Jordan Dykstra

Jordan Isaiah Whitney Dykstra
Born	January 26, 1985
Origin	Sioux City, Iowa, United States
Genres	experimental, ambient, drone
Occupation(s)	composer
Instruments	viola
Labels	Marriage Records, Editions Verde, Shatter Your Leaves, Modern Documents
Associated acts	Beau Breather, Caspar Sonnet, Tom Blood and Jordan Dykstra, DASH!, Dirty Projectors, The Righteous and Harmonious Fists, Rob Walmart
Website	http://www.jordandykstra.com
Notable instruments
viola, percussion

Jordan Dykstra (born January 26, 1985) is an American composer and violist from Sioux City, Iowa, United States.^[1]

Dykstra studied composition at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California., Portland State University in Portland, Oregon., the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California, and Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. He studied composition at CalArts with Michael Pisaro and Wolfgang von Schweinitz, and has met privately with Chiyoko Szlavnics, Daníel Bjarnason, and Alvin Lucier. He has worked as a composer on film music for Gus Van Sant and as a session violist and string director for Dirty Projectors. Dykstra has performed on solo viola at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, and at the Syros Institute in Ano Syros, Greece.

In 2014, Dykstra received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission to apprentice with composer Daníel Bjarnason in Reykjavík, Iceland.^[2]

While in Val Verde, CA in 2015, Jordan Dykstra founded Editions Verde, a small-run publisher of art and musical objects.

Discography

as Jordan Dykstra

• A Quiet Night - film score (April, 2011) for "A Quiet Night"^{[3][lower-alpha 1]}
• Pianodrones - digital EP card in 3 movements (December, 2012)^[5]
• Sundries - ongoing digital album (2013–present)^[6]
• Phonography - digital album of 20 field recordings (March 2014)^[7]
• Audition^[8] - LP (Marriage Records / Shatter Your Leaves / Modern Documents, August 2014)^[9]
• Like a Sun That Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth - digital LP, composed for Allie Hankins' solo dance show at Conduit Dance Studio in Portland, Ore. from October 24-26, 2014 (January 2015)^[10]
• Three Horns - digital EP for air-horn and sine-tones in 3 movements (May 2015)^[11]
• Elegant Music - digital EP for viola, koto, noh-kan, ryūteki, and percussion (June 2015)^[12]
• Stressings - CD (Editions Verde, April 2016)^{[13][14][15][16]}
• Chimes Nine Times - digital EP for viola, electric guitar, and sine-tones (July 2016)^[17][18]

as DASH!

• TAKES SWIFT STRIDES - digital download card (Marriage Records, August 2009)^[19]
• TSS REMIXES - digital download card (Self released, March 2013)^[20]

with Beau Breather

• College Hotel - CD (Editions Verde, August 2016)^[21][22]

with Tom Blood and Jordan Dykstra

• Seems Like It Means Something Else^[23] from EXP3 (March 2016)^[24]
• Preludes (November 2014)*
• Greatest Hits Live: Volume One (May 2012)*
• A June Afternoon (June 2011)*
• The Act (June 2011)*

*self-released^[25]

with The Righteous and Harmonious Fists

• Fangs, But No Fanks - Split 7" EP with White Fang (Marriage Records, 2008)^[26]

Credits

• Like a Sun that Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth by Allie Hankins, composer, string quintet director, and viola,^[27] dance performance (October, 2014)
• Identify by Caspar Sonnet, composer and viola,^[28] LP (Marriage Records, 2013)
• Belfast Sessions by Davis Hooker, string trio director, composer, and viola,^[29] LP (self-released, 2012)
• Annabel's Wake written by Jordan Dykstra and Danny Elfman,^[30] composer and mellotron, Restless (2011 film) directed by Gus Van Sant, film soundtrack (Sony Pictures Classics, 2011)
• Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors, string quartet director and viola,^[31] LP (Domino Records, 2009)
• Stillness Is The Move by Dirty Projectors, string quartet director and viola,^[32] LP (Domino Records, 2009)
• False Face Society by Valet, composer and viola,^[33] LP (Mexican Summer, 2009)
• Malaikat Dan Singa by Arrington De Dionyso, composer and viola, LP and CD (K Records, 2009)
• Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money by Jared Mees and the Grown Children, composer, string director, and viola, CD (Tender Loving Empire, 2008)^[34]

