John Davis
John Davis is an artist and teacher living in Northern California. His work is a synthesis of the social, political, and the personal, with an aesthetic rooted in experimentation and improvisation.
John Davis is an artist and teacher living in Northern California. His work is a synthesis of the social, political, and the personal, with an aesthetic rooted in experimentation and improvisation.
Ask the dust
Hailing from Northern California, John Davis is a sound artist, composer and filmmaker who has released music on labels such as Root Strata and Digitalis. With “Ask the Dust,” he offers up a moving suite of compositions made using a plethora of instrumentation including guitar, piano, tape loops, Max/MSP, field recordings and the newest addition to his arsenal, a complex assortment of Blacet synthesizer modules. Davis uses the synth not as the crux of his recordings but as a tool among many in h…