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.Dorian Concept is also a member of the Austrian funk band
Jacob's Salty and Bamboozling Ladder (JSBL). He also has periodically
toured as a keyboarder for Flying Lotus (with Richard Spaven on drums)
and collaborated with the Cinematic Orchestra.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. 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" 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. He is among the self-proclaimed generation of "bedroom
producers" 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.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. 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, and Dorian
Concept subsequently started to receive invitations to major
electronic music festivals. 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.
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.Dorian Concept is also a member of the Austrian funk band
Jacob's Salty and Bamboozling Ladder (JSBL). He also has periodically
toured as a keyboarder for Flying Lotus (with Richard Spaven on drums)
and collaborated with the Cinematic Orchestra.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. 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" 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. He is among the self-proclaimed generation of "bedroom
producers" 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.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. 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, and Dorian
Concept subsequently started to receive invitations to major
electronic music festivals. 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.
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