Tech, Philanthropy, Composing
Labor Day is usually about picnics and things. I had a two hour meeting with Mike Feldman and Victoria Nece about Seafarer. Victoria does a whole host of things, from web design, motion graphics and print design, to color correction, animation and a spot of wordpress development, though she'd of course be more modest. For …
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A lot of people have been coming finding this site while looking for information about the Anlgo-Saxon poem, The Seafarer. I set the first half of the poem (in Burton Raffel's magical translation) for acting cello, and a film version of the piece is nearing completion. (I swear! color, titles, and we're done. I promise.) …
Pardon the quick post, the plane's about to take off. But I had to post about this. I've been working on the Meet The Composer Studio all year, and while we can't announce much yet, I can tell you we've got some great stuff up our sleeves. Here's the link: http://www.mtcstudio.org/
Well, technically it's still ticking until Saturday evening, but the big news is that Passchendaele made its goal on Kickstarter, as you can see in the widget below. It's been a fun ride, figuring out how to make sure we hit that goal, how to focus some of our marketing. A lot of that marketing …
Thesia Arts, where I'm Collaborating Producer, just launched a Kickstarter campaign for Passchendaele, a play running at this summer's NY International Fringe Festival. There are some great rewards in the project, including tickets to the show and, for the high rollers out there, the chance to be an Executive Producer of the show. Check it …
Greg Jukes made this new recording on my actual birthday last month - June 6. (By the way, that's also D-day and the birthday of Tetris.) The piece, Crystal Tresses in the Sky is a short vibraphone solo he commissioned a couple years back. It's something he can take on the road and perform in …
June 5, the day before my birthday, Mike Feldman and I sat down with Zach Herchen to go over his latest sound design work for Seafarer. It's fantastic. The world of the film was starting to emerge in the last round, but this time he really got into the details, and started to bring mixing …
Today is my birthday, and Greg got me an awesome present. Today he's playing the vibraphone solo I wrote for him, Crystal Tresses in the Sky in Evansville. He commissioned the work a couple years ago, and played a couple times when we were both back at Peabody. He's gotten a bunch better at the …
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Robert Maril is just plain awesome, in case you were wondering. He's stepped in at the last minute to sing my setting of He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven this Saturday. It's a sweet little love song, and even though it's so short it's one of my favorite things I've ever written. The show …
Okay, so this is a bit offtopic, and I'm far too happy about it, but check I'm this week's profiled 'luncher' on Midtown Lunch's downtown site. It's a great resource for anyone working in the neighborhood, by the way. There ain't much to eat down here and finding worthwhile stuff is much easier with them …
I'm very excited to announce that I've recently joined Thesia Arts as a collaborating producer. Thesia's a multi-genre fine art production company, and when I found out about them it seemed like the organization had fallen out of my imagination and into the real world. I've been dreaming for a couple of years about putting …
