Bio

John Henry Dale is a musician, DJ, drummer and digital media artist based in Miami and New York. He holds a Master’s degree in Digital Composition and Performance from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and composes, performs, and produces music across genres ranging from electronica, jazz, funk, Latin, global bass and ambient, to avant garde and serialist experimental music. John Henry frequently collaborates with other artists and integrates creative technologies both ancient and cutting edge into his music to create multi-sensory performance experiences. He has composed works for film scores such as “The Island President (2012) and recent projects include an algorithmic music composition project using Ableton Live and PGN chess notation and live spatial audio performance focused around the color green. A former Oolite Arts resident artist (2015-2017) specializing in spatial audio and immersive media, John Henry is also the recipient of a 2022 Miami Individual Artist (MIA) grant from Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs to produce “In Viridi Lux” (Latin for “In Green Light”), which is an #ambisonic and #percussive #music experience designed using modal improvisation with notes rooted in the frequency spectrum of green light, that is to say wavelengths between ~540–580 THz. John Henry strives to forge new musical connections between genres in order to create an original sound that evokes the movement and progression of music and technology throughout the history of the world in order to simultaneously evoke feelings of both deep familiarity and genuine mystery in the audience.