Micah Danemayer, eccentric and ‘beautiful,’ was performing at Oakland show before dying in fire

Micah Danemayer had found love, formed an electronica band and discovered his niche in the Oakland art scene before he lost his life while performing.

Danemayer, a Massachusetts native who was 28 and lived in Oakland, had been entertaining guests along with fellow audio and visual artists at the Golden Donna 100% Silk show when the fire broke out at the Ghost Ship warehouse.

“In the words of a friend, he was ‘a wonderful charming eccentric beauty of a young man,’ whose open heart drew many, many other free spirits to him,” his parents said Tuesday through email.

Danemayer, he said, started his own record label called Discarded, through which he would release tapes of the outsider electronic music scene.

Danemayer worked as a curator and producer at Obscura Machina, a collective that runs Discarded and presents a “series of experimental music and video art from the Bay area and abroad,” he explained on his Facebook profile.

[...] friends and families are left with memories — and a legacy that will continue through a scholarship fund that will be set up in his name at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design to help “young artists find their voice.”

“We never thought we’d miss his room piled high with art assemblages, analog electronic gear, and solvents, we never thought we’d miss having a vegan at our meat-eating table, we certainly never thought we’d miss his Rubik’s Cube tattoo,” his parents wrote.