Sound design for 'The Dryway' by Emma Zakes Green.

Text: Emma Zakes Green
Voices: A'raelle Flynn Bolden, Emma Zakes Green, Megan Therese Rippey

'The Dryway,' a merfolk opera written and directed by Emma Zakes Green was presented as part of Son of Semele Company Creation Festival 2016.

Loosely based on the ancient myth of Melusine, the half-serpent and/or half-fish woman widely popularized in the late medieval tales of Jean d'Arras, The Dryway tells the story of three mermaid sisters cursed to exile on land by their mother.
Prose, poetry, and original music follow the sisters’ banishment from the ocean to a motel bar in the desert, linking a mythic past with a gritty, humble present.

Credits:

Written and Directed by: Emma Zakes Green
Assistant Directed/Choreographed by: Kestrel Farin Leah
Performed by: A'raelle Flynn Bolden, Emma Zakes Green, Megan Therese Rippey.
Musical Direction: Paul Fraser
Set Design: Drew Foster
Costume Design: Kate Fry
Sound Design: Yiannis Christofides
Lighting Design: Alexander Le Vaillant Freer


Review:

"One of the four pieces incubated at Son of Semele’s Company Creation Festival this year is The Dryway: A Merfolk Opera. On the small blackbox stage, three women speak, enact and sing a tale of a mermaid queen’s three daughters, who are banished from the sea.
(...)
They tell their tale in poetry and song. The spoken words are sometimes choral, sometimes monologs; the songs (backed by varied instruments) are sometimes trios, sometime solos, and often ironic. The complex sound design (by Yiannis Christofides) holds all of this together. Simple, effective choreography (by Kestrel Farin Leah) keeps the story in constant motion, and the spare costumes (Kate Fry) shift easily to mark changes." - Theater Ghost


Mother (2015)

Physical: Sold Out
Digital: shiningskullstudio.bandcamp.com/album/in-summer
Catalog #: GN35
Barro negro cassette, limited to 100

For nearly two decades, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has led an ambitious and exploratory trail through a variety of sounds and genres. As a member of longtime underdogs Tarentel, Cantu-Ledesma broadened the horizons, challenged genre constraints, and pushed the boundaries of the entire post rock genre. Later, Jefre established with several experimental bands (the Alps, Portraits, Moholy-Nagy, etc.) and collaborative projects (Raum, with Grouper). But Jefre has also operated a bit behind the scenes, issuing heady sets of experimental music and film through Root Strata, the label he co-runs with Maxwell August Croy.

As a solo artist, Cantu-Ledesma creates deeply emotional sets of drone, noise, tape collage, and field recordings on the likes of Type, Mexican Summer, Digitalis, Students of Decay, and more. 

Jefre now joins Geographic North with In Summer, a cassette that furthers the nostalgia and melancholy portraits of 'A Year with 13 Moons' (2015 Mexican Summer) and 'Songs of Forgiveness' (2014 BARO) for briefer, yet more potent tape loop meditations. 

"Love's Refrain" opens the cassette by plunging into depths of reeling, Cocteau Twins-esque clouds of guitar and patient drum machine. Riddled with static and glorious, hypnotic tape warble, the song perfectly sets the stage for In Summer's emotional arc. "Little Deer Isle" meditates on a series of field recordings and unbelievable calmness.

"In Summer" exists in a rolling simmer of aural infidelity and physical, circumstantial magic. "Blue Nudes (I-IV)" creates a deep and undulating traipse through various vignettes of hope, love, loss, and admiration, while "Prelude" closes things out with a calm, understated but permeating sense of calm optimism.

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - "Love's Refrain"

Musical selections from the soundtrack of the Adventure Time episode 'Bad Jubies', guest directed by Kirsten Lepore.

See the episode here: http://disasterpeace.com/portfolio

Nature Collagin' - Kirsten Lepore
Beatboxing/Vocalizations - John DiMaggio (Jake the Dog)

In addition, I collected a lot of samples on my own and through friends to create the palette for this episode. Special thanks to the following lovely humans for their sonic contributions to this project: Kirsten Lepore, Dan de Lara, Matthew Powell, Martin Kvale, Liz Ryerson, Jay Tholen, Mark DeNardo, Mateo Lugo, Mathijs Wiermans, Anne la Berge, Dan Cantrell, Dino Lionetti because I sampled his circuit bent keyboard, and Joseph Bourgeouis.

