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Brian Dewan was born on 14 June, 1963 in United States, is a Brian Dewan is multi-media artist. Discover Brian Dewan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Occupation Musician, composer, vocalist, instrument builder, illustrator, cartoonist
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 14 June, 1963
Birthday 14 June
Birthplace N/A
Nationality United States

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1963

Brian Dewan (born 14 June 1963) is an American multi-media artist, who produces music, audio-visual performances, decorative painting, furniture, poetry, filmstrips, illustrations, and musical instruments.

He has released three albums of songs and performed extensively in clubs and concert halls as a solo artist and as a member of various ensembles.

He lives in Catskill, New York.

Brian is the brother of artist Ted Dewan and the cousin of musical instrument builder/musician Leon Dewan.

Dewan has a cross-genre approach to music, although he is predominantly known for his folk-tinged vocal stylings and instrumental electronic music, which on a performance level are generally mutually exclusive.

1993

These genres permeate his first two full-length albums, Brian Dewan Tells the Story (1993, Bar None Records) and The Operating Theatre (1998, Instinct Records).

His songs often contemplate the nature of submission to authority, often in a storytelling manner.

His lyrics are by turns humorous, philosophical, and contemplative.

His historical song repertoire often betrays a post-modern irony in the re-telling.

In live performance, Dewan accompanies his singing with a home-built electric zither, outfitted with eight humbucker pickups and 88 strings, sometimes piped through a leslie cabinet or guitar effects pedals.

He also plays a variety of other instruments, including autoharp, koto, organ, and accordion.

His electronic music, either solo or in collaboration with his cousin, Leon Dewan, tends to be more sprawling and free-form, often evoking the dissonance of early analog electronic music.

Dewan has worked with They Might Be Giants, Sesame Street, Flaming Fire, Jed Davis, The Music Tapes, Loser's Lounge, The Shondes and The Musical Stones of Skiddaw.

2002

He is a member of the Raymond Scott Orchestrette, a group dedicated to reinterpreting Scott's compositions, and appeared on their 2002 album Pushbutton Parfait.

He also composes and performs with the Patient Island Singers, a project loosely centered around the topic of Roosevelt Island.

He was an original member of the Blue Man Group Tubes house band, for whom he composed musical scores.

He later sued the group for authorship claims, and eventually prevailed in court.

2003

In 2003, Dewan created an installation at the Pierogi 2000 Gallery in Brooklyn which transformed the appearance of the gallery into that of an American classroom from an indeterminate bygone era, perhaps from the 1940s.

He presented his filmstrips regularly during the course of the month-long exhibition, to audience members seated in old schooldesks.

Dewan has created a series of what he terms "shrines", constructed of wood and other materials, such as light bulbs, clocks, photographs and bottles.

Perhaps the best known shrine is the one appearing on the cover of They Might Be Giants' album Lincoln.

The shrines range from about one to six feet tall and often evoke New England church architecture with their lean geometrical spires.

While the word "shrine" might connote a site created for devotion to a spiritual entity, Dewan's shrines seem to exist not as a conduit for worship, but as playful aesthetic objects.

Dewan created a number of shrines for New Year's Eve parties and performances, and those shrines often have some sort of illumination which could be turned on at midnight.

At least one had a drink-dispenser built into it.

The cabinetry he built for his recent series of electronic instruments, created in collaboration with his cousin, Leon Dewan, often continue some of the visual ideas behind the shrines.

His New Year's Eve shrine ritual involves completing the shrine only moments before midnight.

2007

Dewan's 2007 album Words Of Wisdom (Eschatone Records) was the first in a series of folk archival recordings called the Humanitarium Series.

Each record in the series will collect a set of song artifacts by theme: temperance, school songs, hymns, folksongs ancient and modern, institutional music, advertisement and persuasion, ditties, jingles, and popular music.

He has also performed a song for the original soundtrack CD for the "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?"

television series, though this track was commissioned for the CD and never used in any other context.

Brian Dewan's series of I Can See filmstrips use the technology of the educational filmstrips from the mid-twentieth century as a point of departure for imaginative personal invention.

Each panel features one of Dewan's fanciful drawings, usually skillfully rendered in magic marker or watercolor.

The images are accompanied by elaborate soundtracks in which Dewan is heard, adopting a deadpan narrator's voice, and playing various musical instruments to create a different miniature soundtrack for each panel of the filmstrip.

When it is time for the projectionist to advance the strip to the next panel, Dewan's voice is typically heard singing "boop" in close imitation of the noise traditionally used for this purpose.

The themes of the strips often seem as though they could have been taken from actual educational strips - Grimm's Fairy Tales, Civic Pride, a short history of the Organ, Biblical stories have all served as conceits for the filmstrips.

The strips tend to take many free-associative liberties and are by turns satirical and surreal, often whimsical and sometimes touching on serious themes.

"Before the White Man Came" seems as though it might be about colonialism or racism, but the "White Man" of the filmstrip starts to seem more likely to be a folkloric evil spirit, with a charged and ambiguous relationship to racial stereotypes.

2019

His vocal repertoire references folk music, hymns, popular songs from bygone eras (especially topical songs from the 19th and early 20th centuries), and rock music.

He also composes original songs reflecting these influences.