Fancy David

Javier’s new movie

Dafydd — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:19:43 +0000

My good friend Javier Lovera has just finished a short called A House No More and he asked me to write some music for it. He’s posted about it here. It gets released sometime next week. He’s an awesome photographer, and took some wicked pictures of my piano while we were recording it.

Oh Google Chrome!

Dafydd — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:37:34 +0000

That’s very thoughtful:

Max Owen Hughes, 2 years old

Dafydd — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 02:07:50 +0000

Max turned 2 last Monday, actually, and I took the Birthday Pictures, but didn’t manage to post until now. What a change since last year! Happy Birthday, Max. We love you.

Skater video

Dafydd — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 02:15:28 +0000

I don’t normally spend a lot of time watching skateboarding videos, but that might change. Max just watched this one 8 times in a row. And it’s pretty remarkable. That’s one of the happiest people I’ve ever seen, just around 35 seconds.

Aaron “JAWS” Homoki – OLLIE from Birdhouse on Vimeo.

Doc Now 2011

Dafydd — Wed, 11 May 2011 00:53:15 +0000

Spring is here. You can tell because the Doc Now 2011 website is up. As part of our degree, our graduating class is showing our work in a several-week-long festival. Most of it takes place in June, although Serena’s show is part of Contact, and opens on Thursday.

There’s tons of awesome work in the festival. I’m lucky to have spent the past year and a half studying with such smart people.

Also lucky for me, my project, Every Face In The Americans, is going up at Toronto Image Works at the beginning of June. On Saturday, David asked me what it’s like to be making flat art that doesn’t move. I like it.

Best email from a student ever

Dafydd — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:05:54 +0000

The following came from a student in one of my music technologies courses. The assignment in question involved notating a Bach chorale using Sibelius. The student gave me permission to post this on condition that I didn’t identify him:

I HAVE SPENT THE LAST 2HOURS CHECKING EACH PART AND STILL THERE IS AN EXTRA BAR OR A BAR MISSING I MAY JUST LOSE A FEW BRAINCELLS I have handed the chorale in but i am really really angry this is ridiculous!! and I need time apart our relationship isn’t working. any-who. I tried really hard I promise.
hope you like what I haveSEBALIUS

This student works really hard and could potentially do very well in the course. You know who you are – I hope you’re reading this. Focus and slow down. You’ll be just fine.

Little Oak Animal at Handmade Music Toronto

Dafydd — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:08:53 +0000

I finally edited some of the performance Robert Cruickshank and I did at Handmade Music Toronto. We play as Little Oak Animal. Rob’s visuals are all analog – 2 slide projectors and a Super 8 machine – and my sound is all digital, done in Pd.

Little Oak Animal at Handmade Music Toronto from Dafydd Hughes on Vimeo.

Thom Gill!

Dafydd — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:56:42 +0000

Tomorrow (well, today by now) – Monday the 24th, whatever it is, Thom Gill plays with Christine and I. This has been a long time coming and we’re both really excited to have him sit in.

Lead Sheet: Rat

Dafydd — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:53:48 +0000

I wrote this one for Andrée. It’s a good kind of Rat.

pdf: Rat

Listen to Christine and I play it here.

Lead Sheet: Tell Old Uncle Jimmy

Dafydd — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 01:43:18 +0000

In honour of the fact that James Robertson is joining Christine and me on Monday, I’ve written out Tell Old Uncle Jimmy, which is our shortest song, and also the closest we get to bedroom soul. You can listen Christine and I play it here.

Here’s the pdf: Tell Old Uncle Jimmy.

Monday we’re probably going to play some Elvis!