A Soldier's Tale - for Michael Greyeyes
18/11/13
I’m working on Michael Greyeyes dance/theatre piece, a version based on native American experiences in WWII and the Iraq war. On November 18, The Music Gallery kindly hosted a concert version of the music with a stellar band:
Maryem Tollar - voice and qanuun
Petr Lutek - clarinet
Andrew Downing - cello
Deb Sinha - percussion
David McFarlane of the Star called it ‘among my year’s highlights’.
Maryem Tollar - voice and qanuun
Petr Lutek - clarinet
Andrew Downing - cello
Deb Sinha - percussion
David McFarlane of the Star called it ‘among my year’s highlights’.
Sacrifice Zone
17/11/13
For Theatre Gargantua’s The Sacrifice Zone I pulled out the full one man band routine.
Homemade electric guitar, found metal percussion and bells and footpedal for Qlab. At times I was playing guitar with one hand, percussion with another, kick drum with one foot and Qlab sound effects with another. Good times, as they say. It was a pleasure to play live and remember how much more detailed and quickly it works that way.
Homemade electric guitar, found metal percussion and bells and footpedal for Qlab. At times I was playing guitar with one hand, percussion with another, kick drum with one foot and Qlab sound effects with another. Good times, as they say. It was a pleasure to play live and remember how much more detailed and quickly it works that way.
Tainted
18/09/13
I had the pleasure of working with Vikki Anderson on the powerhouse that is Kat Lanteigne on her self produced work, Tainted. A lovely piece about a family living through the blood scandal here in Canada.
The Flood Thereafter
15/09/13
For Canstage’s Flood Thereafter, a lovely show, we used pickups on the fridge, a piano harp we rescued from our porch an iPhone running prop phone, live mics and lots of sound cues built during rehearsal live.
Prairie Nurse
02/08/13
Had the fun of creating some music that sounded like ’60’s Elvis, with extra ukelele and lap steel for Prairie Nurse out at the lovely Blyth Festival.
Here’s the theme
and a transition
Here’s the theme
and a transition
Jacqueries
12/07/13
Jacob Niedzwiecki’s site specific piece just opened.
It runs on iPhones, with video and sound cued up on an app built by Jacob. The piece is pretty cool, there are 4 streams for the audience to follow through each with a separate audio track and another 7 audio streams with cues for each of the dancers. Figuring out the timings and calls has kept me up for a while, but its really worth it when the piece comes through.
Here’s the music for the protest scene.
The section ended up being cut in the show, but it was really cool working on it. For a section towards the end, 8 bars of material had 7 different click tracks at different polyrythymn’s, 8/16, 10/16, 12/16… with each dancer getting a different click track on their own iPhone track so that they could do the same movement out of phase but still in sync. There are bits where all the rythmn’s play over each other, like the first 4 bars as well as a few quotes of Mini the Moocher thrown in.
It runs on iPhones, with video and sound cued up on an app built by Jacob. The piece is pretty cool, there are 4 streams for the audience to follow through each with a separate audio track and another 7 audio streams with cues for each of the dancers. Figuring out the timings and calls has kept me up for a while, but its really worth it when the piece comes through.
Here’s the music for the protest scene.
The section ended up being cut in the show, but it was really cool working on it. For a section towards the end, 8 bars of material had 7 different click tracks at different polyrythymn’s, 8/16, 10/16, 12/16… with each dancer getting a different click track on their own iPhone track so that they could do the same movement out of phase but still in sync. There are bits where all the rythmn’s play over each other, like the first 4 bars as well as a few quotes of Mini the Moocher thrown in.
Yorkville the Musical
05/07/13
Just finished doing the sound design for Yorkville, the Musical, out at Blyth.
Tom Szczesniak’s music and band with text by Carolyn Hay and directed by Donna Feore.
Its a very fun and smart show, hanging out in Blyth with the cast and crew was a blast as I busied myself taping mics to actors, getting the mix going and making odd doorbell signs.
Tom Szczesniak’s music and band with text by Carolyn Hay and directed by Donna Feore.
Its a very fun and smart show, hanging out in Blyth with the cast and crew was a blast as I busied myself taping mics to actors, getting the mix going and making odd doorbell signs.