Tech, Philanthropy, Composing
Last week saw me stuck sick in bed for a couple days, but also saw two good meetings. The first was with Rose Ginsberg, director and chief brainstorming-buddy for Summer's Twilight. I've finished a significant re-write of the libretto of the first scene, and wanted to bounce it off of Rose before I dug into …
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Eddie Izzard did this British political ad, a party political for the Labour Party. It's good. But the 'making of' video is totally amazing, and they just made it as a side thing to what they were 'officially' doing. It's more convincing, it's funnier, and it's even got the key political slogans. Take a quick …
I've known all the musicians of Rhymes With Opera for years. They're great. They've mounted some really creative productions in really interesting places. Right now they're getting ready for their next show, Book of Gazes, which I'm going to see on May 17 at The Tank in New York. They're also performing in Baltimore on …
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I've just built streaming audio into the site! Now you can actually hear recordings of my music on here - revolutionary, I know. First up is Jason Buckwalter's recording of The Stain of Love, the Williams song cycle he commissioned. It's streaming now here. Pop over, have a listen, and let me know how you …
I work with Michael Feldman a lot, and I think he's great. Today he launched a new website for his production company, Evident Films. Check it out - he's got some very cool projects, including some we're working on together.
I don't know what it is about live performances, but I always get ideas in concerts or plays. Something about seeing other artists working live always sends my mind straight to whatever project I'm working on. Last week I saw Sondre Lerche and Scott Alexander live, and I came out with two good ideas about …
Zach Herchen's come back with a first crack at the sound design for the film version of The Seafarer. The director, Mike Feldman, and I are very, very pleased. Listening to the cut a couple times, I'm faced with the reality that I have very little background in how to judge and how to improve sound …
This has been a busy, busy week. Last Thursday, the film version of The Seafarer screened at a Thesia Arts event. The film, not quite finished, was very well received. It was screened in the company of about a half dozen other films, including experimental mixed media animation, a pop music video, a rather elaborate …
Just a reminder for everyone - next Wednesday (March 3rd, 2010, 10 PM) Zach Herchen is going to play a bunch of awesome new pieces for saxophone at The Stone. Among them is the piece I wrote for Zach, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, which sets the poem of the same name. He's going …
Surprise! Thesia Arts will be screening a nearly-finished version of The Seafarer tomorrow night! The event is a fundraiser with screenings of several new short films by up-and-coming filmmakers, a happy hour, etc. This will be the first public viewing for the piece, so if you want to see how we've translated this bit of …
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After all my work on film I'm finally doing some scoring. I've dome film adaptations of my work as a director and producer, and I've done producing and fundraising work on other people's films, but I haven't done any film scoring proper. Alan Jeffries helped out with the Summer's Twilight reading in December, and again …
Yesterday, instead of watching the super bowl at a party, I spent most of the day helping shoot a documentary about Thornton Willis. Mike Feldman, my longtime collaborator, is the driving force behind the movie, and I was working as a producer. In this case that means I made sure nothing broke and did the …
