60x60 Performance at the International Computer Music Conference
4.30.2010
My short electronic composition Plasticity of Time is being performed as part of the 360 Degrees of 60x60 series, beginning next week.
From the 60x60 website:
This version of 60x60 is called 360 degrees of 60x60 concert is sponsored in part by the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) – www.computermusic.org. The works included in the mix were created specifically for the 2010 ICMC RED Edition (International Computer Music Conference) presented by Stony Brook University in New York City and Stony Brook. Six 60x60 mixes featuring 360 pieces from different composers throughout the world will presented during the conference and at remote concerts around the globe.
The 6 different mixes are all named a different shade of red to honor the RED edition of ICMC: 60x60 Burgundy mix, Crimson mix, Magenta mix, Sanguine mix, Scarlet mix, and Vermilion mix. Each mix is one hour long and contains different composers totaling to 360 different works each by different composers from many different countries around the world.
Where We Live Screening at USC
4.30.2010
I’ve had the great privilege of working with skilled director Fady Hadid on his documentary film, Where We Live, about the plight of Iraqi refugees settling in the United States. The film follows one family as they adjust to their new life in California and recounts the tragic events leading up to their flight from Baghdad.
Friday, May 7 at 7:30pm
at Norris Cinema Theatre, USC
Except for the Only screening with Sonic Boom
4.30.2010
Director Aaron Auerbach's fantastic experimental film, Except for the Only, will be screening at the California Institute of the Arts as part of Immortal Metal, an evening of works performed by CalArts' experimental rock group Sonic Boom. Under the direction of Ulrich Krieger, Sonic Boom will have the difficult task of realizing a live version of the musical score I composed for Aaron's film, which originally consists of ambient textures and heavily processed acoustic sounds.
Monday, May 3 at 8:00pm
at R.O.D. Concert Hall, California Institute of the Arts
free admission
24700 McBean Pkwy., Valencia, CA
The ASTO Museum of Art presents - Eccentricities: Original Works By Robert Allaire and Natalie Metzger
4.21.2010
The ASTO museum of Art Event Series is sponsoring an evening concert of work by composer Robert Allaire and choreographer Natalie Metzger.
Saturday, May 1 at 7:30pm
at The ASTO Museum of Art
Cost: $7 at the door
4505 Huntington Dr. South, Los Angeles
Enjoy an evening of new, original works exploring the intersection of contemporary music and dance. Repeat collaborators Robert and Natalie have joined forces again to engulf you into a dark world where insanity entangles, sex detaches, and God judges.
The California E.A.R. Unit with Sonic Boom: Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music
4.12.2010
I'm very excited to be joining the California E.A.R. Unit as an accordionist in a performance of Ulrich Krieger's transcription of Lou Reed's guitar feedback epic, Metal Machine Music. The first performance will be Tuesday, April 20 at REDCAT (housed in downtown Los Angeles's Disney Concert Hall), with a follow up performance Wednesday, April 21 at UC Irvine.
From the REDCAT website:
Ulrich Krieger’s latest electroacoustic version of Lou Reed’s audacious 1975 double-LP guitar feedback epic is the occasion for this expertly rendered hour-plus of clangorous mayhem from the California E.A.R. Unit and Krieger’s Sonic Boom outfit. First transcribed and arranged for chamber orchestra in 2002, Krieger’s score has as one of its biggest fans none other than Reed himself—so much so that the iconic rocker joined in with the German avant-garde ensemble Zeitkratzer for the work’s world premiere. The new adaptation of Metal Machine Music, part of an ongoing project by Krieger, seizes on the complex orchestral scope of Reed’s original, its modal use of pitch and rhythm, its bold yet intricate colors, and its sheer freewheeling, hard-rocking gutsiness—with the virtuoso players of the E.A.R. Unit and Sonic Boom coaxing from their instruments the improbable deep noise that Rolling Stone once called “the tubular groaning of a galactic refrigerator.”
8 Track Mind Nominated for best Music Game App 2009
1.5.2010
8 Track Mind is one of 10 nominees for best music game 2009.
http://bestappever.com/awards/2009/
Love Songs of a Third Grade Teacher Premiere
1.4.2010
The romantic comedy feature I composed additional music for is screening January 16th at the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles. Love Songs of a Third Grade Teacher is the true story of school teacher and punk rock singer Sabrina Stevenson. Directed by Michaela von Schweinitz.
8 Track Mind headed for the App Store
11.18.2009
8 Track Mind is headed for the Apple app store! Check it out soon! You can also become a fan on facebook.
From the Improbable Sciences website:
8 Track Mind is a unique puzzle game and an interactive musical composition available exclusively for iPhone and iPod touch. It's not a rhythm game, or a Simon Says game, it's much more. Part mind-bending puzzle and part interactive music box, 8 Track Mind challenges your ears with slick beats and cool original tunes. There are over 160 tracks of original music. Play them. Mix them. Match them. Listen to the music at the beginning of each level, then mix and match the tracks to recreate what you heard to solve the musical puzzle. Or just groove away by combining the tracks into your own mix.
GhostCom showing at the Santa Clarita Street Art Festival
10.01.2009
GhostCom, the interactive sound installation I collaborated on with the SoundGamePublicSpace workshop at CalArts will be shown for the weekend at the Santa Clarita Street Art Festival. GhostCom is an audio scavenger hunt that uses custom built, arduino-based technology to guide participants in an exploration of a specific location. Each participant gets a small black box with headphones that plays audio clues that lead to various locations within a space. The partipant follows the clues to find a small RFID tag which can then be scanned with the black box, which will then provide clues to find the next tag. My credits on the project include writer, composer, sound designer, and voice actor.
Sonic Boom to perform Except for the Only
09.03.2009
The CalArts ensemble, Sonic Boom, is slated to perform a live version of the score I wrote to Aaron Auerbach's fantastic film, Except for the Only. The showing of the film with live score will most likely happen in spring of 2010. Stay tuned!
A Werewolf Film featured in Animation Magazine
08.23.2009
Animation Magazine's September issue calls my score for Noel Belknap's A Werewolf Movie "perfect!"
Bianca Gisselle's Shades of a Year released
08.01.2009
I wrote string parts for a couple tracks on Bianca Gisselle's debut album Shades of a Year which is now available online!
8 Track Mind - a music based iPhone game
07.01.2009
I'm very excited to be teaming up with iPhone developer Kris Harris and Improbable Sciences to develop and release a music based game for the iPhone, 8 Track Mind.
One thing that is so special about this game is that it really is an interactive musical application, allowing the player to make compositional decisions and create music. The game is essentially music you play like a game.