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Biała Lądecka, a right tributary of Nysa Kłodzka in Poland, located in the village of Bielice in Lower Silesia.

A tributary or affluent^[1] is a stream or river that flows into a main stem (or parent) river or a lake.^[2] A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the mainstem river serve to drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater by leading the water out into an ocean or sea.

A confluence, where two or more bodies of water meet together, usually refers to the joining of tributaries.

Reciprocal to a tributary is a distributary, a river or stream that branches off from and flows away from the main stream. Distributaries are most often found in river deltas.

Terminology[link]

The Pfinz, a right tributary of the Rhine, located in Baden-Württemberg.

Walton Creek, a small tributary of the Lochsa River in northeastern Idaho, flowing slightly upstream of its confluence with a larger stream.

'Right tributary' and 'left tributary' (or 'right-bank tributary' and 'left-bank tributary') are terms stating the orientation of the tributary relative to the flow of the mainstem river. These terms are defined from the perspective of looking downstream (in the direction the water current of the main stem is going).

Where tributaries have the same name as the river into which they feed, they are called forks. These are typically designated by compass direction. For example, the American River receives flow from its north, middle, and south forks.

Forks are sometimes designated as right or left. Here, the "handedness" is from the point of view of an observer facing upstream. For instance, Steer Creek has a left tributary which is called Right Fork Steer Creek.

Ordering and enumeration[link]

Tributaries are sometimes listed starting with those nearest to the source of the river and ending with those to those nearest to the mouth of the river. The Strahler Stream Order examines the arrangement of tributaries in a hierarchy of first, second, third, and higher orders, with the first order tributary being typically the least in size. For example, a second order tributary would be the result of two or more first order tributaries combining to form the second order tributary.

Another method is to list tributaries from mouth to source, in the form of a tree structure, stored as a tree data structure.^{[citation needed]}

In Norway, the river Glomma meets its main tributary Vorma.

See also[link]

• Estuary

References[link]

External links[link]

Look up tributary, confluent, or affluent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Cameron Mizell (born on September 28, 1983) is an American record producer and owner of the Chango Studios in Orlando, Florida. Cameron Mizell started recording in 2006.^[1] Mizell was also the lead singer for the band Last Winter in which he appeared on the albums Transmission: Skyline and Under The Silver Of Machines, both of which he produced. During 2011 his new band, She Can't Breathe, released their debut album, When The Way Is Forgotten.

Production Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• [1] Production Credits
• [2] Production Credits
• [3] Chango Studios
• [4] Chango Studios Myspace

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Colman Robert Hardy Daniel Andrews (Colman Andrews) (born February 18, 1945) is an American writer and editor and authority on food and wine. In culinary circles, he is best known for his association with Saveur magazine, which he founded with Dorothy Kalins, Michael Grossman, and Christopher Hirsheimer in 1994 and where he served as editor-in-chief from 2001 until 2006.^[1] Since then, he has been the restaurant columnist for Gourmet.^[2] He is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on Spanish cuisine, particularly that of the Catalonia region.^[3]

Early life[link]

Born in Santa Monica, California. His father, Charles Robert Hardy Douglas Andrews, born in Effingham, Kansas, was a newspaperman, pioneering radio soap opera writer, novelist, and screenwriter.^[4] In a 1948 New Yorker article on the soaps, James Thurber mentioned Andrews and his ability to turn out “a hundred thousand words a week over a period of years, without losing a pound or a hair.” Writing speed and fecundity would eventually become something Bob’s son Colman was known for as well. Andrews’ mother was Irene Colman (née Bressette), an actress of French-Canadian descent born in Nashua, New Hampshire.^[5] She was featured as a chorus girl in Gold Diggers of 1937 alongside Lucille Ball, and also appeared in Anthony Adverse with Fredric March and Tale of Two Cities with Ronald Colman (from whom she took her stage name, the second half of which she later passed on to her son). Andrews and his sister, Ann Merry Victoria Andrews (two years his junior), grew up on an estate in the West Los Angeles neighborhood of Holmby Hills, next door to Vincent Price. The family moved to Ojai, north of Los Angeles, in 1959, and Andrews attended Villanova Preparatory School in the same town. Even in those days, Andrews loved food; he relished dinners at the innovative Ranch House restaurant nearby and, living in a house rented from Loretta Young, he collected bags full of Ojai’s famed Valencia oranges from the small orchard out front and squeezed fresh juice from them. He also had his first job in journalism, writing community items for The Ojai Valley News for 35 cents a published column inch.

