Do we really need any more words at this point?
After noticing how vaguely irritable I was getting this week, the solution was to step back and mix up a 30-minute, 5-part music and ambience set as the antidote audiodote to help settle my nerves. (Please find a comfortable place to listen - headphones/decent speakers highly encouraged)
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The pieces in the set are titled:
Venus and Mars Walk into 24 Bars Together. (a 1978-style Funk-Jazz statement) 9:24
Angry Sky - A short (57 seconds) sample of ambience composed for Yorame Mevorach’s brilliant 7even Stories High installation commissioned by the Des Moines Art Center for their well-received IMMERSIVE Project in the Summer of 2022.)
Enter The Queen - 4:50 I love this luscious bit of synthery. It’s a sweetly sonorous homage to the ever-unfolding grace of my daughter Marisha.
Yayoi {1} - 14:30 This one is dedicated to Yayoi Kusama the acclaimed Japanese visual artist who really knows how to make a point….lots of them. The original working title of this piece was Kaleidoscope as I perceived the sounds as shiny tonal objects floating within a reflective space.
Pillow of Cloud - 4:25 I really needed something to clear my mind-palette after ingesting too much political flotsam. Many of you can relate I’m sure.
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Taking this opportunity to express my gratitude to those musicians who reached down and reached back to help me get serious about the music over the last 5 decades. Big respect to Harlan Thomas, Sam Salomone, Don Archer, Bobby Parker, Speck Redd, Frank Tribble, Butchie, John Grguric, Dannie Nicholson, Rod, and, of course GT Clinton. I was fortunate to grow up in Des Moines with a Bebop Dad, A Classical Mom and a bunch of Rock’nRoll, R&B and Jazz-mad young thugs to get in “good musical trouble” with. Enjoy.
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Tech Note: Dartanyan plays a Milburn-built Stratocaster. Since 1985, He has been recording with Macintosh computers and Digital Performer DAW software. He credits Roger Hughes (Audio Art), Tom Tucker (Triad Studios) and Murray Allen (Universal Recording company) 1973-74 Chicago, Ill. with giving him valuable advice on mixing audio.
All songs and stories presented here ©2025 Dartanyan Brown Music (ASCAP)
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To my growing number of online followers, stay alert for the concluding episodes of the 2003 San Francisco Celebration of Jack Kerouac. Stay tuned and subscribe for more podcasts/broadcasts here at RadioDartanyan and My Integrated Life.
Iowa Writers’ Collaborative
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My Integrated Life Begins Here; Episode One
IOWA WRITERS’ COLLABORATIVE
The Roster of Writers
Nicole Baart: This Stays Here, Sioux Center
Ray Young Bear: From Red Earth Drive, Meskwaki Settlement
Laura Belin: Iowa Politics with Laura Belin, Windsor Heights
Tory Brecht: Brecht’s Beat, Quad Cities
Dartanyan Brown, My Integrated Life, Des Moines
Doug Burns: The Iowa Mercury, Carroll
Jane Burns: The Crossover, Des Moines
Dave Busiek: Dave Busiek on Media, Des Moines
Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, Roundup
Steph Copley: It Was Never a Dress, Johnston
Art Cullen: Art Cullen’s Notebook, Storm Lake
Suzanna de Baca: Dispatches from the Heartland, Huxley
Debra Engle: A Whole New World, Madison County
Daniel Finney, Paragraph Stacker, Des Moines
Arnold Garson: Second Thoughts, Okoboji and Sioux Falls
Julie Gammack: Julie Gammack’s Iowa Potluck, Des Moines and Okoboji
Joe Geha: Fern and Joe, Ames
Jody Gifford: Benign Inspiration, West Des Moines
Rob Gray: Rob Gray’s Area, Ankeny
Nik Heftman: The Seven Times, Los Angeles and Iowa
Beth Hoffman: In the Dirt, Lovilia
Iowa Capital Dispatch, an alliance with IWC
Dana James: Black Iowa News, Iowa
Chris Jones, Chris’s Substack, Iowa City
Pat Kinney: View from Cedar Valley, Waterloo
Fern Kupfer: Fern and Joe, Ames
Robert Leonard: Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture, Bussey
Letters from Iowans, Iowa
Darcy Maulsby: Keepin’ It Rural, Calhoun County
Tar Macias: Hola Iowa, Iowa
Alison McGaughey, The Inquisitive Quad Citizen, Quad Cities
Kurt Meyer: Showing Up, St. Ansgar
Vicki Minor, Relatively Minor, Winterset
Wini Moranville: Wini’s Food Stories, Des Moines
Jeff Morrison: Between Two Rivers, Cedar Rapids
Kyle Munson: Kyle Munson’s Main Street, Des Moines
Jane Nguyen: The Asian Iowan, West Des Moines
John Naughton: My Life, in Color, Des Moines
Chuck Offenburger: Iowa Boy Chuck Offenburger, Jefferson and Des Moines
Barry Piatt: Piatt on Politics Behind the Curtain, Washington, D.C.
Dave Price: Dave Price’s Perspective, Des Moines
Steve Semken, The Pulse of a Heartland Publisher, North Liberty
Macey Shofroth: The Midwest Creative, Norwalk
Larry Stone: Listening to the Land, Elkader
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Buggy Land, Kalona
Mary Swander: Mary Swander’s Emerging Voices, Kalona
Cheryl Tevis: Unfinished Business, Boone County
Ed Tibbetts: Along the Mississippi, Davenport
Jason Walsmith, The Racontourist, Earlham
Kali White VanBaale, 988: Mental Healthcare in Iowa, Bondurant
Teresa Zilk: Talking Good, Des Moines
The Iowa Writers Collaborative is also proud to ally with Iowa Capital Dispatch.
