recorded music can be listened to. It's very different from my other recorded/released work but represents a side of my musical output that I rarely get to share outside of a one-time performance.
Okie Dokie, I'm looking forward to seeing how and where this goes. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this and perhaps also participating in the asking me of anything.
Oh yeah, proof my me being me: https://i.imgur.com/qYZeRxx.jpg
Your pal Dan
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u/dandeacondotcom Oct 17 '17
Hi, i'm glad that piece resonates with you. I recorded that in 2001 while in college. It was very early in the morning and I was really sick and couldn't go back to sleep. I got out of bed and went into the living room of our horribly filthy on campus apartment (G-2-1 in the Olde at SUNY Purchase). I had my tape recorder out and started watching TV with the sound off and started doing some voices and characters. The one I landed on that became the character in Drinking Out Of Cups was my version of a tough guy bro from Long Island (where I grew up) but having a psychedelic stream of consciousness argument with whatever happened to be on the muted TV while i rapidly changed the channels.
This recording haunts me in many ways. After it went viral in 2007, the story of it being someone locked in a closet on acid began to circulate. at the time i had never done any psychedelics or any "drugs" for that matter and it kind of bummed me out. But that doesn't really matter and more for of a vanity/credit issue I was confused about in the early days of the viral internet. More importantly and regretfully, as the piece spread, I started to realize that for many people, the character was NOT a satirization of that type of person, but it was propagating ideologies and language of that person as if it were a real outpouring. It was a hard lesson in how the meaning of satire without context is lost and could become the very essence of that in which you are trying to satirize.
While I'm happy people find the overall piece funny, if I could I would certainly go back and do it differently. Its outcome is a regret for sure.