Shayna Dulberger Blog
musician composer avante guarde, jazz upright
bassist lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn U.S.A. b.1983 Female Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University Graduate born and raised in Mahopac, NY
www.shaynadulberger.com
Blogged Nov. 20, 2009
Finale, JPEG, TIFF, Coda Music Notation, MUS file
Finale isn't very good but I figured out how to make a 'Coda Notation File' into a TIFF file.
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Click on the Graphics Tool which looks like a yellow square, green triangle, and a red circle.
2)
Go into 'Graphics" on the menu bar and click on Export Pages...
3) You will see a box that says type: choose TIFF instead of ESP
4) I change the resolution to 300
5) Press OK !
6) Go into the File menu and click on open. Make sure your are looking at all types of files not just coda notation.
You can now use the TIFF file in Photoshop, Microsoft Office, and other programs.. I find it easier to work with JPEGS. I'm using it for graphic scores now. It's clearer than my handwriting. I hope this helps.
Blogged Nov. 16, 2009
I spent the week writing up notes for a meeting with Walter Wright of the 119 Gallery. We are working on the possibilities for XFest Lowell 2010, XFest New York 2010 and a residency at the 119 Gallery for August 2010. If I get this residency I can finally have the opportunity for my "DOTS" graphic scores to be recorded and performed.
I stopped playing with Stars Like Fleas last November to work on the "DOTS" series and play more jazz. I miss that band a lot... Not only will "DOTS" be performed but other works for my quintet, The E.R.A. septet and other projects. I plan to write more scores both traditional and non-traditional, graphic and regular music notation, small group and large group. I have so many ideas I'd like to develop and share with musicians and audiences.
Last Saturday I drove up to Somerville, MA to play a show with Apocalypso Trio at 3rd Life Studio. It was apart of the Open Sound 2009/2010 calendar and was a program supported in part by a grant from the Somerville Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Walter Wright, Joe Burgio and I met at a coffee shop before the show and discussed possibilities for recording and performing. We all seem inspired to work with more structures and started listing ideas to perform with projections, graphic scores, curtains, among other things. I look forward to developing in a new direction with different mediums. The performance that night was structured broadly: group improvisation, joe+shayna, group improvisation, joe+betty, group improvisation then shayna+walter. (Betty is another dancer/movement artist. I'm sorry I don't know her last name.) I found the concept we performed liberating during the group improvisation and during my duos. I felt suffocated during joe and betty's duo because it was very minimal. It was a good experience. The audience loved it. It was the best audience turn out I've had in the Boston area the past couple of years. I really loved seeing James Coleman play the Theremin with Jules and Noell. They were super patient and sensitive to each other. The video sound collaboration was very interesting except I don't know how the sound and the video were related. Which came first? It was a really great show either way.
Here's the memo:
Jajuno Trio Noell Dorsey, voice Jules Vasylenko, reeds James Coleman, Theremin
Brood Elaine Wood, Rick Breault, video/sound collaboration
Apocalypso Trio Joe Burgio, movement Shayna Dulberger, double bass, delay Walter Wright, analog synths & video
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Third Life Studios 33 Union Square Somerville, MA (Almost at the heart of Union Square, on the segment of Somerville Ave. coming into Union Square from Porter Square) For directions and parking: http://www.thirdlifestudio.com/directions.html Do not use Mapquest! Doors open at 7:30. / music at 8:00 p.m. $8 donation __________________________________________________________________________________________
OpenSound is a monthly concert series that explores improvised music, bringing artists from disparate backgrounds together for unique events in Somerville. The process of improvisation combines the distinctive voices of its individual performers. The music that results is often surprising, beautiful, ugly, and dynamic. It is not uncommon to hear music made of electronic crackles, noisy multi-phonics, gurgling, hissing, quiet vocalized gibberish, bowed metal, blowing sounds, and a thousand shades of hullabaloo. You may also hear buzzes, clicks, wooshes, and bleeps cohabitating in a bizarre galaxy of pitch and spectra! ____________________________________________________________________________
More information is available on the web: http://www.opensound.org/
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Boston Improv Calendar: http://www.twistedvillage.com/bostonimprov.asp
After spending the night drinking bourbon, eating fancy chocolate and watching "The Venture Brothers" with Joe Burgio, I headed back to NY City to play a show at the Brecht Forum with Ras Moshe's Transcendence Trio. Performing with Ras makes me focus more on strength then sensitivity and carefulness. I'm not sure why Rashid Bakr a.k.a Charles Downs wasn't on the gig but we've played Trio before and it was good. I've been playing with Ras and Dave since my series at Spoken Words Cafe back in 2006. Lately I've been thinking about starting another series except all the places to have one charge a rental fee. Maybe I will try to get a grant or raise money to start one. Right now, I'd like to focus on composing. Anyways, The Brecht Forum had a pretty good turnout and Robert O Haire recorded. The lights were bright, the sound was boomy, Connie Corothers had to sit near the front row but it was a good energy. I look forward to playing with Ras Moshe soon. It keeps me strong. Even the worst sounding rooms and brightest lights are good experiences. It makes me stronger mentally and physically. The only way I can go is up! I have to grow from every situation especially the bad ones. Till next time... "Keep on Rockin in the Free World" as Nardwuar or Neil Young would say.
Here's the old memo:
November Music Now! At The Brecht Forum
November 15th
7pm "Trio Transcendence" Ras Moshe/Shayna Dulberger Dave Ross
8pm Nick Lyons Quartet with Carol Liebowitz Adam Caine/Ratzo Harris
9pm The Open Music Ensemble with Philip Foster/Don Eaton Tripp Dudley/Eddy Rollin Nicole Devault/Jecca Barry/Richard Carr
Blogged Nov. 8, 2009
Shayna Dulberger Quintet @ Roulette 10/29/09
Have a listen:
I'm always happy to perform at Roulette. I'm pleased with the band. It was the first time I've played with Fujiwara and Gerstein. I've played with Welcome for 8yrs and Moritz for 3yrs in various ensembles. Some recordings we are on together include, Chris Welcome's "Quartet" and "Refrain", Introducing The E.R.A. You can check out these albums on my website.
I haven't had a performance of my compositions since TheKillMeTrio in 2006. We performed Cookie Cutter in 2007 but that was the last one. It's interesting to hear the different take. Check out the youtube video of KillMe and then the recording of the Quintet.
The memo:
Thursday, October 29th Shayna Dulberger Quintet Roulette 8:30pm 20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets). Reservations/Tickets: 212.219.8242 Admission: $15 Harvestworks & DTW members, Students, Under 30s & Seniors: $10 Roulette members : FREE
Jonathan Moritz - Tenor & Soprano Saxophone Ben Gerstein - Trombone Chris Welcome - Guitar Shayna Dulberger - Upright Bass Tomas Fujiwara - Drums
