This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Peter Dasent matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Peter Dasent.
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Who & Where
- Name: Peter Dasent
- City/Place: Sydney
- Country: Australia
Life & Work
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Bio:
PETER DASENT is a composer, songwriter, pianist and music arranger/director.
He has composed music for film and television (including three early Peter Jackson films), led his own ensemble The Umbrellas for 30 years, written songs for kids (Justine Clarke’s platinum-selling children’s albums) and has played piano for the long-running ABC-TV children’s show Play School since 2000.
Peter was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1954 and learned piano from age 8, discovering the Beatles and other classic sixties pop groups and the music of his father’s collection of jazz 78’s along the way.
1970s
He studied music briefly at Victoria University of Wellington and was a founder member of the bands Spats (1977-79) and The Crocodiles (1980). Two other members of these bands, Tony Backhouse and Fane Flaws, were to become long-time friends and musical collaborators, along with lyricist Arthur Baysting.
1980s
In 1981 Peter moved to Sydney, where he studied for the Associate Diploma in Jazz Studies at the NSW Conservatorium of Music . Encouraged by then course director Don Burrows, Peter formed The Umbrellas in 1985. The band released three albums between 1986 and 1991, and from 1992-2002 toured for the Musica Viva In Schools program, performing throughout NSW and on tours to Fiji and Singapore.
Peter began his screen composition career in 1989 with Peter Jackson’s second film, the Muppets send-up splatter epic Meet The Feebles. He subsequently scored two more Peter Jackson films, Braindead (aka Dead Alive outside Australasia) and the Oscar-nominated Heavenly Creatures.
1990s
During the 90s Peter was in demand as a composer for television, concentrating mainly on documentaries and children’s drama.
2000 to present
His involvement in children’s music began in 2000 with The Underwatermelon Man, a book of absurd poems by Fane Flaws and Arthur Baysting, illustrated by Fane, and set to music by Fane and Peter for an accompanying CD. Singers included Neil and Tim Finn, Renee Geyer, Don McGlashan, Bic Runga, Dave Dobbyn and Jenny Morris.
In 2000 Peter was asked to fill in as pianist on ABC-TV’s PlaySchool, and he has been the regular PlaySchool pianist ever since, writing numerous original songs and producing 3 CDs. In 2005 he produced the first of PlaySchool presenter Justine Clarke’s 3 best selling CDs “I Like To Sing”, and a fourth album, Pyjama Jam, was released in October 2015. Nearly all the songs on these albums were written by Peter with Arthur Baysting.
In 2003 Peter was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to research his long-time interest in the music Italian composer Nino Rota wrote for the films of Federico Fellini. He travelled to the US to meet the composer's daughter and to Italy where he was given access to the Rota archive at the Fondazione Cini in Venice.
He lectures regularly on Rota's Fellini scores at AFTRS in Sydney.
In 2013 Peter recorded a CD of original music for solo piano at the legendary Abbey Road Studio in London. “Songs For Solo Piano” was released on November 6 2015.
In 2015 The Umbrellas released their first album of original music in 20 years "Lounge Suite Tango", and in 2016 "Bravo Nino Rota" was re-released with a new cover and booklet.
In 2017 Blessed Relief, Peter's long-awaited collaboration with Tony Backhouse released their first album "Design For Living".
In 2018 Peter is touring Europe for the first time, playing solo piano concerts in Italy and Germany.
Contact Information
- Email: peterdasent@mac.com
- Contact by Webpage: http://www.peterdasent.com/contact/
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: peterdasent
- ▶ Instagram: peterdasent
- ▶ Website: http://www.peterdasent.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/peterdasent
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCBffv4sOU-qzR87AKeWJybw
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/3WDhbU9Z3F1liLeYqBS0HJ
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
Armchair Records is the label set up by Peter Dasent to release his own music.
The latest release, in August 2016, is actually a re-release of "Bravo Nino Rota" (ARM02), the CD recorded in 2001 of Peter's arrangements of Italian composer Nino Rota's scores for the films of Fererico Felini. The album includes such classics as La Strada, La Dolce Vita and Amarcord. The new 2016 version of the album includes a revised booklet with beautiful artwork from Fane Flaws.
The first Armchair Records release, in May 2015, was "Lounge Suite Tango" (ARM01) by The Umbrellas. Then Peter's solo piano album, recorded at Abbey Road, "Songs for Solo Piano" (ARM03) was released on November 6, 2015. Also on that date the first three Umbrellas albums, "The Umbrellas" (ARM04), "Age of ELegance", (ARM05), and "Soundtrack to the Passing Parade" (ARM06) were re-released - all 3 in digital form and "The Umbrellas" and "Soundtrack to the Passing Parade" on CD.
You can purchase any of these at your local red store (yes, they do exist and should be able to order it for you - if not please let me know) or head to HERE, Watefront Records, and find it on there. They are also available for digital download and previewing on iTunes.
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
