1. Daniel Deacon was born on August 28,1981 and is an American composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland.
27 Facts About Dan Deacon
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Daniel Deacon was born and raised in West Babylon, New York on Long Island.
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Dan Deacon graduated from Babylon High School in 1999 where he was a member of the local ska band Channel 59 alongside Tim Daniels of The Complete Guide to Everything.
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Dan Deacon later attended the Conservatory of Music at State University of New York at Purchase in Purchase, New York where, in addition to performing his solo material, he played in many bands, including tuba for Langhorne Slim and guitar in the improvisational grindcore band Rated R, and had a small mixed chamber ensemble.
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Dan Deacon completed his graduate studies in electro-acoustic and computer music composition.
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Dan Deacon studied under composer and conductor Joel Thome and Dary John Mizelle.
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Dan Deacon's first two releases as a solo artist, Meetle Mice and Silly Hat vs Egale Hat were released on CD-R on Standard Oil Records in 2003 while he was a student at SUNY Purchase.
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Dan Deacon followed those two albums with a set of records made up of sine wave compositions, Green Cobra Is Awesome Vs The Sun and Goose on the Loose.
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In 2017, Dan Deacon released a 10th-anniversary edition of Spiderman of the Rings that included the soundtrack to 2007's Ultimate Reality.
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Dan Deacon produced and co-wrote the album Riddles by Ed Schrader's Music Beat, released March 2,2018 on Carpark Records.
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In 2011, Dan Deacon began to work more outside of the indie and pop music scenes and began working in the contemporary classical scene and film scoring.
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On March 2,2012, Dan Deacon performed with So Percussion at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto Canada.
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On March 20,2012, Dan Deacon premiered a new composition for a chamber orchestra titled "An Opal Toad with Obsidian Eyes".
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Dan Deacon made his Carnegie Hall debut on March 26,2012, as part of the Carnegie Hall's American Mavericks series with So Percussion and Matmos.
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In July 2013, Dan Deacon performed with the Kronos Quartet as part of their "Kronos at 40" series of concerts at Lincoln Center.
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The quartet and Dan Deacon performed the world premiere of his composition "Four Phases of Conflict" on the evening of July 28,2013.
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New York City Ballet resident choreographer Justin Peck and Dan Deacon collaborated on "The Times Are Racing", a ballet piece set to Dan Deacon's four-part "USA I-IV" suite from his album America.
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Dan Deacon collaborated with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall for an evening of performance and curation on January 17,2019.
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Dan Deacon was accompanied by various acts including Nuclear Power Pants.
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Dan Deacon has stated numerous times that this is not true.
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Dan Deacon collaborated with Wham City Comedy, on Live Forever as You Are Now with Alan Resnick, an infomercial parody, created for Adult Swim and "Showbeast" the web series created and directed by Ben O'Brien.
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In September 2010, Dan Deacon collaborated with video artist Jimmy Joe Roche at the Incubate festival in Tilburg, The Netherlands.
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Together with Jimmy Joe Roche and film critic Eric Allen Hatch, Dan Deacon curated and hosted the Gunky's Basement Film Series, a Maryland Film Festival series of films that are favorites of these friends and collaborators, including RoboCop, The Shining, and Something Wild.
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Dan Deacon appears as himself in the 2014 film Song One.
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In November 2018, Dan Deacon released Time Trial, his original soundtrack score to Finlay Pretsell's cycling documentary.
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Dan Deacon contributed original music to the score of Francis Ford Coppola's 2011 horror film Twixt, starring Val Kilmer.
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In 2021, Dan Deacon scored Jessica Kingdon's feature documentary Ascension, which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, winning both Best Documentary Feature and the Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director.