dysonfinearts

broken glass

2012-01-07T20:38:00.000-08:00

broken glass

lyrics by

poet

david love lewis

music and performance by

alan dyson

a dysonfinearts production

falling off the edge of the world

2011-12-29T19:07:00.000-08:00

falling off the edge of the world

lyrics by david love lewis

music and performance by alan dyson

2011

moonlight revisited

2011-12-29T11:25:00.000-08:00

moonlight revisited

lyrics by david love lewis

music and performance by alan dyson

sail away

2011-12-21T16:30:00.000-08:00

sail away

written by randy newman

these are the drawings of louisiana artist leonard maiden

they reminded me of the newman song, so i produced a version of my own as a backdrop for some of leonard's amazing work.

to learn more about leonard and his work go to:

firebirdlbm@yahoo.com

leonardmaiden.blogspot.com

Cafe Du Monde

2011-12-19T21:51:00.000-08:00

cafe du monde

original song written and performed

alan dyson

new orleans / shreveport louisiana

2011

live performance

2011-12-12T18:06:00.000-08:00

an informal performance of poetry and song by

david love lewis

and

alan dyson

come as you are, bring what you wish, prepare to listen.

please rsvp.

780-4454
salandyson@comcast.net

within me and without me

2011-11-20T06:22:00.001-08:00

within me and without me

alan 'n amram

2011-11-06T08:18:00.000-08:00

I get to meet legendary beat poet musician, composer, and cultural evolutionary David Amram!

The high point of 2011 for me.

Thanks to:

Stan Carpenter for the photos.

Centenary College for hosting a week long visit...and

Matt Crowson, Shreveport's Cultural Ambassador for making this happen!

donna moore suite

2011-08-05T14:08:00.000-07:00

donna moore suite 1-4

circa 1993
artist donna moore modeled for centenary college
i was fortunate to supervise the life drawing studio
she passed away in 2010 of cancer

the link below will take you to a youtube file

"x-ray to my soul"
an original tune in memory of artists
donna moore, george burton, and scott griffin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a56DPWe62Lw

al & dave's american songbook

2011-07-03T13:13:00.000-07:00

turns out we've been collaborating on this work for nearly a decade.

it all started when david gave me a short collection of his poems, two of those became songs that landed on my 2003 compilation called SKYSCRAPER.

david then gave me a stack of his poetry, and over time some

eighteen songs have come forth.

the photo above is where i work on creating the songs.

currently working on recording this body of work

the link below takes you to a you tube video of
"i used to dream"
please enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO7xKLy4dFg&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

al & dave's songbook....live performance

2011-06-30T03:53:00.000-07:00

original poetry by david love lewis

original music and song by alan dyson

performed live

reflected light

2011-05-16T13:45:00.000-07:00

reflected light

downtown shreveport

within me and without me

2011-04-25T04:55:00.000-07:00

within me and without me

1990

self portrait

x-ray to my soul

2011-04-04T06:24:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a56DPWe62Lw

its been a a little more than a year since we lost donna moore and george burton.
artists of the highest caliber for our region.
re-posting this knowing all of us are here but for a short time, and these great minds made bold marks among us.
i'm grateful to have collaborated with them.

lost on texas III

2011-03-22T08:39:00.000-07:00

green door

texas avenue

shreveport

lost on texas II

2011-03-20T09:16:00.000-07:00

"this way"

1544 Texas Ave.

Shreveport

lost on texas

2011-03-19T06:05:00.000-07:00

1544 Texas Ave.

Shreveport

hot nuts

2011-03-15T17:40:00.000-07:00

"hot nuts"

southern maid donuts

hearne ave.

shreveport

wind roller

2011-02-05T08:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpu7GFhnOv0

wind roller

kinetic sculpture by
lin emery

ogden museum
new orleans
2011

music by
alan dyson
late 20th century
produced for
a visual sound and movement company

alexandra's oval room

2011-02-02T04:25:00.000-08:00

jazz player by baron de'callatay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmHOIHzNKrY

alexandra's oval room
new orleans, louisiana
jan. 2011
piano improvisations
casa d'arte
shreveport, louisiana
april 2000

cypress sanctuary III

2011-01-27T08:58:00.001-08:00

cypress sanctuary

metaphor

2011-01-26T16:20:00.000-08:00

metaphor

gospel de louisiane

2011-01-19T12:18:00.001-08:00

in louisiana, legislation was devised to allow concealed firearms in churches.
anyone with a proper permit could have carried prior to this legislation,
thus accenting a politic of fear and division,
slowly evaporating faith in
peace and love.