Early career[link]

After high school, Andrews went on to Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles as an English major. Kicked out of Loyola after one year for ignoring his studies in favor of the campus radio station, Andrews spent the next year-and-a-half working and traveling, at one point following a girlfriend to Atlanta and then Boston. Returning to Los Angeles, he enrolled at Los Angeles City College in 1965, studying philosophy, art history and Arabic. He took a job in the bookshop at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art the same year, and got to know many of the top Southern California artists of the time. In 1968, after a year-and-a-half at Los Angeles City College and a semester at California State University, Andrews was accepted at the University of California at Los Angeles. There he continued his philosophy training and also began studying European and Middle European history; he graduated in 1969 with degrees in history and philosophy, and his knowledge of both would eventually become hallmarks of his food writing.

It was during his college years that Andrews began paying attention to food in a serious way. His early inspiration was Holiday magazine’s annual restaurant awards, which were founded in 1952 and presided over by Silas Spitzer. Spitzer based the awards on reports from a squad of what he termed “anonymous scouts” around the country (one of whom was James Villas, who would become the food editor of Town & Country magazine for many years). At 25, aware of the fact that as a result of his privileged upbringing he had experienced “more restaurant meals…than many of my contemporaries would eat in a lifetime,” Andrews wrote to Spitzer in hopes of joining his team. Spitzer hired him to write about Dan Tana’s in West Hollywood, which was one of Andrews’ favorite places. Before the piece could run, the magazine was sold and the review was never published. It succeeded, however, in igniting a singular enthusiasm in its author.

Andrews’ first restaurant reviewing job was for The Staff, an offshoot of the LA Free Press. For the column, Andrews created a character called “Mr. Food” who had a distinctly Victorian voice and invoked a lot of food-related puns and homonyms.^{[citation needed]} In early 1972, Andrews, a serious music lover and amateur singer and songwriter in addition to his interest in gastronomy, was hired by the publicity department of Atlantic Records; he penned press releases for such albums as Bette Midler’s and Jackson Browne’s debuts. Still writing restaurant reviews on the side, Andrews got his first expense account—and used it to visit LA’s newest restaurants. He began to seriously study wine and was a fan in particular of the wine writer Roy Brady, who espoused the notion that a wine should be judged not by its reputation or price but instead by what it smells and tastes like. Brady became his mentor in wine matters, and Andrews himself is known for his democratic approach to the seemingly fusty discipline.^[6]

Magazine Life[link]

Andrews left Atlantic before a year had passed to accept his first leadership role on the staff of a consumer magazine. He became the editor of Coast, a Los Angeles-based lifestyle magazine; he held the position until 1975. Meanwhile, Andrews continued his association with the music industry reviewing records for Creem, where Lester Bangs was his editor, and covering live music in the LA area for The Hollywood Reporter and other publications. He also made radio commercials and wrote artists’ bios for several record companies and wrote liner notes for numerous albums, receiving a Grammy nomination in 1972 for notes on a special edition of Miles Davis reissues. In 1975, Lois Dwan, restaurant reviewer for The Los Angeles Times, who had read his Mr. Food pieces, asked Andrews to substitute for her while she went on vacation.^[7] This began his long association with the newspaper, in the course of which, though he was never officially on staff, he was alternately a restaurant reviewer and columnist, book reviewer and travel writer, and the editor of the paper’s travel magazine, Traveling in Style. In 1978, Andrews was hired by Los Angeles magazine to write a monthly wine column. Once again, he took a pseudonym: Van Delanay (a pun on the phrase vin de l’année, or wine of the year). He was hired that same year as an associate editor at New West magazine, a bi-weekly California publication started by Clay Felker as a parallel to his seminal New York magazine. He was promoted a year later to senior editor. During this time he met Ruth Reichl, then the restaurant columnist for the Northern California edition of New West, who would go on to become the restaurant critic of the New York Times from 1993 to 1999, and, later, the editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine. For a period the two were lovers, their relationship chronicled in Reichl’s memoir Comfort Me with Apples (Random House, 2002).^[8]

