It was great to be a small part of what must have been a large team, thanks so much for the opportunity. I did the sound design and composition at the opening sequence with the heartbeat and music up until 1:12 seconds. I’m credited at 11:55, so cool to be collaborating, I look forward to doing more.

More about the movie it’s in the trailer section: http://www.multifariousmovie.com/

Here’s a new track in progress inspired by the amazing poetry and voice of Destiny White.  We met while I was DJing for some performances at the incredible Anamaya resort in Montezuma, Costa Rica in December, 2010.  This is a first installment of some upcoming tracks and collaboration.

Pura vida de Montezuma, Costa Rica.

NIO-Origins New Album Released on iTunes

NIO (aka nothing is original) has been doing public multimedia art since the mid-90s and to celebrate his binary birthday released his new album Origins on 11.10.10 or if you live in Europe and other parts of the world 10.11.10.  This new release has many dance inspired tunes. Check the link today for hearing previews and or buying the new release.

Here’s the feedback from my first online MP3 purchaser:

Travis-

I love your cd!  Its grown on me each time I listen to it – great vibes – what genre do you call it?  Who are some of your fav musicians and styles?

Peace

James

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhornne Clemens, 1835-1910)

This is a dubstep tutorial that I found on DJTech Tools, a very useful site for DubStep tutorial and while writing this, I just found the following video:

Here’s a pic or two of the invitation and from the event!

Flier of NIO Spinning Music in Venice California

Travis Winn DJing at Pulse & Light, Abbot Kinney Art Walk, Venice, California

Band List with DJ NIO Los Angeles, CA

Elisabetta Rogiani New York Fashion Show 2008 by NIO on Mixcloud

This is a mix I did that’s pretty minimal I did for Elisabeta Rogiani’s fashion show in New York in 2008.

Travis Winn and Gael DJing in Brussels

Today was a rare day. I made music with an actual human being in Brussels, Belgium. It’d been a while. Last time was, gosh, it’s pathetic, but I really think it was in June with a rapper from Turrialba named Danny. Well, this is not really true, my six month old daughter plays with me sometimes, but when you are immobile and have know choice where you are it’s not counting completely.

The technology was starting to get in the way. It has been snowing in Belgium this past week, as it has been heavily reported. As a result he had all of his gear sitting still at a bar from his gig the previous Friday evening. Luckily I had experience of not having enough gear so I had brought my Firebox Presonus Firewire Card, my 1/8″ jack to 1/4″ stereo splitter (ended up being key to the collaboration) a microphone and many other cables, my 3 korg nano controllers for sliding, piano & beats, and my Kore 2 Controller.

Gael, aka, Hand Job Noizetalgik, whose myspace page is here usually plays with all analogue devices but we routed in Ableton Live his computer into my Live rig and I added a send to his in, took a little while to figure it out because I usually use my MOTU Ultralite in the studio and only DJ with my Firebox, and don’t usually use anything but my

Will upload (well, link, just discovered a 10mb upload limitation in the ini.php or was it php.ini file, seems to be site-wide, tried to work around by uploading the 60mb file into the same directory of the woman who likes mayonnaise on her burger and WordPress doesn’t seem to recognize it. I love technology!