2010-12-25T06:16:00.000-08:00

this is my church.
it has no political boundaries.
it practices or sanctions no religion.
it fosters no hate.
it provides sustenance to all without prejudice.
...it is the vehicle to enlightenment for all that will harmonize with it.

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01/16/11

i used to dream

2010-11-24T18:59:00.000-08:00

'enter here' d.e.X.a.d. 2010

i used to dream
original poetry by david love lewis
music and video by s. alan dyson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO7xKLy4dFg

i used to dream

'til they swallowed me

long night stretches
cold and dark
in all directions.

from my station
at the top
of the ferris wheel
cars come silently
toward us.

metal boxes
shining away from us.

hold on tight.
don't fall out.

nodding out at work.
cold brought me back.

cold wind
that stops dreams
brings me back
to book.

david love lewis

"broken glass"

2010-10-21T14:20:00.000-07:00

'glass house' - debbie buchanan engle (work in progress)

'broken glass' - poetry by david love lewis, music and performance by alan dyson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOI7-YC0Krc&feature=mfu_in_order&playnext=1&videos=4jgrRwetI10

'broken glass"

i'm so glad your soul
belongs to jesus, lately your good manners
and much else have eluded me;
we promised no more nukes,
no more point-blank sights, but you
need to zero in, to wield the cerem0nial knife:
a feral child thrashing away with occam's razor.

that's why i had to get out
and see the world or at lest the plush
mamas on the other side of the street.
naked and forked, i forked my way
to the other side of lonely avenue;
sure all the time you saw me from
your lighted window and disapproved.

and when they left me bruised and bleeding,
as hungry for death as death in life can be,
you scolded and screamed and called me lost
and wrote me off.

by god's mercy i didn't die; step by step
on the muddy road back i called distance
from you a good thing' a thick clot hearsay
poisoned what was left of your milk's kindness.

we had one more run in us, and made it;
pilgrims dazzled with our brilliant runs---
fast eddie and calamaity jane dance in
quick time and promised each other more.
and if the songs stop now, i will be blamed,
pilloried in a sheet of fire for some real slight
or some imagined neglect: i have called too much
or not enough.

there's only one thing left i'd like to know---
can you still trip the lightning and catch
its glow in your clear smooth jar and hold
it up like a child, as surprised as anyone
with its brassy glow?

these others catch their fireflies and are satisfied;
and i would be too if i didn't know,
hadn't always known
better.

david love lewis

paper bridge circa 1979

2010-10-21T09:52:00.000-07:00

a brief history.

2010-10-14T06:23:00.001-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lzoSD__qvw&playnext=1&videos=Z-5PiNn2wZo&feature=mfu_in_order

"a brief history" - poem by david love lewis, music and performance by s. alan dyson.

"a brief history"

thanks to my brother's smooth machine,
i'm snug in the backseat with one of the double-tit twins
new year's 151 rum, smooth as glass.

this is the living end for the tangle-foot cross-eyed kid
hand stroking plush flesh-cones and it's so damned clod outside,
but so warm between angora and flesh.

in a heartbeat, the streets will turn unlucky.
the politician's bloody broom will sweep in the new year
with new words to notch our hearts...

landing zone, body count, pungy stick, ear necklace, v.c., body bag,
rpg, wmd....
no matter where you stand, you'll be bloodied.
swallowed by the t.v.lens

asians say,
a woman lets a man come inside her,
she cages the tiger.

cold kali swallows blood for come
scores of dead stand in nightmare formation.
salute poor haunted lbj..

high on limestone bluffs of the pedernales,
the sharp imprint of thousands of ancient shells
prove this heartland's been drowned before.
but never in crimson.
never in the blood of a setting sun.
that rises, have a world away,
over a perfect hell.

david love lewis.

economic breakdown by alan dyson + d.b. engle

2010-09-06T07:42:00.000-07:00

Economic Breakdown

They closed down the plant

Sent us all home

Now I’m all alone and

Missin’ you

We had us a good thing

Till the man let me go

You used to call me sugar daddy

Now you don’t love me no mo’

