Discography of Published Works
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(last updated: 12/09)
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About
Posted by Erik | Filed under Uncategorized
Erik Deerly has worked as a performing and visual artist for over twenty years. He teaches in the School of Design Studies at the International Academy of Design & Technology-Chicago and serves as Chair of the Visual Communications Department. Concurrent positions include Principal, Deerly Creative, a Chicago based sound and new media design venture; Publisher & Managing Editor, Burning Word Magazine (First place national interactive design awards, 2002, South by Southwest).
Publications include: Émigré, Option, and College Music Journal. Recordings: Joshua Tree; Palm Desert; Dreaming Out Louder; Get Your La-La’s Out!; Baling Wire and Bubble Gum; Social Graces. Prior to joining the IADT-Chicago full time faculty in 2006, he taught visual communications courses for three years each at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the International Academy of Design & Technology-Chicago. Erik holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media from Columbia College Chicago and a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Northern Illinois University. Erik is a member of CAA and AIGA.
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Controlled Substances
Posted by Erik | Filed under Music, Video
Controlled Substances is an interactive media installation controlled by the real-time RSS feeds it displays. This video is a representation of the Quartz Composition. (2006)
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Tags: composer, composition, hunger, installation, interactive media, population, time, Video, water, world
Kent
Posted by Erik | Filed under Word
I love you, I told him
Meals on wheels didn’t come ’til three o’clock
He’s pissed
I love you too, he said, trying to swallow it back down
*
Rewind, thirty years:
Leisure suit and perm aside,
Dad’s never changed
Trouble with women, he says, they just want to be happy
He never remarried
Thanksgiving with my Mom—Christmas with Dad
I came home after college
He was an old man
*
He reads glossy magazines
Schools me on pop culture
On his 78th birthday he asked for Moby
Though lately he prefers punk
When I was young, I had this dream my dad was shot
in the chest with a cannonball
He came home in this dream; I could see right through
the big round hole
The wound was clean, as if he were made of cookie dough
I couldn’t bring myself to touch him
*
Gave my dad a hug the other day
We repaired his iTunes
Picked over cold lunchmeat
Snapped a few pictures, said goodbye
Three days later—snail-mail from Dad
Scrawled across the back of a carefully folded article
About Balinese Hip Hop:
I love you, too
Published in little bang, Volume 1, Number 1, 2008
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Standing Waves in Shoaling Water
Posted by Erik | Filed under Music, Video
On December of 2004 I set out to teach myself some basic video production software. Midway through a typical tutorial I heard news coming out of Asia that gave me cause to drop everything and begin new work with purpose. On December 28, 2004, I composed a multimedia and performance piece, Standing Waves in Shoaling Water. Written from the perspective of an American in the US attempting to get detailed accounts of the Tsunami, the piece calls for a single performer, world-band radio, tape recorders, bell and pre-recorded soundtracks. This audio work was first performed at Columbia College Chicago in January 2005. (2004-2005)
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Tags: arts, audio, chicago, columbia college chicago, composition, human, perspective, photographs, student, Teaching, time, tsunami, Video, water, world
