This is a live recording of the final movement of my piece Chrysalis for 13-piece large ensemble, commissioned for the 2022 Toronto Jazz Festival. 'let this universe be glad and bloom like the crocus'

Anh Phung - flute
Kae Murphy - trumpet and sousaphone
Nebyu Yohannes - trombone
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - alto sax
Colin Fisher - guitar and tenor sax
Roa Lee - gayageum
Aysel Taghi-Zada - violin
Aline Homzy - violin
Amahl Arulanandam - cello
Adrian Russouw - bass
Racha Moukalled - piano
Stefan Hegerat - drums

Live 2022-07-02

Chrysalis {Crocus}

Kendrick Lamar & J. Cole - Black Friday

All Together Now_Excerpt

I Can Turn This Turtle Into A Ferrari (Zap!)

i had a mouth once

وش علي انا من النَّاس وش على النَّاس منِّي؟

A track I wrote for Humber's Producer in Residence submission. It didn't get picked and it's a little rough around the edges but I thought it's worth sharing! 

Featuring:
Rachel Bobbitt - lead vocals
Jillana Nickel - marimba
Jonathan Wielebnowski - upright bass
Dennis Kwok - all other instruments

Recorded, edited and mixed by Dennis Kwok

Stay

Objects and instruments recorded August to October 2019 using humbucker pickups with very few treatments for slight enhancement (panning, reverb, spring reverb, volume automation, EQ and noise reduction)

Materials used: unplugged electric mandola, various thumb pianos, Slinky and other springs (s/o to Baby Point Hardware, metal CD rack, street sweeper bristles, BBQ skewers (thanks to Dollar Plus), E-Bows.

Humbucker Music VII

I'm taking a course on Microtonal music with Jacob Adler. This was my piece for the week on 5-limit Just Intonation. I was at a loss for how to shape my two-dimensional lattice, so I made it in the shape of a giraffe. It was natural to keep going with this idea.

Here's my surprisingly "tonal" 5-limit toccata dedicated to the pride of the Toronto Zoo, Amani Innis Dagg. This giant baby giraffe has done a lot to get me through the pandemic, simply by being herself. I didn't plan this music, just felt it out in the piano roll view of my DAW, so I'm not sure which intervals I was drawn to.

There are plenty of photos of Amani on Instagram. Here's a cute one: https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGY9A9Bk9t/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

h-Pi Flash synthesizer, with granular haze from Mutable Instruments Clouds module.