Sean Ongley

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Videos that I have been featured in but did not produce.

  • 2013 Jazz Festival Interview with Oregon Music News

    2013 Jazz Festival Interview with Oregon Music News

    Interview with OMN about CPJazz Festival 2013.

    Sitting down with Oregon Music News man Tom D’Antoni to discuss the forthcoming and imminent 33rd annual Cathedral Park Jazz Festival. The year is 2013, and we are sitting in KMHD studios.

    I am here 30 years old, but I haven’t aged a bit. Neither has that shirt, which I still wear.

    This interview is me settling into my role as a leader. I started to feel comfortable with that, less and less imitating and more being direct.

    Yet, this was the last year I would run the festival. I succumbed to burnout. Maybe I should have, maybe not. It definitely feels like a mistake in retrospect. Only you can conquer time, but only in the present, so that’s that.

    This was a great festival. I still haven’t written a memoire on the jazz years, but it’s in the bucket list.

  • Forest Mommy Gets Serious About Scientology

    Forest Mommy Gets Serious About Scientology

    I don’t try to make the rounds as a “Scientology survivor” or whatever, it’s really not a huge deal because I wasn’t deep in it. My parents were serious church members and stuff, but we didn’t really get into the inner circle.

    Forest Mommy wanted to interview me about it so I said, of course, because I trust her. It is a great basis for my spiritual story, my narrative. Without it, many things would not be possible. This interview gets into the weird, but we aren’t attacking it. That’s what I want to do.

    Love hanging out with Forest Mommy also.

  • Interview with Oregon Music News on Saving CPJazz

    Interview with Oregon Music News on Saving CPJazz

    Here I am with Mary-Sue Tobin, a celebrated Portland saxophonist, at this time she is my Vice President, I am 29 years old, taking over a festival older than myself with a crew better established in Portland than myself, all of them around age 40 and up.

    This was a dicey decision. I truthfully have never watched this video because it is painful. Not long after this, things got ugly.

    In this video, we are vibrant, excited, full of vision and camaraderie, there is no infighting, and I’m looked upon as a young visionary.

    Ego trips everyone up.

    My InterArts memoire is going to be epic. That experience, from No.Fest in 2008 to CPJazz, by the time I dissolved the project in 2014, the journey had become overwhelming and I retreated home.

    The tale of InterArts is one of community creation, inspiration and perspiration, backstabbing, professional fumbling, wild imagination, creative conquests, and fools errands.

    One thing that I enjoy about this is seeing Lenny Bruce in my mannerisms. I was absolutely obsessed with him around this time, and his style works quite well for my personality. It is especially told in the snapping of my fingers. It’s a beatnik thing that nobody does anymore. It comes across violent in our world of micro-aggressions, while for myself it is exuberant and shows my passion.

    I think I’ll show this to Kitty.

  • Artist Profile of the Dilletantric Duo

    This video is not one that I produced or worked on, rather, I was the subject, alongside my unlikely buddy at the time, Shane. This one compliments my last music post, “The Broken Armed Drummer,” about Shane’s injury before touring with my band Death Worth Living.

    Shane and I played in DWL together, we lived and worked together on this farm, and we played music almost every day in the barn — shared spliffs, watched TV — and I coined the name for us: Dilettantric Duo. See what I did there?

    Adam Keller had a local house venue called Rererato. He therefore knew us and decided that this would be a unique moment to document: The relationship between a heteronormative platonic male couple.

    This is the short film produced by Adam Keller in 2009, simply titled, Artist Profile: Shane Schneider and Sean Ongley.