Jason de Couto
The Contact Zone Crew | 2008 | 30:00mins | Turntable Poetry Project | Canada
Jason de Couto is an emerging artist primarily focusing on jazz piano and turntablism. He has collaborated with local writers and artists, Hiromi Goto, Fred Wah, David Khang, and most frequently, Wayde Compton. He completed a double major in Music and English at UBC in 2004; graduated from the Simon Fraser University Education Program (PDP) in 2007, focusing on Music and Language Arts pedagogy, and has completed 4th year Jazz Piano Performance courses at Capilano College. He is currently an elementary teacher for the Richmond School Board.
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The Contact Zone Crew is Wayde Compton and Jason de Couto’s turntable poetry project. Genetically representing three continents on four Technics 1200s, The Contact Zone Crew performs live mixes of original dub plate poetry with crate-dug hip-hop, jazz, and spoken word vinyl. A performance history was recently published in Event 32.1 (Spring 2003). To read an essay on the project, go to Horizon Zero; when there, click “view this article in flash” to hear an audio file of The Reinventing Wheel: Rolling Wave Mix.
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