Gahlord Dewald
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Gahlord Dewald | |
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 Double bassist Gahlord Dewald performing with live modular synthesizer. | |
| Occupation | musician |
| Website | https://gahlorddewald.com |
Gahlord Dewald (born 1974) is a classically trained[1] experimental musician[2] and multidisciplinary artist. He is known as a bassist[3] and electronic musician.[4]
Dewald has a B.A. from Marlboro College.[5] He studied with Salvatore Macchia and Mark Morton, and participated in workshops and masterclasses with Barre Philips.
Professional life
A free jazz experimental musician, Dewald has performed as a soloist on the Hawai'i Classical Performance Series at Hawaiʻi Public Radio,[6] at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity,[7] and at New Music Gathering as a featured soloist.
Dewald performs with Toussaint St. Negritude[8] in the duo Jaguar Stereo.[9] Other frequent collaborators include Jessica Ackerley,[10] rock band Charles, Dead or Alive? (named "7 Bands to Watch" in Seven Days VT),[11] Greg Davis,[1] Jabe LeDoux,[1] Eric Segalstad in the band Fat Tiger,[12] and Ariel Zevon.[13]
As a composer, Dewald has written scores for films such as Hanging in There (2017).[14][15]
As a cinematographer, Dewald did the cinematography for the sky in our hands, our hands in the sky (2023), a single-channel installation directed by Leilehua Lanzilotti.[16] Dewald has also worked as an animator, with credits on projects such as 7 to 10 Days (2004)[17] and on the Dog Sharks series.
Dewald founded the Community of Sound[2] in Burlington, Vermont, a non-traditional performance spaces with resources for sound art and production facilities.[18] He curated the AM Frequency Series[19] and CoSine Series as an extension of that project.
Dewald has been guest music faculty of the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity,[20] University of Missouri,[21] and Lehman College.[22]