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Catalog of Compositions(Click
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101
Sound-bite Symphonies - A celebration of short
attention span (2011)Just a few seconds
each, these condensed masterpieces cover the entire human experience,
from religion, love, war, sex, and history to our bodies and belief
systems. Sound-bite symphonies are to regular symphonies what a 1000 mg
vitamin C
pill is to 50 oranges.
Three
dubious memories -
Music for dance (2009)
Choreography by
Paul
Taylor. New York
premiere February 2011, Paul Taylor Dance
Company
Historic recordings of
American presidents' war speeches set to music. This
poignant work takes to task the men in suits who wage wars, from
Woodrow Wilson to Nixon, JFK, and Barak Obama.
A Winnipeg Symphony
Orchestra commision, premiered at the Young People Series by the
composer.
Vocal and stage compositions The biblical story
of the
Garden
of Eden put on its head. In this version based on the Gnostic
Gospels, God is evil, Eve is the
daughter
of Pure Spirit, bestowing life and consciousness on Adam, and the snake
is her wise messanger.
More... A
contemporary opera
about mathematics, derived from the the Fibonacci Series, a number
series that mysteriously shows up evrywhere in Nature.
What happens when the deepest secret of the Universe is uploaded to the
Internet disguised as music? Why is the FBI trying to kill the
mathematician who
discovered it? Why does the goddess Athena, the goddess of wisdom,
decide to descend from Mount Olympus and intervene?
More...
AP news bulletins
culled
from newspapers are treated as poetry in this eclectic song cycle, for
voice and electronic backup.
A selection of the
1991 Montreal International Film Festival's experimental video
showcase, and the Images Video Festival in Toronto. An opera about a
stock broker who becomes obsessed with a
mysterious mentally ill woman who sits every day on a park bench
outside his financial district office. A dark past that connects them
is revealed. The work uses improvised sing-songing by the actors which
is later manipulated, harmonized, and orchestrated.
BACK A CBC
commision premiered at Hart House, University of Toronto, by the
composer.
Commissioned by
choreographer Peter Chin, premiered at Kingston, Jamaica, National
Gallery
Music for film and video
A series of
30 minute
meditative music videos
Music for a
Seasame
Street animated episode
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