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Bio in brief CPI aka Caitlyn lives in Ottawa Canada. She has been DJing and making noises since the last century. She is known for her uniquely eccentric mixes that sound like none other, and which are assembled with the utmost care and detail. Starting with spinning drone ambient and noise, she expanded her repertoire in to abstract hiphop, downtempo, IDM and electro. She has been promoting her own undergound Divergence dance parties since 2004. In 2006 she started a monthly movie series called Divergence Movie Night. Near the end of 2007, she began hosting an MP3 blog as well. Caitlyn has won numerous awards for her community and activism work, and has received many accolades from people that are really high and enjoy her mixes. On that note, she also is a veteran of the Harm Reduction scene. bookings CPI plays many types of parties. From afterhours dance clubs, to vernisage art openings, to blissed out chillrooms, to breakdance battles, to fields of drone ambience, to drunken 80s&90s retro jams, to punk rock weddings, to background dinner music, to dingy warehouse sex parties and everything else in between. Her rates always depend on the party. She loves collaborating with painters and often trades performances for artistic works. She also works with dancers, video editors, acrobats and more. She travels off to various cities to play gigs, and will go anywhere provided a plane ticket is include in the offer. Projects CPI has worked on: National Radio comission for Brave New Waves on CBC Radio 3 Music for contemporary dance Fashion show exhibition (arranged to highlight each outfit/walk) Breakdance practice for Decypher Cru In-store music for Venus Envy (sexual health store) Special gigs CPI has done: AGMs (Elizabeth Fry Society, PSAC) Weddings of all sorts Art gallery openings beats for slam poetry exhibitions Univerity proms (especially gay ones) Closing parties for academic and activist conferences Hippy festivals deep in the woods Soon: more music for contemporary dance Soundtrack for dramatic puppet shows - music for circus routines press Nov 2008 - DharmaArts.ca: Periodic Purgings Of A Music Packrat Apr 2008 - The Fulcrum: CPI mixes up Ottawa’s nightlife Feb 2007 - CPI post at Aurgasm photos Hi-Res photos for publications: Photos by Tina Hassannia Photo by Donald Kwan Low-Res photos for fun: - - (artistic renditions of what caitlyn might look like) networking CPI on Last.FM CPI on facebook CPI on myspace CPI on discogs.com Divergence Movie Night, Ottawa Edition on facebook theta states "Theta rhythms are one of several characteristic electroencephalogram waveforms associated with various sleep and wakefulness states. When seen in this fashion, they are between 4 and 8 Hz, and involve many neurons firing synchronously, probably in the hippocampus and through the cortex. Theta rhythms are observed during some sleep states, and in states of quiet focus, for example meditation (e.g. Aftanas & Golosheykin, 2005)" ...as quoted from wikipedia. Theta states are often observed in that special period of sleep when one wakes up momentarily and falls back in to sleep and lucid dreaming. That's where my magic happens. jot notes Caitlyn often plays art galas, and is always interested in collaborating and bartering with visual artists. Most DJs are boring. Anyone can be a DJ. The most intimate place a DJ can reach someone is between their headphones. CPI enjoys Allen & Heath mixers and Tehcnics 1200 turntables. She is humbled by the prescence of people that can actually play instruments. In most of these mixes, the second half is designed first and is often the best part. CPI is an acronym for... This site's old guestbook. I like art that reminds me of my death, and of the moment.
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Bio

in brief

CPI aka Caitlyn lives in Ottawa Canada. She has been DJing and making noises since the last century.
She is known for her uniquely eccentric mixes that sound like none other, and which are assembled with the utmost care and detail.
Starting with spinning drone ambient and noise, she expanded her repertoire in to abstract hiphop, downtempo, IDM and electro.
She has been promoting her own undergound Divergence dance parties since 2004. In 2006 she started a monthly movie series called Divergence Movie Night. Near the end of 2007, she began hosting an MP3 blog as well.
Caitlyn has won numerous awards for her community and activism work, and has received many accolades from people that are really high and enjoy her mixes. On that note, she also is a veteran of the Harm Reduction scene.

bookings

CPI plays many types of parties. From afterhours dance clubs, to vernisage art openings, to blissed out chillrooms, to breakdance battles, to fields of drone ambience, to drunken 80s&90s retro jams, to punk rock weddings, to background dinner music, to dingy warehouse sex parties and everything else in between.
Her rates always depend on the party. She loves collaborating with painters and often trades performances for artistic works. She also works with dancers, video editors, acrobats and more.
She travels off to various cities to play gigs, and will go anywhere provided a plane ticket is include in the offer.

Projects CPI has worked on:

National Radio comission for Brave New Waves on CBC Radio 3
Music for contemporary dance
Fashion show exhibition (arranged to highlight each outfit/walk)
Breakdance practice for Decypher Cru
In-store music for Venus Envy (sexual health store)

Special gigs CPI has done:

AGMs (Elizabeth Fry Society, PSAC)
Weddings of all sorts
Art gallery openings
beats for slam poetry exhibitions
Univerity proms (especially gay ones)
Closing parties for academic and activist conferences
Hippy festivals deep in the woods

Soon:

more music for contemporary dance
Soundtrack for dramatic puppet shows
- music for circus routines

press

Nov 2008 - DharmaArts.ca: Periodic Purgings Of A Music Packrat
Apr 2008 - The Fulcrum: CPI mixes up Ottawa’s nightlife
Feb 2007 - CPI post at Aurgasm

photos

Hi-Res photos for publications:

Photos by Tina Hassannia

Photo by Donald Kwan

Low-Res photos for fun:

(artistic renditions of what caitlyn might look like)

networking

CPI on Last.FM
CPI on facebook
CPI on myspace
CPI on discogs.com
Divergence Movie Night, Ottawa Edition on facebook

theta states

"Theta rhythms are one of several characteristic electroencephalogram waveforms associated with various sleep and wakefulness states. When seen in this fashion, they are between 4 and 8 Hz, and involve many neurons firing synchronously, probably in the hippocampus and through the cortex. Theta rhythms are observed during some sleep states, and in states of quiet focus, for example meditation (e.g. Aftanas & Golosheykin, 2005)"
...as quoted from wikipedia.
Theta states are often observed in that special period of sleep when one wakes up momentarily and falls back in to sleep and lucid dreaming. That's where my magic happens.

jot notes

Caitlyn often plays art galas, and is always interested in collaborating and bartering with visual artists.
Most DJs are boring. Anyone can be a DJ.
The most intimate place a DJ can reach someone is between their headphones.
CPI enjoys Allen & Heath mixers and Tehcnics 1200 turntables.
She is humbled by the prescence of people that can actually play instruments.
In most of these mixes, the second half is designed first and is often the best part.
CPI is an acronym for...
This site's old guestbook.

I like art that reminds me of my death, and of the moment.

E-mail CPI