TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE

The Dust Dive

Asleep or Awake Walk (AD022) Cover. The Dust Dive

Bryan Zimmerman's Corpse of Discovery performed at Spotty Dog Books & Ale and WGXC.. Photo by Tom Roe. (Jul 03, 2010)

The Dust Dive + Latitude/Longitude during Campfire Sounds 2008. at Hudson Waterfront Park, Hudson, NY. The Dust Dive and Latitude/Longitude perform "Party Cove" from "Radio Action III" live during Campfire Sounds 2008. (Jul 26, 2008)

The Dust Dive's Bryan Zimmerman and Laura Ortman during Campfire Sounds 2008. at Hudson Waterfront Park, Hudson, NY. (Jul 26, 2008)

Radio Plays flyer. (Nov 08, 2003)

Formed in Brooklyn, NY, in 2000, The Dust Dive is an "art-rock" band that regularly employs short-wave and citizen-band radio transmissions, radio-assisted amplification and feedback, and recorded telephone conversations in their musical recordings and performances. Band-members include multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist Laura Ortman (a member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe and also founder of the Coast Orchestra); writer and monologuist Ken Switzer; and interdisciplinary artist and lyricist Bryan Zimmerman. Ortman and Zimmerman met in 1994 at the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts in Lawrence, and studied performance art with Roger Shimomura and installation art with Maria Velasco before graduating in 1996 and moving to Brooklyn, NY. In 1999 Ortman and Zimmerman met Switzer, and The Dust Dive was formed shortly thereafter in the Winter of 2000.

The Dust Dive lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.

BAND MEMBERS:
LAURA ORTMAN (1973, Whiteriver, Arizona, USA)
KEN SWITZER (1971, Springfield, MA, USA)
BRYAN ZIMMERMAN (1973, Kansas City, Missouri)

Singles:
"Postcards of Real Worlds" and "Party Cove" from the free103point9’s "Radio Action II" and Radio Action III" compilations (2004 and 2007, respectively)

Full-Length Albums
Asleep or Awake Walk ((free103point9, 2004)
Claws of Light (released by Own Records in 2006)