This composition is a commentary on unanticipated ecological impacts that occur due to technological advances. It was featured on the Radio Art Compilation - Deep Wireless 6.

...and Along Came the Railroad

The amalgamation of the 3 tracks I composed with the band Eunoia. The lyrics are all drawn from a single poem.

STWCTBGOTS

Seeking That Which Creates the Bubbles Gurgling on the Surface

A composition written for a 14 piece horn ensemble augmented by a pair of percussionists. Is it slipping off the perch of a pillar or summering into autumn?

Leaning Into Fall

From the unfinished musical that I scored called "The Heart of New York." This is an excerpt from the musical's overture composed for an 18 piece big band. It was performed at the Jazz Cellar in Vancouver. The vocals were overdubbed at a later date.

The Heart of New York

Can't See Me

The content from this track is drawn from field recordings I made of birds in Australia and a hurricane in North Carolina during travels in 2015.

Audio Travelogue 2015

A song I wrote in the summer of 2016. It's long but it shifts the right ways at the right times. 
Evan Catalano: Drums
Dan Simmons: Trumpet
Cameron Catalano: Guitars/Vocals

Dominoes

Composed and recorded after swimming in the Pacific in February during a snowfall. 
Dan Simmons: Drums/Trumpet
Cameron Catalano: Wurlitzer/Bass/Mixing/Field Recording

Swimming In A Snowfall

Risky Escape

Orchestral

Summer Day

Confident

Meditative 1

Mysterious

Foreboding Mystery

ele acou musings

Textbook Concerto

Sifting Thru Consciousness
Shifting shape like wind to dunes
In a desert storm

Death triggers dimensional shift
Soular existence sinks in
To see to hear but
Not to touch or feel

Floating observer
Objective 
numb 
invisible 
Seeking urgently
escalating urgency
To be          
reborn

Breathe air

To Reincarnate

Breathe air

Settle beyond time and space
Here and everywhere
All at once
All at once

Every point thru history 
and the depths of the 
Galaxy
To the sun

Sputtering out

The first day 
Dinosaurs
Atlantis to the sun
Sputtering
Whimpering out

Forever 
Everywhere
All at once

Breathe air

Urgently 
Desperate lungs filled to 
Capacity 

Magically animate 
Being 
Breathing
Seeing blurry
Hearing words!

Begin again starting with this 
Infancy
Breathing
Feeling
Air

Soular Exchange

First in the series of collages of tracks recorded by Lucas Mercer and Cameron Catalano.

Long Exposure I - Complimentary Shadows

A little ditty in Gm to see if I could play clarinet after having not blown thru one for decades. 

lyrics:
Tapping out rhythms betwix rhymes
Between the lines the meanings shine
Among the groves of monotony
Find pockets of crass spontaneity

Recalling a spot only you can describe
To small town rookie
Past the wild west divide

Small Town Rookie

On the right side of the wrong

The frail gin soaked poet
Wading out with rocks in his pockets
Destination: ocean floor
Can't stand breathing no more

Ted said when Syl died
'That's the end of my life
The rest is posthumous'

Salt water seeping down his throat
The floating Shell station's 'S' burns out
Seeing his hell on Earth
Knowing it could get no worse

Emptying his pockets
Drifting towards the surface
Into shore
On his back

On the right side of the wrong

Right Side Of The Wrong

Composed in Thailand at the Santisook resort as pictured. It was composed for Piano, Cello and Flute. This explores modulation thru the harmonic series.

Idioglassia

Composed for Vibraphone, Snare Drum Flute, Piano, Clarinet, Viola and Cello. This was my first extended exploration in the harmonic series.

E Harmonic Series

All Colours Compliment in the Dark

Written for Piano, Cello and Flute. Like the title, the musical form is phonetically symmetrical, but not on the surface. It starts with one note, then adds an additional one into the mix every 8 bars until all 12 notes are utilized. In the minimalist 2nd half, each note is released from the set in the order it entered.

Door Rude

Music by Cameron Catalano
Text by Winston Le

Composed for the 2019 Art Song Lab in Vancouver BC.

evolutionary linguistics

I spent about 6 months composing music for a musical that was never to be. The librettist could never finish it, but we worked up about 30 songs for it. I arranged my 4 favourites into an overture for an 18 piece jazz band. This is a performance by the Mackenzie Jones Big Band at Vancouver's Jazz Cellar.

The Heart Of New York Overture

Cameron Catalano is a multi instrumentalist composer. He consistently dabbles in four corners of music: folk, rock, classical and soundscapes. Over the past decade he's had over a dozen compositions performed by some of the best musicians Vancouver has to offer in venues such as the Orpheum Annex, Pyatt Hall, and the Jazz Cellar. In 2017 he has composed the score to a pair of full length films in 2017. 
He is currently the President of Vancouver Pro Musica, an organization that produces concerts, workshops and reading session to provide opportunity for BC composers to get their works performed.
He worked as a recording engineer for 4 years upon graduating from SFU and produced hundreds of songs by a broad array of Canadian musicians. 
With Lucas Mercer and Dan Simmons, he performs on a weekly basis improvising the soundtrack to Sin Peaks weekly comedy series at the Red Gate Theatre on Granville Island.

Cameron Catalano

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