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Dorian Concept (born Oliver Thomas Johnson; 1984 in Vienna), is an Austrian composer, producer, and keyboard artist, whose work draws on an eclectic variety of sources including modal and free jazz, funk, hip-hop, and electronic, ambient, and soundscape music. Johnson adopted his stage name as a teenager as a reference to the Dorian scale.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="An exclusive interview with Dorian Concept" by Free the Wax on shanghailist.com, February, 2009 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Austrian Cultural Forum New York: music )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ASK THE DJ: Dorian Concept )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dorian Concept Interview - Soundcrash Podcast Sept 2012 )〕 Dorian Concept is also a member of the Austrian funk band Jacob's Salty and Bamboozling Ladder (JSBL).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Artists )〕 He also has periodically toured as a keyboarder for Flying Lotus (with Richard Spaven on drums) and collaborated with the Cinematic Orchestra. ==Biography== He studied multimedia art with a focus on acoustic engineering and graphics at the University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg from 2005-2009. During this period, he won Elektronikland Salzburg prizes for composition in electronic music in 2005 and 2007 and released his first EP on line in 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=.:. EARSTROKE .:. )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dorian Concept – Seek When Is Her () )〕 Between 2006 and 2008, he also posted a popular series of five short videos on YouTube under the moniker of "yorktownrecreation" called "Fooling Around on Micro Korg"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fooling around on Micro Korg )〕 that show him improvising on the Micro Korg (and other keyboards, such as the Alesis Micron, Korg Nanokey, and Casio SA-21) and totalled over one million views after posting.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dorian Concept )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dorian Concept - Interview )〕 He is among the self-proclaimed generation of "bedroom producers"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=An exclusive interview with Dorian Concept )〕 who participated in the emergence of an international beat community based the accessibility of digital production technology and early Internet fora, such as MySpace, in the first decade of the 2000s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=H∆SHTAG$ - Don't Call It #Beats - Episode 4 )〕 In 2007, the BBC Radio 1 producer Benji B "discovered" Dorian Concept at the Red Bull Music Academy in Toronto, where Paul Movahedi, a Viennese bandmate of his and RMBA participant, gave Benji B a CD with 10 unreleased Dorian Concept tracks that Benji B started airing on his show and playing in London clubs.〔See the interview with Dorian Concept, (【引用サイトリンク】title=92bpm: Method To His Madness: Dorian Concept )Benji B relates the story of his "discovery" of Dorian Concept at (redbullmusicacademy.com ), retrieved December 18, 2014.〕 BBC Radio 1's Gilles Peterson also started giving Dorian Concept air-time on his program "Worldwide" and included him in the line-up of worldwide events,〔Starting with the (Worldwide Awards ) on January 25, 2009 in London〕 and Dorian Concept subsequently started to receive invitations to major electronic music festivals.〔Including 5 Days Off (Amsterdam), Dour (Belgium), Elevate Festival (Graz), Lowlands (NL), Jazz Middelheim (Antwerp), Pukkelpop (Belgium), North Sea Jazz (Rotterdam), Numusic (Stavanger, Norway), Sziget (Budapest), Sónar (Barcelona and Tokoyo), St Jerome's Laneway Festival (Brisbane), Unsound (Kraków and New York), and Wilsonic (Bratislava), among others〕 He also participated in the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona in 2008 and has since been involved in a number of Red Bull Music Academy events.〔See "(Dorian Concept )" on the Red Bull Music Academy website. 〕 His first album, ''When Planets Explode,'' appearead in 2009 preceded and followed by a number of EPs and remixes. In 2010, Ninja Tune invited him to contribute a track, "Her Tears Taste Like Pears," to its twentieth anniversary box set, ''Ninja Tune XX'', and Ninja released an EP of his under the same title shortly thereafter.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Her Tears Taste Like Pears )〕 He performed at a number of Ninja XX events in Europe in 2010, including the Ninja gala celebration at Royal Albert Hall with the London Metropolitan Orchestra and the Cinematic Orcherstra in November, where he arranged and performed tracks from his Ninja EP for an ensemble including London Metropolitan string quartet accompaniment and the Cinematic Orchestra's saxophonist Tom Chant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ninja Tune XX present The Cinematic Orchestra & Amon Tobin )〕 In 2011, Jason Swincoe invited him to continue his collaboration with Cinematic Orchestra by asking him to compose film music (with Tom Chant) for two avant-garde shorts by Peter Tscherkassky, "Outer Space" and "Dream Work," for the Cinematic Orchestra's "In Motion" series in which musicians are asked to compose original scores for classic short films, which also gave him an additional opportunity to perform in a formal concert settings with string accompaniment at the Barbican Centre in London and Tokyo.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Barbican - The Cinematic Orchestra )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Cinematic Orchestra – In Motion #1 (2012)» download by NewAlbumReleases.net )〕 He also has performed in a more formal setting at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Austrian Cultural Forum New York: CONCERT - DJ DORIAN CONCEPT & VJ ASTRID STEINER - MOVING SOUNDS FESTIVAL 2009 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Austrian Cultural Forum New York: 10 - ACFNY - 12 - ANNIVERSARY CONCERT - ARGENTO CHAMBER ENSEMBLE - FRANZ HACKL - DORIAN CONCEPT )〕 As of 2011, his touring and production activity dropped off with the exception of a few remixes, and he spend over two years working on a new sound and material for his second album, ''Joined Ends,'' which Ninja Tune released in October 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dorian Concept」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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