Andrews left New West in 1980 and began writing for Apartment Life, an urbane lifestyle magazine helmed by Dorothy Kalins. A year later that magazine was transformed into Metropolitan Home. Over the course of that magazine’s first decade, Andrews wrote dozens of articles and columns, the majority of which were about food and wine (although he also occasionally wrote about art and design, including interviews with David Hockney, Terry Allen, and Charles Moore).^[9] During this time Andrews wrote about restaurants all over the world; he was the first American reporter to introduce readers to the great French chef Guy Savoy.^[10] Perhaps most significantly, Andrews got a contract to write a book on Catalan cuisine based on an article he’d written for Met Home. Throughout the eighties he spent a great deal of time traveling to Barcelona and vicinity. The resulting book, Catalan Cuisine, published in 1988 and still in print, has become the standard reference book for restaurant kitchens in that region, and is revered by the top local chefs, including the world-renowned Ferran Adria.^[11]

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After finishing his Catalan book, Andrews worked as a freelancer, writing articles for the Los Angeles Times and for Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, and many other publications. In 1992, Andrews published his second book, Everything on the Table: Plain Talk About Food and Wine, a collection of new and revised short pieces, and shortly thereafter he began work on a book about the cuisines of Genoa and Nice, Flavors of the Riviera: Discovering Real Mediterranean Cuisine, published in 1996. Meanwhile, in 1994, Andrews had become a founder of Saveur magazine, and in late 1995, he moved from Los Angeles to New York City.^[12] The magazine was a watershed publication, the first of its kind to delve beyond recipes and formulas and tell the stories of the people and cultures behind the food.^[13] During his tenure, Andrews won six James Beard Journalism Awards, and in 2000, Saveur became the first food magazine to win the American Society of Magazine Editors’ award for General Excellence. The following year, after the magazine changed ownership, Kalins left to work for Newsweek and Andrews took over as editor-in-chief. He left Saveur in 2006, becoming the restaurant columnist for Gourmet and undertaking new book projects—the first of which, The Country Cooking of Ireland,^[14] will be published in 2009^{[dated info]} by Chronicle Books.

Despite his association with Barcelona, the two cities that most shaped Andrews’ passion for food, he has said, were Paris and Rome. He first visited the former in 1965, during which he was guided by an old friend of his father’s, Claude Caspar-Jordan, the administrative director of Associated Press France. Meals with Caspar-Jordan forever changed Andrews, and the two would dine together in Paris at least once a year for 28 years more until the Frenchman’s death; Andrews wrote a moving account of their times together called Paris Authentique that appeared in the twelfth issue of Saveur (May/June 1996).^[15] On repeated trips to Rome throughout the 1970s and early ‘80s to visit an American friend who had moved to there, Andrews made a serious study of Italian food, paying particular attention to the Romans’ style and pace of eating, and it left an indelible impression. “Rome made me,” he has written.^[16]

Employment[link]

2007–present: GOURMET, restaurant columnist

1994–2007: SAVEUR (co-founder) 2001-2007: Editor-in-Chief 1996-2001: Editor 1994-1996: Executive Editor

1980–1993: Freelance editing and writing

1979: Senior Editor, NEW WEST (Los Angeles)

1978: Associate Editor, NEW WEST (Los Angeles)

1975–1978: Freelance writing and editing

1972–1975: Editor-in-Chief, COAST (Los Angeles)

1966–1972: Freelance writing and editing

Freelance Editing[link]

1992—1994: Editor, Traveling in Style, the Los Angeles Times travel magazine (thrice yearly); editor, numerous Los Angeles Times travel section special editions

1976: Editor, “The Hollywood Reporter Annual”

1972–1977: Editorial consulting (clients included Filmex [the Los Angeles International Film Exposition], the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Journal, and Picture Magazine)

Freelance Writing[link]

Author of an estimated 2,500 freelance articles, essays, and reviews about food, wine, travel, music, art, architecture, design, the entertainment industry, social issues, etc., between 1966 and the present. Publications include Bon Appétit, Chicago Sun-Times, Christian Science Monitor, Creem, Food & Wine, the Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Free Press, Los Angeles Magazine (wine columnist, 1978–1988), the Los Angeles Times (variously restaurant news columnist, Friday restaurant reviewer, travel writer, and Sunday magazine contributor, 1972–1992), the Mail on Sunday (UK), Metropolitan Home (principal food writer and editor, 1982–1990), Musica Jazz (Italy), Phonograph Record Magazine, the Radio Times (UK), the Sunday Telegraph Magazine (UK), and Travel & Leisure.

