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Brian Dewan - Biography - AOL Music A strikingly independent and original talent, Brian Dewan blends whimsy tradition and a subversive sense of humor into his many projects, which include (and sometimes combine) music, artwork, and furniture-making. A resident of Brooklyn's Williamsburg section, Dewan plays an orchestra's worth of quirky instruments, including the autoharp, accordion, Moog, and theremin -- as well as guitar and organ -- but his signature instrument is the electric zither, which he built in 1989 from pieces of an electric guitar and a harpsichord. In between his collaborations and other projects, Dewan released his debut album, Brian Dewan Tells the Story, in 1993 and followed it with 1998's The Operating Theatre, which was re-released in 2001 by Instinct Records. music.aol.com /artist/brian-dewan/42697/biography   (359 words)

Ink 19 :: Brian Dewan Last I heard of Brian Dewan, electric zitherist, was a couple of Hello Club EPs, sometime in the mid-'90s. Apparently, Dewan has kept active, as this collection of mature songs -- a dozen total -- show an amazing clarity of style, a sound that is part Renaissance fair, part sepiatoned memories. On top of this oddly-shaped bed, Dewan's words and voice ride like a gentle memory, travelling back not in history but in life, reminding me of the seriousness of grade school and its illusory innocence, what with "Solomon Grundy" and "Rumpelstiltskin," the latter a careful recounting of the children's tale. www.ink19.com /issues/june2001/wetInk/musicD/brianDewan.html   (174 words)

Brian Dewan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brian Dewan's series of "I Can See" filmstrips use the technology of the educational filmstrips from the mid-twentieth century as a point of departure for imaginative personal invention. Dewan created a number of shrines for New Year's Eve parties and performances, and those shrines often have some sort of illumination which could be turned on at midnight. Brian Dewan currently works with his cousin Leon Dewan under the name Dewanatron. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brian_Dewan   (882 words)

Brian Dewan Already a favorite of BBC tastemaker John Peel, Dewan is an American original and truly a Renaissance man. Originally from Lexington, Massachussetts, and currently residing in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Dewan performed in and composed for the band in the successful off-Broadway act Blue Man Group and appeared on The Tonight Show. Dewan is the voice of an America seldom explored. www.bar-none.com /bios/brianbio.html   (221 words)

BBC - h2g2 - Brian Dewan - Musician, Inter Alia Multi-instrumentalist Brian is proficient at playing such instruments as the Accordion, the Autoharp, the Moog Synth, Mamola Banjo, the Organ (church and electric), the Theremin, and most famously, the electric zither. Moreover, Brian Dewan's zither, an amazing contraption built by the fellow himself in his basement in 1989, and cannibalised from bits of an electric guitar and a harpsichord is as would be expected a cut above the rest. So, that is who (or what) Brian Dewan is: a multi-talented modern-day Renaissance man. With a veritable cornucopia of wit, wisdom, talent, and general likability, it is baffling to those that have heard of him that this man isn't busier; record companies should be kicking his door in asking him to sign. www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1025092   (634 words)

Brian Dewan - This Might Be A Wiki Brian Dewan has worked with They Might Be Giants on several occasions. Linnell and Dewan collaborated to write the song The Edison Museum, with Linnell writing the music and Dewan, the lyrics. Dewan and Linnell shared a house in the early 90's, and some of Brian's artwork appears in the video for The Guitar, which was partially filmed in that house. www.tmbw.net /wiki/index.php/Brian_Dewan   (230 words)

ToxicUniverse.com - Brian Dewan - 1993 - Brian Dewan Tells the Story Music Review Dewan's style might not be for everyone, but if you are looking for something that feels both very old and startlingly new, rich in folksy Americana (the dark side more often than not), this album is a revelation. Dewan’s first complete CD, Brian Dewan Tells the Story, begins with the fierce "99 Cops" intro, in which he bangs on the zither in a manner to rival any guitar god and angrily spits out the lyrics. Dewan alternates between using his deep baritone voice and a delicate choirboy soprano, and the lyrics portray a landscape of peaceful beauty with religious reverence. www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10001980   (819 words)

