Just a new piece I've been working on. It will be premiered next month, I believe.

Amusement Mile  The Dreams and Prayers of Coney Island

This piece was composed to give the impression, as the title would imply, of a suite drawn from music for a nonexistent video game or film. I had quite an elaborate, dream-like (or maybe nightmare-like), and ever-changing “storyboard” in my head as I composed it. Ever-changing because I would adapt the scenario to fit the music I wished to compose. Though it may not be apparent at first, much of the music is drawn from a reharmonization I made for “Hush Little Baby” which appears very briefly in the music. It was also influenced by the video games I was playing at the time: “Dead Space” and “Bioshock.” Anyone familiar with these two games will undoubtedly hear echos of those soundscapes.

The piece is performed as three continuous movements. These are titled:
I. Welcome to Utopia
II. Conversation with the Darkness
III. Cry of the Hunters


Suite from an Imaginary Score for an Underwater Sci-Fi Zombie Lord of the Flies

This recording is an amalgam of two separate performances.  The first and forth movements are performed by the the Dynamic Motion String Quartet. The third movement is performed by  the PUBLIQuartet.

The movements are:
I. Elegy: Angosciato
III. Purgatorio: Spettrale e agitato
IV. Canon: Adagio misterioso

I am currently composing a new second movement. The Purgatorio used to be the second.


Moo Thunder