Books[link]

Flavors of the Riviera: Discovering Real Mediterranean Cooking, Bantam Books, 1996

Everything on the Table: Plain Talk About Food and Wine, Bantam Books, 1992

Catalan Cuisine: Europe’s Last Great Culinary Secret, Atheneum, 1988

Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian (co-author and co-editor), Chronicle Books, 2001

Saveur Cooks Authentic French (co-author and co-editor), Chronicle Books, 1999

Saveur Cooks Authentic American (co-author and co-editor), Chronicle Books, 1998

Malaparte: A House Like Me (contributor), Clarkson N. Potter, 1999^[17]

Setting the American Table: Essays for the New Culture of Food and Wine (contributor), Copia/The American Center for Wine Food & the Arts, 2001

Awards and honors[link]

2010 James Beard Foundation Award: Best International Cookbook (and) Cookbook of the Year. The Country Cooking of Ireland (Chronicle Books, 2009).

2007 James Beard Foundation Award: Best Magazine Feature Writing with Recipes. Ireland: Farm to Fork: Special Issue, Saveur, Issue 91, March 2006.^[18]

2004 James Beard Foundation Award: Best Magazine Writing on Wine and Spirits. Article: Treasures of the Land, Saveur, Issue 71, December 2003.^[19]

2000 James Beard Foundation Award: Best Magazine Series. Article: Venice special series, Saveur, Issue 38, November 1999.^[20]

1999 James Beard Foundation Awards: Best Magazine Feature Writing with Recipes and Best American Cookbook (for Saveur Cooks Authentic American, with co-author Dorothy Kalins).^[21] Burgundy: Special Issue; Saveur, Issue 30, November 1998.^[22]

1998 James Beard Foundation M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. Article: "[1]. Saveur, Issue 18, April 1997.

1996 International Association of Cooking Professionals Bert Greene Award for magazine food journalism.^[15]

1985 Named to Who’s Who of Cooking in America (one of the first 50 figures to win this honor)

1976 Grammy nomination, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, for Best Liner Notes

Personal life[link]

Marriages: Leslie Ward, 1979–1989; Paula Fritz, 1989–2002; Erin Walker, 2006–present

Children: Madeleine Cartwright Andrews (born April 17, 1990); Isabelle Scott Andrews (born April 5, 1993)

Interesting facts[link]

Andrews’ godmother was Kathryn Brown, wife of actor and comedian Joe E. Brown (Show Boat, Some Like It Hot, etc.) While living in Atlanta, Andrews wrote some of his first (unsold) articles on a portable typewriter lent to him by Ralph McGill, the legendary editor of the Atlanta Constitution, to whom a friend of Andrews’ father had introduced him. From 2000 to 2006, Andrews performed several times a year as a guest vocalist with the Texas-based chefs’ band The Barbwires.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Oxford Symposium on Food, 2005
• Colman Andrews speech at Good Food Ireland showcase event
• Colman Andrews on Gourmet.com
• http://www.thefoodsection.com/appetizers/2006/08/colman_andrews_.html
• http://gawker.com/news/gourmet/andrews-exits-saveur-for-the-comfort-of-reichls-apples-191555.php
• http://www.amazon.com/Catalan-Cuisine-Europes-Culinary-Secret/dp/1558321543
• http://articles.latimes.com/writers/colman-andrews
• http://www.wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0605b.mp3/view
• http://www.restaurantguysradio.com/sle/rg/content/shows/index.asp?show_id=180
• http://www.jamesbeard.org/index.php?q=search/node/colman+andrews
• http://www.tienda.com/table/products/bk-08.html
• http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DA1638F93BA35754C0A966958260
• http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/440333

Justin Vernon
Vernon performing with Bon Iver in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Background information
Birth name	Justin DeYarmond Edison Vernon
Born	(1981-04-30) April 30, 1981 (age 31) Eau Claire, Wisconsin, U.S.[1]
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Associated acts	Bon Iver DeYarmond Edison All Tiny Creatures The Shouting Matches Mount Vernon Megafaun Volcano Choir Gayngs Kanye West The Throne The Rosebuds St. Vincent Kathleen Edwards James Blake

Justin DeYarmond Edison Vernon (born April 30, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and the frontman for Bon Iver.^[2][3][4]

Early life[link]

Vernon attended Memorial High School in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, graduating in 1999. He then attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. Vernon majored in Religious Studies and minored in Women's Studies. In an interview with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report, he said that he was not ready to study music.^[5]

Career[link]

While in high school and college, Vernon founded the bands Mount Vernon and DeYarmond Edison – both indie-rock bands which originated from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where he still resides.^[6][7] DeYarmond Edison's core consisted of Vernon, Brad and Phil Cook, and Joe Westerlund. The band saw varying line-up changes during its five years of existence.