ToxicUniverse.com - Brian Dewan - 1993 - Brian Dewan Tells the Story Music Review Brian Dewan is a singer, songwriter, and electric zitherist who lives in Brooklyn, NY. According to Dewan's website, the traditional zither is "composed of a flat sound box with about 30 to 40 strings stretched over it and played horizontally with the fingertips or a plectrum." Dewan's has 88 strings. Dewan's other careers include composer for the Blue Man Group's long-running conceptual-theatre piece Tubes, designer of album covers (he constructed the shrine on the cover of the Lincoln LP by his good friends and sometime collaborators They Might Be Giants), filmmaker, and craftsman of fine furniture. www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10001992   (1004 words)

Dewanatron Electronic Music Instruments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Brian Dewan used to build furniture for a living and as of late is making and projecting I-CAN-SEE filmstrips. Two CDs, Brian Dewan Tells The Story and The Operating Theater feature songs with autoharp and electric zither accompaniment. Leon Dewan apprenticed to his inventor father since early childhood, helping him to construct homemade test equipment and numerous electromechanical, solid state and vacuum tube based radio frequency prototypes. www.dewanatron.com /about.html   (593 words)

Amazon.com: The Operating Theater: Music: Brian Dewan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) I've never thought I'd spit out a cliche like this, but Brian Dewan's Operating Theatre is truly an album for all ages and most musical tastes. Brian's first record revealed an artist writing things that were very personal and yet seemed to transcend the times. Lest I give Brian the wow-ain't-he-clever kiss of death, I hasten to add that many of the tunes are a hell of a lot of fun. www.amazon.com /Operating-Theater-Brian-Dewan/dp/B000059RTR   (1095 words)

brian dewan @ pierogi 2000 Brian Dewan is a latter-day Renaissance man. He is an accomplished visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, and singer / songwriter with two CDs to his credit (Brian Dewan Tells the Story and The Operating Theater.) His music has been described as a cross between Burl Ives, Charles Addams and Edgar Allen Poe. DewanÕs nostalgia-tinted filmstrips are reproductions of his own drawings with accompanying narration and music. This exhibition will feature live filmstrip presentations by Dewan as well as video projections within an idiosyncratic classroom setting complete with pull-down charts, chalkboards, desks and chairs. www.pierogi2000.com /flatfile/dewanbr.html   (191 words)

OFFOFFOFF music THE RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE band with Wayne Barker, Brian Dewan, Michael Hashim, Will Holshouser, ... This tortured analogy might make sense when you know that Raymond Scott (1908-1994) was the visionary composer of swing music so grandly cinematic but diabolically mischievous that it became the soundtrack for many classic Warner Brothers cartoons. For example, the Orchestrette's reworking of "The Penguin" (hear it here) starts with the title waterfowl's trademark waddle, but done in dueling jabs from two accordionists, as if the score had shattered into a thousand pieces and the pair picked notes at random off the floor. And the group's update of Scott's masterpiece "Powerhouse" (hear it here) now sports the exotic addition of Brian Dewan's slide electric zither (played something like a many-stringed steel guitar, except when Dewan plays it with a small electric fan). www.offoffoff.com /music/2000/rso.php3   (431 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Operating Theater - Brian Dewan at Epinions.com At that time he was supporting his first album "Brian Dewan Tells the Story" on Bar/None Records. You may have noticed that all of the names I've dropped in comparison to Dewan are from other fields of art. I should also mention that Brian Dewan is an inventor of instruments, a superb woodworker, an artistic director and builder of sets. www.epinions.com /content_60786577028   (655 words)

Daily Gusto: Brian Dewan's Peculiar Patriotism I first discovered the joys of Brian Dewan during the week of the election, when I kept seeing this strange show on Manhattan public access. It featured a musician in a red K-Mart jacket singing old political songs while alternating playing the music on the accordion and a zither (?). Dewan has two albums out there that I completely recommend, with total awe. www.dailygusto.com /blog/archives/music/000454.php   (142 words)