Other projects

• Rob Walmart - an improvised electronic music collective

Notes

1. an Official Selection of the Oregon Independent Film Festival in 2012 ^[4]

References

1. "Stream Jordan Dykstra's Audition - New Music - Impose Magazine". Imposemagazine.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
2. "Bethany violist heads to Iceland to study with composer Daniel Bjarnason". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
3. "A Quiet Night". Vimeo. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
4. "Aug 28th". Oregonindependentfilmfest.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
5. "pianodrones, by Jordan Dykstra". Jordan Dykstra. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
6. "sundries, by Jordan Dykstra". Jordan Dykstra. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
7. "Phonography, by Jordan Dykstra". Jordan Dykstra. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
8. "Jordan Dykstra - Audition (Vinyl, LP) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
9. "Jordan Dykstra - "Darkened Bar" (oxalis version) - PREMIERE - Chocolate Grinder - Tiny Mix Tapes". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
10. "Like a Sun That Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth, by Jordan Dykstra". Jordan Dykstra. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
11. "Three Horns, by Jordan Dykstra". Jordan Dykstra. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
12. "Elegant Music, by Jordan Dykstra". Jordan Dykstra. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
13. "EV003: Stressings, by Jordan Dykstra". Editions Verde. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
14. "textura". www.textura.org. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
15. "Jordan Dykstra - Stressings". Discogs. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
16. "Stressings by Jordan Dykstra on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
17. "Chimes Nine Times, by Jordan Dykstra". Jordan Dykstra. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
18. "Chimes Nine Times by Jordan Dykstra on Apple Music". iTunes. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
19. "iTunes - Music - Takes Swift Strides - EP by Dash!". iTunes. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
20. "TSS REMIXES - Jordan Dykstra". Jordan Dykstra. 1 March 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
21. "EV004: College Hotel, by Beau Breather". Editions Verde. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
22. "textura". www.textura.org. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
23. "seems like it means something else, by Tom Blood & Jordan Dykstra". Tom Blood & Jordan Dykstra. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
24. "EV002: Tom Blood & Jordan Dykstra - EXP3 | Editions Verde". editionsverde.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
25. "Tom Blood & Jordan Dykstra - Business Of Composing For Strings". Businessofcomposingforstrings.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
26. "iTunes - Music - Fangs, But No Fanks - EP by White Fang & The Righteous and Harmonious Fists". iTunes. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
27. "Portland choreographer Allie Hankins' full-length debut 'Like a Sun That Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth' resurrects the movements of Vaslav Nijinsky". OregonLive.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
28. "Where Are All The Watchmen? - Caspar Sonnet". Caspar Sonnet. 5 April 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
29. "Davis Hooker - Business Of Composing For Strings". Businessofcomposingforstrings.com. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
30. "Restless (2011) - Soundtrack.Net". Soundtrack.net. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
31. "Dirty Projectors - Albums". Dirtyprojectors.net. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
32. "Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
33. "Valet - False Face Society (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
34. https://web.archive.org/web/20130514041353/https://www.tenderlovingempire.com/products-page/tle-music/jared-mees-the-grown-children-caffeine-alcohol-sunshine-money/. Archived from the original on May 14, 2013. Retrieved December 26, 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• 2014 Textura review of "Audition"
• 2014 Impose interview and article
• 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes video premiere article
• 2016 Tiny Mix Tapes "Stressings" video premiere
• 2016 Textura review of "Stressings"
• 2016 Exclaim video premiere of "I'm Not A Horse Person, Dog" from "Stressings"
• 2016 THRU Media review of "Stressings"
• 2016 THRU Media review of "College Hotel" by Beau Breather