Bad Jubies

please enjoy :~)))

mp3: http://www.mediafire.com/file/cfgnj2fkqn5ftaf/bo_en_sometimes.mp3
wav: http://www.mediafire.com/file/uf77w7t5b4nqane/bo_en_sometimes.wav

on a sunny day, i wake up
and the light drains in
and automatically, i reach out
and i feel the warm weight on my fingers
yellow with the strain, I guess, I let up
kick the rubble on the eightfold
i see myself am i dreaming again cos it feels like

all my life i've been so sure i'm alright

but sometimes i'm lonely
and the only things i care about
fall apart like macaroni
only for today

i let it fall away and come down
let it dress me up
and as it i knew it would, there's no doubt
just a troubadour tied to my mooring
staring at my chains again, they're cut off
but i won't get out
i see myself as a marionette, yeah it feels like

all my life i've been so sure i'm alright
banging my drum, blow the fife, circle the pain all night

but sometimes i'm lonely
and the stupid things i think about
call my name seems like i'm only
waiting for today

you can live your life this way, it's true
while the old folk pray for tomorrow i'm waiting for today

all my life i've been so sure i'm alright

mastered by kurt feldman
violin: fionn duffy
flute: lois clement
clarinet: ben picard
saxes: john moore
trombone: matt huxley

sometimes

Pre-order the new album 'It Is What It Is', released 3 April on Brainfeeder: https://thundercat.lnk.to/it-is-what-it-isSo

'Drunk' Out Now -
Brainfeeder / Stream / Download: https://thundercat.lnk.to/drunkSO

Taken from 'Drunk' released 24th February 2017 via Brainfeeder.

“DRUNK” WORLD TOUR - Tickets: http://brainfeeder.net/thundercat

12 Feb	The Independent - San Francisco, CA - SOLD OUT
13 Feb	The Independent - San Francisco, CA - SOLD OUT
14 Feb	The Independent - San Francisco, CA - SOLD OUT
16 Feb	Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR
17 Feb	Rickshaw Theatre - Vancouver, BC
18 Feb	Wild Buffalo - Bellingham, WA
19 Feb	Barboza - Seattle, WA - SOLD OUT
21 Feb	Urban Lounge - Salt Lake City, UT
22 Feb	Bluebird Theater - Denver, CO
24 Feb	Fine Line Music Cafe - Minneapolis, MN
25 Feb	Concord Music Hall - Chicago, IL
26 Feb	Magic Stick - Detroit, MI
28 Feb	Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON
01 Mar	SAT - Montreal, QC
02 Mar	Paradise - Boston, MA - SOLD OUT
03 Mar	Irving Plaza - New York, NY
04 Mar	Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
05 Mar	U Street Music Hall - Washington, DC - SOLD OUT
07 Mar	Terminal West - Atlanta, GA
08 Mar	Nashville, TN - Exit In
10 Mar	Buku Music + Art Project - New Orleans, LA
11 Mar	Warehouse Live - Houston, TX
12 Mar	Trees - Dallas, TX
16 Mar	Barby Club - Tel Aviv, Israel - SOLD OUT
17 Mar	Babylon - Istanbul, Turkey
18 Mar	Niebo Club - Warsaw, Poland
19 Mar	Yaam - Berlin, Germany
20 Mar	Mojo - Hamburg, Germany
21 Mar	CBE - Cologne, Germany
22 Mar	Thekla - Bristol, UK
23 Mar	Gorilla - Manchester, UK
24 Mar	Invisible Wind Factory - Liverpool, UK
27 Mar	Vicar Street - Dublin, Rep. Of Ireland
28 Mar	Heaven - London, UK
29 Mar	La Cartonnerie - Reims, France
30 Mar	Trabendo - Paris, France
01 Apr	Fri-Son - Fribourg, Switzerland
02 Apr	Theater Moods - Zurich, Switzerland
03 Apr	Atelier Babylon - Bratislava, Slovakia
04 Apr	Porgy & Bess - Vienna, Austria
05 Apr	Lucerna Music Bar - Prague, Czech Republic
07 Apr	Motel Mozaique Festival - Rotterdam, Netherlands
08 Apr	Transition Festival - Utrecht, Netherlands
09 Apr	BRDCST Festival - Brussels, Belgium
15 Apr	Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival - Indio, CA 
22 Apr	Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival - Indio, CA
27 Apr	Liquid Room - Tokyo, Japan 
28 Apr	Blue Note - Nagoya, Japan
29 Apr	Metro - Kyoto, Japan
30 Apr	Conpass - Osaka, Japan

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Drunk

Thundercat - 'Friend Zone'

song made out of chords based on parallel fifths

sheet music:
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/ktnb8fkxl92e4ja/arpeggia.pdf

Arpeggia

The soundtrack to a 2016 short film by Eran Hilleli: https://vimeo.com/190537820

Trumpet - Elizabeth Moroni
Pan Flute - Eran Hilleli

Pilgrim

From the album Music for the Memphis Group

Digital / Cassette out Aug. 4th, 2017

https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/

Matt Wellins - Midtown Manhattan

51720

The title track from my new album 'Soft on Crime'
Out now on Bandcamp:
https://thousandislandla.bandcamp.com/album/soft-on-crime

Soft On Crime

From Cartoon Network's Apple & Onion Season 2

Composed by Paul Fraser(ASCAP) https://paulfrasermusic.com
Mastered by Daniel Eaton at Little Castle Mastering

Apple & Onion S2:E5 The Eater - "The Worm"

Animation composer & songwriter.  
📺 GOLDIE out now on @appletv!
Currently: Warner Bros. 
Previously: CN’s Apple & Onion, etc. 
Profile: Nick Sazani