GREAT NEWS! We’ve been able to work out a rescheduled date for Dan Deacon. The new date is Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14th, 2010. What’s a better gift than a box of chocolates for your sweetheart? Dan Deacon of course!

IMPORTANT: NOTE THE VENUE CHANGE! DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS, THIS SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED TO CASTAWAYS! EMAIL BOC@ITHACA.EDU WITH QUESTIONS

Castaways
413 Taughannock Blvd.
Ithaca, NY

BOC and DSP are proud to present Dan Deacon in his debut Ithaca appearance! The electronic mastermind will appear AT CASTAWAYS on Feb. 14th at 8:00pm with Nuclear Power Pants. For more information email boc@ithaca.edu. Trimming down his band from a 14-piece back to the original solo act, this Deacon tour is sure to be full of new experiments, crowd participation and general mayhem. Check out the AMAZING poster at www.dandeacon.com and try your hand at the contest! The first to name all the pop culture characters (including Bob Ross, Bilbo Baggins, and Link) in the poster correctly wins some cool stuff! Tickets are just $10! Buy your tickets now HERE and get cracking on that poster!

Here’s a few autobiographical notes:

Before we begin, I, Dan Deacon, have written this. I want there to be no illusions about it. Just about every band/performer writes their own press statement and they are always the most glowing and gold words you will ever read. This has always struck me as odd. Whenever I try to do this I just feel like a giant asshole liar and end up just writing something not funny. Having read hundreds of these bios when I was a promoter of shows I often found many press kits to be overly story like or just massive jerk off sessions leading no where. I hated them. So with all that said, below is my take on what I consider to be an acceptable press bio. If you have any problems with it please email my internet press agent at pressbioproblems@dandeacon.com

Absurdist composer and electronic musician, Dan Deacon, is based in Baltimore, Maryland. Musically influenced by Devo, Talking Heads, Scratch Orchestra, People Like Us, Raymond Scott and Conlon Nancarrow, Dan’s music strives to take contemporary experimental composition and electronic music out of the circle of the esoteric intellectual gangs and hipster communities, placing it into the more informal “fun time.” His high-energy performances consist of song-structured material performed with Casio keyboard, computer, vocoder and many whosits and whatsits to process his voice and signal generator.

Musically influenced by Devo, Talking Heads, Scratch Orchestra, People Like Us, Raymond Scott and Conlon Nancarrow, Dan’s music strives to take contemporary experimental composition and electronic music out of the circle of the esoteric intellectual gangs and hipster communities and place it into the more informal “fun time”.

His performance and compositional techniques shows strong influences from the Fluxus Movement, Italian Futurism, Performance Art, Spiderman, Absurdism, and the current movement in underground rock. While maintaining a constant performance and tour schedule Dan has spent most of his time working on pieces for brass ensemble, string quartet, solo cello, solo study and his study in mid and high frequency sine waves.

Dan Deacon has performed with Cat Power, People Like Us, Matmos, Tracy and the Plastics, Rasputina, Dufus, Kool Keith, MC Paul Barum, Prince Paul, Blue Oyster Cult, Oxes, Grand Buffet, Arab On Radar, Rainer Maria, the Aquabats and many others.