After a long period of success in the Eau Claire music scene, the four band mates decided to leave their longtime home and move to Raleigh, North Carolina to try their musical hand in a new place. The band released two records themselves, the first self-titled and the second titled Silent Signs^[8] and an EP of unreleased material is available on their Myspace page.^[9] After nearly a year in Raleigh, Vernon left for Wisconsin after a breakup with the band and a girlfriend. The remaining members of DeYarmond Edison went on to form a new band called Megafaun and remain good friends with Vernon.^[10]

Vernon came to international prominence with For Emma, Forever Ago, his first album as Bon Iver.

Vernon is a part of other musical groups, including Volcano Choir, which consists of Vernon and the members of the band Collections of Colonies of Bees. In 2009 Unmap was released. The collaborative group Gayngs, which includes multiple other established artists, including Megafaun, The Rosebuds and P.O.S., released Relayted in 2010.^[11] Vernon contributed to seven songs on Anaïs Mitchell's 2010 album Hadestown, based on the Greek legend Orpheus and Eurydice. He is half of The Shouting Matches, a blues-garage rock duo, along with Laarks and Peter Wolf Crier drummer Brian Moen. They have recorded but not yet released a 5-track EP, Mouthoil.^[12]

Vernon agreed to let Kanye West use samples from his song "Woods" on his 2009 EP Blood Bank for West's 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and has contributed vocals to several songs in collaboration with West since.^[13] In 2009, Vernon collaborated with Aaron Dessner on the song "Big Red Machine" for the AIDS benefit album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization.

He has produced albums for other artists, including Land of Talk's 2008 album Some Are Lakes^[14] and Kathleen Edwards' 2012 album Voyageur.^[15]

Bon Iver won Best New Artist and Best Alternative Album at the 2012 Grammys.^[16]

Personal life[link]

Since 2011, Vernon has been in a relationship with Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards.^[17]

Discography[link]

with Gayngs[link]

• 2010 Relayted

with Bon Iver[link]

• 2008 For Emma, Forever Ago
• 2009 Blood Bank (EP)
• 2011 Bon Iver

with Volcano Choir[link]

• 2009 Unmap

with Eau Claire Memorial Jazz I Ensemble[link]

• 2009 A Decade With Duke

with The Shouting Matches[link]

• 2008 Mouthoil (Unreleased 5-track EP)

as Justin Vernon[link]

• 2005 Self Record
• 2006 Hazeltons

with DeYarmond Edison[link]

• 2004 DeYarmond Edison
• 2005 Silent Signs
• 2006 The Bickett Residency
• 2006 Unreleased EP

as JD Vernon[link]

• 2001 Feels Like Home

with Mount Vernon[link]

• 1998 We Can Look Up
• 2000 All of Us Free

References[link]

1. ^ "Justin Vernon". AskMen.com. December 13, 2008. http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/entertainment/justin-vernon.html. 
2. ^ Grammy Winners 2011
3. ^ Judki, Maura (February 13, 2012). "Bon Iver’s Best New Artist win confuses Grammy viewers". Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/bon-iver-best-new-artist-win-confuses-grammy-viewers/2012/02/12/gIQAkunz9Q_blog.html?tid=pm_entertainment_pop. Retrieved February 13, 2012. 
4. ^ Caramanica, Jon (June 3, 2011). "Who, What and Where is Bon Iver?". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/magazine/who-what-and-where-is-bon-iver.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved February 13, 2012. 
5. ^ Colbert, Stephen (June 20, 2011). "Interview of Justin Vernon". Colbert Report. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/390018/june-20-2011/justin-vernon. Retrieved February 14, 2011. 
6. ^ Foley, Ryan (September 11, 2007). "Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago". Stylus Magazine. http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/bon-iver/for-emma-forever-ago.htm. 
7. ^ Deusner, Stephen (October 4, 2007). "Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago". Pitchfork Media. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/45817-for-emma-forever-ago. 
8. ^ Indy Week Article on DeYarmond Edison
9. ^ DeYarmond Edison on MySpace
10. ^ Allen, Dustin (February 11, 2008). "Out of the Bungalow: An Interview With Bon Iver". Treblezine.com. http://www.treblezine.com/features/143.html. Retrieved 2011-08-29. 
11. ^ http://jagjaguwar.com/blog/2010/02/jagjaguwar-introduces-gayngs-new-album-relayted-coming-in-may/
12. ^ http://fortifiedwithoptimism.blogspot.com/2009/12/shouting-matches.html
13. ^ http://pitchfork.com/news/39752-justin-vernon-talks-kanye-collaboration-gayngs/
14. ^ http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/land-talk-some-are-lakes/
15. ^ "Kathleen Edwards Unveils 'Voyageur'". Exclaim!, October 11, 2011.
16. ^ Wappler, Margaret (February 12, 2012). "Grammys 2012: Bon Iver wins for best new artist". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/02/grammy-awards-2012-new-artist.html. Retrieved February 13, 2012. 
17. ^ http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/justin-vernon-the-good-boyfriend/

