Name: in Just- by Michael Denis Ó Callaghan
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Description: Three pieces I wrote for my Composition class at the Juilliard Evening Division this past semester.

My first real attempt with Ableton Live! Hope you enjoy :)

Afterglow

Live recording of Michael Gordon's Van Gogh with the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Recorded at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in July 2015, recording courtesy of Mass MoCA.

Michael Gordon: Van Gogh - The Hague, Part 1 live with Bang on A Can All-Stars

Recorded by WNYC's New Sounds Live at SONiC Festival 2015. Mechanical instruments by Nick Yulman. http://www.wnyc.org/story/new-sounds-live-concerts-2015-part-1/

Me he perdido (performed by the American Composers Orchestra)

Three pieces I wrote for my Composition class at the Juilliard Evening Division this past semester.

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a couple of new songs from my senior recital last week!

Love You More (live)

Huge thank you to Kevin Michael Holzman and the CCM Wind Symphony for giving this piece life!

On a surface level, this piece draws on my experiences basking in the resonance of grand halls, the refraction of light through stained glass windows projecting onto stone, and the serene state of mind such an array of warm colors and soft shadows put me in. On a more personal level, this work is a response to my time in Cincinnati. Many of my hours here were spent on long drives through its rolling hills following the unending flow of the river, searching for vistas with breathtaking views across the state border or trying to find new perspectives of the cityscape enveloped by fog. The culture of this place and its people has impacted me both as an artist and as a person. It’s difficult for me to put emotions like that into words, so I’ve chosen to put it into music. Throughout the work are various quotes from my colleagues at CCM and from several of my heroes; all interwoven with my own musical language to convey a heartfelt message of “thank you”.

CCM: Readings & Concerts

Visions of Painted Glass (2019)

Commissioned and composed for the 2019 Art Song Collaborative Project's "Cries of the Earth"

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If any place should be unspoiled
It is here
Why won’t they listen?

Eighty-thousand tons
Plastic soup
Eighty thousand tons
One-point-six million kilometers
Growing closer
One-point-six million kilometers

Million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million million kilometers

Plastic bags
Children’s toys
Eel trap cones
Tooth Brushes
Lighters
Fishing nets
Crates
Oyster spacers
Bottles
And bottle caps

Plastic soup
Growing closer

When the rain comes down
On tomorrow’s brave new world
You’ll put on your plastic rain coat

Plastic soup
Growing closer
It will consume us

When the rain comes down
On tomorrow’s brave new world
You’ll put on your plastic rain coat

Cries of the Earth

Consume Us (from Cries of the Earth)

M O V E is a two-movement work for cello quartet that focuses on how the individual movements of each performer add to create the whole. Conceptually, it plays with the idea of how people form, deform, and form back within their stages of life.

M O V E By Vicki Leona

Fleet Foxes: Wading in Waist-High Water

Yaz Lancaster, main vox + violins + production
Andrew Noseworthy, guitar + backing vox
Connie Li, additional violin + backing vox
Gramm Drennen, cello
Michael Ó Callaghan, trumpets
Kyle Brenn, drum set

premiered 15 January 2021 (virtually) @ the music gallery's emergents II

Wading in Waist-High Water (Fleet Foxes cover)

A piece based on the poem "The Sea and the Man" by Anna Swir for two marimbas. Performed by Heartland Marimba for their inaugural Online Composers' Festival!

The Sea and the Man

Composer, trumpeter, vocalist, educator working in Connecticut. 
M.M. Music Composition from NYU w/ Michael Gordon and Caroline Shaw.

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Michael Denis Ó Callaghan

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