RECENT

* Cassette release for the Philiadelphia label Peasant Magik 2010 entitled OPEN GROUND now available! Release notes: 50 minutes of expertly composed and thoughtfully paced guitar and synth workouts. A true master of craft. Davis takes the simplest ideas and sculpts them into the most moving pieces I have had the pleasure of releasing. Essential listening.

* The Swedenborg Society in London selects the black box version of HALIDES for its upcoming 2010 short film festival.

* The 2010 Zebra Poetry International Film Festival selects the film/poetry collaboration between John Davis and Peter Streckfus IDIOT BIGMOUTH LEADS US TO A GATHERING OF BIRDS August 14th - August 17th, Berlin, Germany.

* Black box version of HALIDES was selected for VIDEOEX 2010 in Zurich, Switzerland, May 22nd - May 30th, and P'Silo Images Contre Nature, Marsailles, France, July 13th - July 17th, 2010.

* HALIDES DVD release on Root Strata consisting of the live music performance version of the film. Features sound collaboration with Maxwell August Croy is realeased.

* BETWEEN SUBJECTS was included in the L.A. Freewaves' 20th anniversary celebration at LACMA in July, 2010, coinciding with the launch of the collector’s edition book and DVD set that traces their two decades of promoting access to and participation in new media arts from 1989 – 2009. The book/DVD are available here.

* This past May, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art included MARK YOU MAKE BELIEVE MY DEAR, YES" as part of the exhibition "Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection" which opened September 20th running through the end of May, 2010.

* Interview about music for the BEAST BEATS blog.

* Soundtrack for the new Lawrence Jordan film COSMIC ALCHEMY, which opened San Francisco Cinematheque's first annual film festival, 2010, "Crossroads".

* MARK YOU MAKE BELIEVE MY DEAR, YES was featured in the Paris exhibition of Drifting Identity Station at the Centre International d’Accueil et d’Echanges des Récollets. A series of eleven photographs was also included.

* Other Cinema's Fall 09' series hosts "Optronica" with John Davis and koto musician Maxwell August Croy performing a collaborative sound piece to HALIDES. Also featured were Nate Boyce and Erik Wilson, aka Softserve.

* Nexmap's "Binary Cities: Experimental Film Screening Series" featured John Davis’ 2003 film MARK YOU MAKE BELIEVE MY DEAR, YES along with Canadian artist Marc Couroux’s "68/70".

* WHERE LIVES COME TO DIE: A recent soundtrack collaboration for a poem turned film with Scott V. from Oakland , text; Steve Lambert and Scott V. from Oakland, visuals; Nadia Awad, editing; John Davis, sound; Liz Filardi, titles. Completed with support from eyebeam.org .

* A recent soundtrack for Stephanie Dodes' three channel video installation EVERYTHING FOR NOTHING.