So I Kept the old dodge

Fired the house keep

The bed’s always made

Cause I don’t get no sleep

So I been drinkin’ since early this mornin’

yeah, the economic melt-down left me with nothing to lose

The union man said

They’d make us a way

But I saw you on his arm

Just yesterday

Your love was sweet

My whiskey is sour

Turns out your love was worth

twelve bucks an hour

Lost my retirement, my 401k

No credit, no pension, more bills to pay

Man at the top took it all, got clean away

The man down at the church, he used to say

Better get down on you knees

Now he’s sippin bourbon on the bench right next to me

So we’ve been drinkin’ since early in the morning

yeah, the economic break down changes everything

lyrics by s. alan dyson & d.b. engle

music and performance by s. alan dyson

proposed sculpture

2010-08-25T11:54:00.000-07:00

X-Ray To My Soul 071910

2010-08-01T13:09:00.000-07:00

X ray to my soul

March 2010

I walk now with a cane

My words may seem to some inane

But I just can’t stop them from running thru my brain

People ask me to explain

The facts are painted and are quite plain

This life has filled me full of pain

But I refuse to let it render me insane.

There are things that I remember

I cannot say out loud

So I bury them in a riddle with the words that I write down

They’re hidden in plain view

In technically precise

Vibrant hues

My bones cry out for truth justice

My bones cry out for healing to be known

My bones cry out for love

Down to the marrow

In my youth my escape became

Alcohol and LSD

It was just a way of life for me

Is this life a hallucination?

I feel such alienation

I’ve been ostracized, censored, gagged and despised

With the mysteries on the canvas

The buried body, the howling dog

The fish woman and the harlequin

I’ll stitch my self inside my own skin

I’ve said all the truth that I have known

With a fearless x-ray to my soul

"seeing heaven"

2010-06-28T05:54:00.000-07:00

New song to David Love Lewis' 1987 poem "LIVE MODELS".
Thanks Robert for taking the time to capture and edit this!
Please check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyP1jVB7KJo

The Ballad of the Miraculous Rescue of Michael Williams...Massacree

2010-06-19T09:29:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjVn3Y1JZU8

My thanks to Clinton & Dana McCommon of Fairfield Studios, Nick Palmer for the great guitar licks, Alana Dyson for lyrical and vocal input, Debbie Engle for lyrical input (and no vocal input), and the resilient Michael Williams for surviving such a weighty experience.

skyscraper

2010-05-20T09:08:00.000-07:00

dyson | skyscraper | CD Baby

cdbaby.com

Listen to and buy dyson music on CD Baby. Buy the CD skyscraper by dyson on the independent record store by musicians for musicians

this collection of original songs features legendary bassist joe osborn as well as other excellent louisiana musicians and poets.

poet collaborators include: david love lewis, rumi, alana l. dyson, and carol bailey.

musical collaborators include:
darren, joe, and chris osborn, denise greenhaw, greg williams, richard harold, michael reed barker, john peck, henry edwards, ron lynn, alana l. dyson, blue martin, chris allen, brian basco, direy red crenshaw, kevin maloney, robin vosbury, michael westbrook, scott griffin.

recorded at sandbox recording studio

shreveport farmer's market song & video

2009-06-15T05:58:00.000-07:00

Farmer's markets represent to me an attitude of community, independence, peace and harmony - and in similar spirit - this song and video are a collaboration of "do-it-your-self-ers" Fairfield Studios allowed me to record the song in their booth and Kay Kennedy shot the video and edited it for submission to the Smithsonian - it was ACCEPTED!! Please take the link and enjoy scenes from this season's first Farmer's Market in Shreveport. "Smells like victory!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyzFdHEhfOw&feature=player_embedded