Amazon.ca: Tells the Story: Music: Brian Dewan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Brian Dewan's lyrics are paranoid, idiosynchratic, and dark. Often funny and always intriguing, Dewan sings his narrative tales in a distinctive baritone over light accompaniment from his own homemade instruments. He remarked at the end of his opening set that he had another CD coming along, and that we all ought to search for it "Forever and ever, until you find it." Sadly, I never have. www.amazon.ca /Tells-Story-Brian-Dewan/dp/B0000048DE   (657 words)

Brian Dewan : The Operating Theater - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect From the opening chords of Brian Dewan's second full-length release, The Operating Theater, it is apparent few other recordings have achieved this degree of accessibility while maintaining such a unique sonic focus. Dewan's compelling storytelling and intelligent melodic sense -- combined with his trusty sidekick, the electric zither -- make a seamless transition from his 1993 debut, Tells the Story. The Operating Theater borrows the dark wit and chiming zither from Tells the Story and balances it effortlessly with the heartbreaking, sometimes haunting tone color of an orchestra of mellotrons and organs, while still maintaining the minimalist qualities vital to Dewan's compositions. www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,1110964,00.html   (248 words)

The Beat Circus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Brian Carpenter, Beat Circus features members of HUMANWINE, Sex Mob, Slavic Soul Party, The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Antony and The Johnsons, Golem, Xiu Xiu, and The Eyesores. Multi-instrumentalist Brian Carpenter is a performer, composer, and bandleader based in Boston. Brian began singing and playing trumpet at age 12 in church choirs and school orchestras, concert bands, and jazz bands. www.thebeatcircus.com /band.html   (851 words)

adfreak: Brian Dewan, a true American original Since we’re on the subject of politics: There’s a great set of old videos posted on Daily Gusto that show Brian Dewan in a red blazer, backed by trippy watercolor images, singing old political songs. A musician, visual artist, craftsman and filmstrip producer, Dewan performs his show “Dewanatron” frequently in New York, at which he plays a set of rickety homemade instruments. (“They make all previous and future instruments obsolete,” Dewan promises on his Web site.) For years, Dewan lived in Brooklyn with one of the Johns from They Might Be Giants; he opened many of their concerts early on and designed the album cover for Lincoln in 1988. adweek.blogs.com /adfreak/2006/02/brian_dewan_a_t.html   (290 words)

WPKN FM 89.5 Listener Supported Radio Musician, visual artist, craftsman, singer and songwriter Brian Dewan will be performing at the next WPKN "Live from Where?" on the air cofeehouse broadcast. Dewan sings original compositions while playing the accordion and zither (including an electrified 88 string instrument of his own design). The late great BBC producer John Peel said "Dewan is an American original and truly a Renaissance man." PopMatters says "Brian Dewan rocks out on his self-crafted 88-string electric zither... www.puddingbench.com /wpkn.htm   (1157 words)

The Operating Theater Brian Dewan’s first musical effort, Brian Dewan Tells the Story, introduced us to his powerful combination of compelling lyrics and stirring, innovative music. Like Brian Dewan Tells the Story, The Operating Theater ends with a batch of songs that are short and sweet. Part of the magic of Brian Dewan’s style is that, like any great storyteller, even after bringing you down to the pits of despair, loneliness, and even terror, he can leave you feeling as if we’ve just been tucked in and assured that all is once again right with the world, at least until tomorrow. members.fortunecity.com /culturedose/review_10001981.html   (647 words)

BRIAN DEWAN Brian Dewan is a preacher in a church which is currently being bombed.    As the audience swoons with side-splitting laughter, being the naughty children that they are, Dewan’s face remains as calm and sturdy as Paul Revere’s, and his voice remains authoritative. Dewan is equally talented as a poet… and is currently sitting on a goldmine of poems. www.octopusmagazine.com /issue06/html/poets/brian_dewan.html   (984 words)

MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com: 1/21 Newgarden, Dewan team for madness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) This weekend if you live in or around Williamsburg, BKNY you can go to the Pierogi Gallery and witness a collaboration between Mark Newgarden's film strip collection and Brian Dewan's Dual Primate Machine. Dewan is a mad scientist/musician type who grew up next door to Scott McCloud, and entertains the masses with droll cartoon strips and electronic music made on homemade analog instruments, like the Dual Primate Machine. Saturday's event involves showings of rare old cartoonst from Newgarden's collection, with a live musical accompaniment by Dewan and Co. We were at a Dewan concert last weekend, which consisted of live, improvised electronical music, and it was as if Raymond Scott was alive and floating before us in ghostly form. www.comicon.com /thebeat/2006/01/121_newgarden_dewan_team_for_m.html   (318 words)

The Operating Theater by Brian Dewan at Audio Lunchbox If you feel you haven't lived until you've heard a heavy metal electric zither riff, then do I have a CD for you. On "Loathsome Idols", Brian Dewan rocks out on his self-crafted 88-string electric zither, doing his own musical answer to "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" in a song that takes down "the abomination" of false idols in today's world. It's an instrument that the gifted Dewan created from refurbished electric guitar and harpsichord parts, and it features eight Humbucker pickups. www.audiolunchbox.com /album?a=5140   (151 words)

Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan tickets - Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan information - New York Leon and Brian Dewan perform mesmerizing electronic music on the Dual Primate Console & other homemade synthesizers. Brian Dewan was born in Boston and lives in Brooklyn. Two albums of songs, Brian Dewan Tells The Story and The Operating Theater are still in print. www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/109793   (208 words)

Brian Dewan: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com Brian Dewan: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more Search the web for Brian Dewan: Web Pages The Operating Theater borrows the dark wit and chiming zither from Tells the Story and balances… Read More » www.music.com /person/brian_dewan/1   (527 words)

Brian Dewan tickets - Brian Dewan information - New York Cartoons, short subjects and educational films unroll in a landscape of unearthly music. April 21 Leon and Brian Dewan perform on exotic homemade analog electronic instruments, including the Swarmatron, the Model A and Alphatron, Courtesy modulator and the Dual Primate Console. The music that emerges from these machines is by turns rhythmic, stimulating, mysterious, mesmerizing and full of little surprises. www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/103217   (269 words)

ArtCal - Pierogi 2000 - Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan ArtCal - Pierogi 2000 - Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan Leon Dewan and Brian Dewan are Dewanatron -- a collaborative team who make hand-crafted, semi-automatic, electronic musical instruments. This exhibition will feature 12 wall-mounted, analog, solid-state instruments that produce occasional electronic utterances at ever-shifting intervals of time. www.artcal.net /event/view/2/1630   (120 words)

Cabinet Magazine Online - Deuteronomy: A CD-ROM by Brian Dewan Below is Brian Dewan's statement about the project as it appears in Cabinet issue 5: Educational filmstrips enjoyed widespread use beginning in the 1920s and lasting through the 1970s. Though it may be challenging for modern persons to understand or appreciate the testimony of ancient persons, this empathy is what bridges the gulf that separates the generations." www.cabinetmagazine.org /art/cds/deuteronomy.php   (674 words)

www.likeyou.com - DEWANATRON - Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan - PIEROGI 2000 - Brooklyn, N.Y., USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) www.likeyou.com - DEWANATRON - Brian Dewan and Leon Dewan - PIEROGI 2000 - Brooklyn, N.Y., USA Leon Dewan and Brian Dewan are Dewanatron - a collaborative team who make hand-crafted, semi-automatic, electronic musical instruments. This exhibition will feature twelve wall mounted analog solid-state instruments that produce occasional electronic utterances at ever-shifting intervals of time. www.likeyou.com /archives/b_l_dewan_pierogi_05.htm   (123 words)

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