PLEASE STAY HOME is a setting of a passive-aggressive note received by my cousin. Because she was a working mom and a police dispatcher, her neighbor took issue with her erratic lifestyle and began to assume the worst. PLEASE STAY HOME explores the parasocial paranoia of the Coronavirus pandemic in the US. Written in April 2020, the piece takes a look at the mounting distrust and isolation that even neighbors experience.

PLEASE STAY HOME is composed for Soprano, Piano, and F Horn and features extended techniques not present in this virtually composed iteration.

PLEASE STAY HOME

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Jet Stream & Arizona Sky was commissioned by the São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival and was premiered by the Unicamp Symphony Orhcestra, Cond. Maestro Christian Schultz in October 2019.

Jet Stream & Arizona Sky

Music made from short field recordings of friends' everyday surroundings. We are all at once surrounding and surrounded, but it can be difficult to discern where our chunk of the sky ends and someone else's begins. Ponder these existential questions and more while sitting back and jiving to this microalbum.

Brennan

Sweeney

An ekphrastic piece based on Edward Hopper's painting, Morning Sun. A warm-up for UNTITLED HOPPER OPERA, a full-length opera project based on the work of Edward and Jo Hopper, currently in development.

Commissioned for the 2020 remote zFestival

Flute: Leah Stevens
Clarinet: Abbegail Atwater
Marimba: Patrick Orenstein
Piano: Jane Kozhenvnikova
Violin: Shannon Reilly
Cello: Julian Gau

Morning Sun

Joshua Brown is an American sound artist and dramaturg split between Louisville, KY and Pittsburgh, PA. His work often explores the innate musics of everyday language and noise, existential dread, and intimacy in the new media age. His music and sound art have been presented at home and abroad at the São Paulo Contemporary Composers Festival, the Charlotte New Music Festival, the International Computer Music Conference, and at the Pittsburgh Opera. As a dramaturg, he has directed and produced contemporary opera festivals and new play workshop series. Joshua holds a BHA in Technical Writing & Music Technology and an AMS in Music Composition from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently a Sound Apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Joshua Brown

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