Caloric

34.

This year I:

- (briefly) taught at a college
- got my driver's license
- completed a full course of EMDR
- started reading books again
- began learning the flute
- presented sound art at a museum
- played a bike game I've dreamt about a decade ago
- helped shoot a tiny movie
- watched my baby cousin get married

I also did things that were *actually* important, like learning to repair and maintain important relationships, how to be proud of myself, and how to find connection where I previously thought there was none.

I can't overstate how each of the above was only possible due to those connections -- the care, generosity, kindness and guidance of people I feel deeply connected to.

Each year is comprised of billions of tiny moments, and I'm really thankful to everyone who shared even slivers of theirs with me.

I hope to see you next year, too.

Experiencial, existential, experimental, emotional, evocative, eminent.

Cords plug in, sounds come out, hearts and bodies move.

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🌕 Daedelus
🌗 No Sir E
🌑 Caloric

Dancing is likely, and likely required.

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PYXIS
25 Manton Ave 02909.
21+ // $10 - 20 sliding scale

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Hi! Dailen here! I like Blue Objects. 🌀

I've been about a million things, and right now I'm a musician, DJ, sound artist, researcher, educator, and third-space organizer!

I think about spaces for people almost as much as I think about sounds, having helped create some local nice zones for people to connect in.

Currently I'm running a tiny sound school that lives in a slightly-less-tiny collectively-run venue / sound-focused community center. They are and .pvd , respectively.

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The slides you see now are things I've been doing or thinking about.

Points of interest:

[ Slide 2 ] : Some tools I'm using for the residency. Blue Objects are good luck.

[ Slides 7 & 10 ]: I love "The Heat" by Toni Braxton

[ Slide 13] : I've been looking into how instruments are built, with a keen interest in woodwinds! I've actually made a couple mangey flutes that I adore deeply. Technically a u-lock is kinda like a sideblown xun with a single tone hole.

[ Slide 16] : I've been playing with how the apps we use everyday might be sound sources in performance or grotesque fonts of inspiration. I have a favorite IG glitch that continues to play the audio from an ad over anything you look at in the advertisers page. In that video I'm looking for fun rhythms and accompaniments.

This year I learned that at their core humans are generally good.

And by transitive property I must also be good, and by that same transitive property every person that I meet must be good as well.

Lean into love and forgive yourself. The rest will follow. :)

The rumors are true. 🦋⏳

12.31.2025 // 10:00:00 PM -- ?

5 DJs.

$0 - 20 sliding scale donation. Support the space!