For more information on the Farmer's Market go to:

http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/M2305

http://www.shreveportbossierfunguide.com/organization.php?id=253

painted limestone III

2009-03-27T15:05:00.001-07:00

painted limestone III
march 09
8" x 4"
colored pencil on limestone
Susan & Rand H. Falbaum collection

painted limestone II

2009-03-27T15:01:00.000-07:00

painted limestone II
march 09
6" x 12"
watercolor and colored pencil on limestone

painted limestone I

2009-03-27T14:54:00.000-07:00

painted limestone I
march 09
10" x 6"
watercolor and colored pencils on limestone
Dolly & Mike McSwain collection

bronze heart III

2009-01-27T15:05:00.001-08:00

bronze heart III completed 1998
cast bronze
4" x 4" x 1.5"

limited edition prints and cards available
contact the artist:
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

photography by Scott Griffin

bronze heart II

2009-01-27T15:02:00.001-08:00

bronze heart II completed 1998
cast bronze
4" x 4" x 1.5"

contact the artist
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

photography by Scot Griffin

bronze heart I

2009-01-27T14:56:00.000-08:00

bronze heart I completed 1998
cast bronze
4" x 4" x 1.5"

contact the artist;
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

photography by Scott Griffin

bronze heart suite

2009-01-27T07:34:00.000-08:00

Bronze heart suite completed 1998
cast bronze
4" x 4" x 1.5" each

contact the artist:
salandyson@camcast.net
318-780-4454

photography by Scott Griffin

Church I

2009-01-26T14:39:00.000-08:00

"Church I" completed 1994
paint pens on plastic laminate 36" diameter

a "family & friends" project

Contact the artist:
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

church II

2009-01-26T14:30:00.000-08:00

"Church II" completed 2001
cast bronze 5" diameter

Contact the artist:
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

Church III

2009-01-26T12:10:00.001-08:00

"Church III" completed 2008
digital media

Thanks, NASA.

Limited edition prints available.
Contact the artist:
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

"...thinks he's a peacock..."

2009-01-21T07:36:00.001-08:00

"...thinks he's a peacock..." 1994
rubber duck, hypodermic syringes, food dye

limited edition digital prints available
contact the artist:
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

Birth, Works, Ressurection

2009-01-08T06:19:00.000-08:00

Birth

Works

Ressurection

Completed 1978
wood, nylon cord, lumber, telephone pole cross-ties

Photos by Pam Dabrowski

Limited edition digital prints available.
Contact the artist:
salandyson@comcast.net
318-780-4454

123108 untitled limestone, slate, iron, stone

2008-12-31T10:36:00.000-08:00

Untitled, 123108
Limestone, Iron,Stone, Slate.
42"x6"x46"

Thanks to Rand and Susan Falbaum for allowing me to confiscate some building materials from their new Bistineau home.

dysonfinearts

broken glass

falling off the edge of the world

moonlight revisited

sail away

Cafe Du Monde

live performance

within me and without me

alan 'n amram

donna moore suite

al & dave's american songbook

al & dave's songbook....live performance

reflected light

within me and without me

x-ray to my soul

its been a a little more than a year since we lost donna moore and george burton. artists of the highest caliber for our region.re-posting this knowing all of us are here but for a short time, and these great minds made bold marks among us.i'm grateful to have collaborated with them.

lost on texas III

lost on texas II

lost on texas

hot nuts

wind roller

alexandra's oval room

cypress sanctuary III

metaphor

gospel de louisiane

this is my church.it has no political boundaries.it practices or sanctions no religion.it fosters no hate.it provides sustenance to all without prejudice....it is the vehicle to enlightenment for all that will harmonize with it.ad

01/16/11

i used to dream

"broken glass"

paper bridge circa 1979

a brief history.

economic breakdown by alan dyson + d.b. engle

proposed sculpture

X-Ray To My Soul 071910

"seeing heaven"

The Ballad of the Miraculous Rescue of Michael Williams...Massacree

skyscraper

shreveport farmer's market song & video

painted limestone III

painted limestone II

painted limestone I

bronze heart III

bronze heart II

bronze heart I

bronze heart suite

Church I

church II

Church III

"...thinks he's a peacock..."

Birth, Works, Ressurection

123108 untitled limestone, slate, iron, stone

its been a a little more than a year since we lost donna moore and george burton.
artists of the highest caliber for our region.
re-posting this knowing all of us are here but for a short time, and these great minds made bold marks among us.
i'm grateful to have collaborated with them.

this is my church.
it has no political boundaries.
it practices or sanctions no religion.
it fosters no hate.
it provides sustenance to all without prejudice.
...it is the vehicle to enlightenment for all that will harmonize with it.

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