Play It As It Lays

Tengboche

Growing up in the days of analog in rural downstate New York, media options were limited to three poorly received television channels out of the big city and a local low-wattage AM radio station...that is, until night fell. Suddenly, through an atmospheric adjustment that to this day I fail to fully understand, 50,000 watt super stations (particularly one out of West Virginia) became accessible disrupting my insular small town world in the process. This composition honors those stations and their disruptions.

50000 Watt Nights

"An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths". — Karl Kraus

Half Truths And One - And - A-Half Truths

About 10 years ago, I was introduced to the brilliant choreography of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, the founder and artistic director of the dance troup Rosas, in a performance at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The sheer physicality, directness, and courage of her vision has stuck with me ever since. I had always wanted to honor de Keersmaeker's influence. This piece attempts to do so.
Technical info: "Rosas" is a two-channel fixed media composition organized on ProTools and relying heavily on manipulated environmental sounds ranging from traffic over a bridge to underwater sonar signals.

Rosas

Proposed incidental music for the trip to Jupiter segment should they ever decide to remake "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Cryonics: Deep Space

Scraps From A Solo Trumpet

Cryonics: Dawson City

Cryonics: Ted Williams

Based on an interview with that most quotable of architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Mark Eden