See also: The Dust Dive Flash, Laura Ortman, Ken Switzer, Bryan Zimmerman

The Dust Dive’s unconventional sound borrows from ill-American landscapes, edge-city teenage hangouts, and overgrown, overlooked places. Conceived in a noisy railroad apartment in Brooklyn, New York, the trio’s songs possess the quirky sincerity of a youth recital while burrowing into mesmerizing, urban pastoral, and ghostly terrain. Employing violin, chord organ, piano, electric guitar, sampled field recordings, ham radio transmissions, musical saw, and two- and three-part vocals that are often counter-melodic and uniquely filtered, their sparse yet lush and textural sound-visions have been compared to Syd Barrett, The Flaming Lips, Smog, Palace, Dirty Three, and The Velvet Underground. Always taking a multidisciplinary approach, their live performances feature film and video projections that serve as a serene yet provocative visual accompaniment to the music.

The Dust Dive’s critically-acclaimed debut full-length, “Asleep or Awake Walk,” was released by free103point9 in September 2004, and in Europe by Own Records in December 2005.

at Hudson Waterfront Park, Hudson, NY. The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude perform at Hudson Waterfront Park, Hudson, NY. at Hudson Waterfront Park, Hudson, NY. The Dust Dive

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  • Radia 184_Radio Action III, Oct. 9, 2008. Program for the Radia network about free103point9 "Radio Action III" CD, including five tracks. (audio/mpeg, 38.5 MB)
  • Radio Action III CD release performances at New Museum_080708, Aug. 7, 2008. Performances from (in order) Tom Roe; Damian Catera; Tianna Kenndy; George Positive, Samuel Dishy, Maxwell McDonald, Aaron Reed, and Kevin Smith; Joshua Fried and Todd Merrell; LoVid and Howard Huang; and The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude. All performerances inspired by recordings for free103point9's Radio Action III CD, with free103point9 Transmission Artists using radio somehow in their works. (audio/mpeg, 33.1 MB)
  • Postcards of Real Worlds (live), Sept. 24, 2004. CD release show for "Radio Action II," a CD with all artists using radio as an instrument or theme. "Postcards of Real Worlds" is The Dust Dive selection on the CD, and this version was recorded live this night that also included performances from 31 Down, Matt Bua, Matt Mikas, Sabers, and Tom Roe. (audio/mpeg, 9.0 MB)
  • Party_Cove: The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude collaboration for Radio Action III for Radio Web MACBA Radio Action III is a special program for Radio Web MACBA and the next free103point9 Audio Dispatch CD Release. RWM is a radio-phonic project on the MACBA (Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona) website that explores the possibilities of the internet and radio as spaces of synthesis and exhibition. This song is a collaboration between The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude. (audio/mpeg, 6.9 MB)
  • The Dust Dive at ~scopeNewYork 2006 for ScopeOnAir (audio/mpeg, 50.4 MB)
  • The Dust Dive_042705 The Dust Dive performed at Anthology Film Archives in Manhattan after a Radio 4x4 and the film "Making Waves." (audio/mpeg, 62.1 MB)
  • The Dust Dive_Campfire Sounds 2007 Live performance at free103point9's Wave Farm. (audio/mpeg, 21.7 MB)

Video

  • Postcards of the Real Words , Feb. 14, 2008. The Dust Dive. For free103point9's contribution for a program of works for the Video Gentlemen’s BYOTV exhibition at the New American Art Union in Portland, Oregon. (video/mov, 42.0 MB)
  • The Dust Dive at Wave Farm: Campfire Sounds 2006, July 15, 2007. Video and audio documentation of The Dust Dive's performance during Campfire Sounds 2006 (video/mov, 58.4 MB)
  • Radio Action III CD release video performances at New Museum_080708 Live performances from (in order) Tom Roe; Damian Catera; Tianna Kennedy; Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson's group that included George Positive, Samuel Dishy, Maxwell McDonald, Aaron Reed, and Kevin Smith; Joshua Fried and Todd Merrell; LoVid with Howard Huang; and The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude, all performing for the CD release at the New Museum. Video footage courtesy of the New Museum. (video/mov, 1.1 GB)

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