Jordan Dykstra

Jordan Dykstra (born January 26, 1985) is an American composer and viola player from Sioux City, Iowa, United States.^[1]

Dykstra studied composition at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California., Portland State University in Portland, Oregon., and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. He has worked as a composer on film music for Gus Van Sant and as a session violist and string director for Dirty Projectors. Dykstra has performed on solo viola at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, and at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland.

In 2014, Dykstra received an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission to apprentice with composer Daníel Bjarnason in Iceland.^[2]

Discography

as Jordan Dykstra

• Audition^[3] LP (Marriage Records / Shatter Your Leaves / Modern Documents, August 2014)^[4]

Four self-released albums since 2009

• Phonography - album of twenty field recordings (March 2014)
• #pianodrones - in three movements (December, 2012)
• A Quiet Night - film score (April, 2011) for "A Quiet Night"^{[5][lower-alpha 1]}
• sundries - an ongoing album (2013–present)

as DASH!

• TAKES SWIFT STRIDES Digital download card (Marriage Records, August 2009)^[7]
• TSS REMIXES Digital download card (Self released, March 2013)^[8]

with Tom Blood and Jordan Dykstra

• Preludes (November 2014)
• Greatest Hits Live: Volume One (May 2012)
• A June Afternoon (June 2011)
• The Act (June 2011)

All self-released^[9]

with The Righteous and Harmonious Fists

• Fangs, But No Fanks EP (Marriage Records, 2008)^[10]

Split 7" with White Fang

Credits

• Like a Sun that Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth by Allie Hankins, composer, string quintet director, and viola,^[11] dance performance (October, 2014)
• Identify by Caspar Sonnet, composer and viola,^[12] LP (Marriage Records, 2013)
• Belfast Sessions by Davis Hooker, string trio director, composer, and viola,^[13] LP (self-released, 2012)
• Annabel's Wake written by Jordan Dykstra and Danny Elfman,^[14] composer and mellotron, Restless (2011 film) directed by Gus Van Sant, film soundtrack (Sony Pictures Classics, 2011)
• Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors, string quartet director and viola,^[15] LP (Domino Records, 2009)
• Stillness Is The Move by Dirty Projectors, string quartet director and viola,^[16] LP (Domino Records, 2009)
• False Face Society by Valet, composer and viola,^[17] LP (Mexican Summer, 2009)
• Malaikat Dan Singa by Arrington De Dionyso, composer and viola, LP and CD (K Records, 2009)
• Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money by Jared Mees and the Grown Children, composer, string director, and viola, CD (Tender Loving Empire, 2008)^[18]

Other projects

• Rob Walmart - an improvised electronic music collective

Notes

References

External links

• 2014 Textura review of "Audition"
• 2014 Impose interview and article
• 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes video premiere article