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Justin Vernon

• Official Bon Iver website
• Justin Vernon scores two Charlie Chaplin shorts with Chris Rosneau of Volcano Choir
• Official Volcano Choir website

Kyle Bobby Dunn
Background information
Birth name	Kyle Robert Dunn
Origin	Canada
Genres	Drone Ambient Minimalist music Contemporary classical
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Electric guitar, Piano, Strings, Processors, Powerbook G4.
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Sedimental, Moodgadget, Low Point.

Kyle Bobby Dunn (born February 27, 1986 in Ontario) is a composer, arranger, and live performer of modern and neo-classical based drone music. He has performed in live and exclusive outdoor settings, including Banff National Park, since 2000 and has released music on various international recording labels.^[1][2][3]

His work has been described as "compositions that are patience incarnate" ^[4] and "encourage an emotional response even as its seemingly infinite, creeping swirl and hum threatens to numb. A difficult feat." ^[5]

The austere, tempered tonal shifts featured in many of his compositions subtly echo the work of minimalist forerunners like Morton Feldman and LaMonte Young. At the same time Dunn occasionally intersperses quaint, almost chamberal touches which evoke more traditionally classical sources.^[6]

Biography[link]

First realized in Calgary, Alberta, Dunn started composing and arranging his music on piano and cassette tapes (audio and video) in the late 1990s. He began seriously performing and recording under the name Kyle Bobby Dunn in 2002 with the first self released album, Music for Medication.

In interviews he has often mentioned large admiration for classical and soundtrack composers including Arvo Pärt, Valentin Silvestrov, John Williams, Ennio Morricone and Jerry Fielding,^[7] yet his own music often exhibits a more quiet, minimalist, and droning nature that is often compared to ambient contemporary musicians William Basinski, Brian Eno and Stars of the Lid.

Recent works[link]

Releasing what he has referred to as his 'first proper full length' album, Fragments & Compositions of Kyle Bobby Dunn, on Boston's Sedimental label in 2008. The album covered several years of his earliest compositional works, mainly for strings and piano.

In early 2010, a long form album that filled a double compact disc set containing five years worth of his music, A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn, arrived on the UK based label Low Point, and was praised in various music journalism and considered a 'deeply affecting' work by The New York Times and 'his most definitive statement so far,' by Pitchforkmedia.

He released Ways of Meaning in 2011 on Buffalo, New York imprint, Desire Path Recordings, to unanimously positive reception. The Huffington Post's Daniel Kushner wrote, "Dunn presents the listener with sounds that seemingly, have no beginning, nor any end. There are not so much melodies, in the conventional sense -- but rather an economical assemblage of tones, which linger in the air like the quivering brush strokes in an Impressionist still life."^[8]

Discography[link]

References[link]

1. ^ New York Times, Steve Smith
2. ^ Allmusic, Ned Raggett.All Music review
3. ^ Pitchfork.Pitchfork Review
4. ^ Pitchfork Review on Fervency (2009)Pitchfork Review: "Fervency"
5. ^ Just Press Play Review on Kyle Bobby Dunn (2010)JustPressPlay Review: "A Young Person's Guide"
6. ^ Mark Lesseraux, DOA Review of Young Person's Guide DOA Review by Mark Lesseraux
7. ^ Future Sequence Interview with Kyle Bobby Dunn
8. ^ Huffington Post Review

External links[link]