This year's Christmas contemplation...Christmas morning!  There's so much anticipation for it, which is really a deeper anticipation for Christ, who breaks our darkness and brings light. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning!"

Christmas Morn

Here's a little tune dedicated to my mother, and the many others who have shown me the delicate & miraculous power of love. (It's inspired by a passage on Love in the Bible too...Corinthians 13)

Love Is A Bird, jazz song

Denial, 1st movement from Grief Suite for orchestra

"Earth, Water, Air" - ambient, atmospheric, calm

 2021

Ruminations (piano & percussion)

animation demo, in the style of Les Triplettes, with a South Asian twist

"Rencontre" - Amelie et Les Triplettes in South Asia (animation demo)

from a series of cues for the documentary: Bug Sex, It's Complicated CBC's The Nature Of Things (S66, Ep 9 - March 2023)

"Legs Out" (CBC's The Nature of Things Season 64 Ep 9)

from a series of cues for the documentary: Bug Sex, It's Complicated, produced by Andrew Gregg & Deborah Parks and aired on CBC's The Nature Of Things (S 66, Ep 9 - March 2023)

"Sense Of Humour" (CBC's The Nature of Things Season 64 Ep 9)

"Competition" (CBC's The Nature of Things Season 64 Ep 9)

These are a collection of cues from the short doc, Loud & Here, part of Hot Docs 2023 Citizen Minutes Series 2, directed & produced by Josiane Blanc.

LOUD & HERE (Citizen Minutes S2 - Hot Docs) "Intro"

This one co-composed with Bruce Fowler. From a series of cues for the documentary: Bug Sex, It's Complicated, produced by Andrew Gregg & Deborah Parks and aired on CBC's The Nature Of Things (S 66, Ep 9 - March 2023)

"Voyeur" (CBC's The Nature of Things Season 64 Ep 9)

This piece was inspired by the tumultuous life of Canadia-Russian cyber-clerk, Igor Gouzenko and research for a trailer on Gouzenko that I got to score for Toronto filmmaker Geordie Sabbagh.  It chronicles his brave choice to reveal to the Canadian government a Soviet spy ring that spanned Britain, America and Canada, a move which some say began the Cold War. Thanks to the support of the ACWC's first ever Strings Recording Project, which gave me the opportunity to write this piece, under the guidance of composer Ariel Marx,  and then record it with the FAMES Recording Orchestra's 40-piece string orchestra! The sections heard here are as follows: "In the face of death, the choice is made"; "Got to get out"; "First Steps to Freedom"

Gouzenko, for String Orchestra

Here's the score I composed for a trailer called "Out in the Cold" - directed and produced by Toronto filmmaker, Geordie Sabbagh, in 2023.

"Out In The Cold" - Trailer Score

A cue from Words Left Unspoken, directed by Josiane Blanc & produced by Rayne Zukerman, 2023.

WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN doc - "Montreal" (dir. Josiane Blanc)

Birdsong in my Backyard (Fall to Winter)

Here's a little soundtrack to accompany a 1919 silent film clip from a vignette called Feline Follies - featuring Master Tom, soon to become "Felix the Cat"  :) Think black & white, grainy video, two cats  courting, lots of room for sound to tell the story/set the mood and focus the action...

"Feline Follies" cartoon mock up - vintage 1919 silent film (public domain)

Here's a sampling of cues from the documentary "Words Left Unspoken," directed & produced by Josiane Blanc & Rayne Zukerman, 2023. Music by Michelle Lorimer.

WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN - Toronto

WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN - Lebanon

WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN - Intro (To Speak Or Not To Speak)

WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN - Conclusions

WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN - When I Look Back

A sampling of cues from the documentary "Words Left Unspoken," written & directed by Josiane Blanc & produced by Rayne Zukerman, Dominic Desjardins & Josiane Blanc. Screened at ReelWorld 2024. 
Music by Michelle Lorimer.

WORDS LEFT UNSPOKEN - Vintage

HUMBER 50TH 15 Sec (V2) AP 26 - MICHELLE LORIMER

Here's a little number using MIDI orchestra alone - thanks Amin Bhatia for a great SCGC workshop on the nuts & bolts of scoring for orchestra via MIDI.

Pendant un hiver doux

Quick Study In Waltzing - for solo cello, played by Roland Gjernes

This piece is based on a poem by Malcolm Suite, called "Easter Dawn." Performed by Duo Holz (Aysel Taghi-Zada & Michael Murphy.

Michelle Lorimer

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