Composition Recital 2007, Hvidsten Hall of Music, Christiansen Recital Hall

Composition Recital 2007

Introspection

Recorded backstage during a dress rehearsal of From Bodies and Mouths this Work Arrives at Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater 2013.06.01

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Fantasia from Bodies and Mouths

Our Melting Ice Wine Glass Ensemble performed in reverence to NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) discovery of water on the moon. CalIT 2, University of California San Diego, 2010

Aqueous Luna

Performed by Blair R. Nelson and Recorded at Concordia College Hvidsten Hall of Music, Christiansen Recital Hall, 2005

Event Horizon Meditation

Palindromic D

Performed and recorded for dance theatre at San Diego State University, February 2014.

Pendulum, an oscillation of PALNJ

Composed in real time, elongated. Recorded in San Diego, California. 2014.

Sakura Dew

Based on "Shchedryk" (Bountiful Evening) a Ukrainian New Year's carol arranged by composer and teacher Mykola Leontovych in 1916. 

Piano sample library produced through Ableton from New York based musical artist Brian Funk (aka Afrodjmac), December 2012.

Chant of the Swallow

Performed and composed in real time at Stage 7 San Diego, California, 2013

Music transformed the grief of destructive environments emerging from a heart hugged by sound.

Blair Nelson, Ableton
Kristopher Apple, Violin

Cleaning the Barrel

2011: for a sense of being in a lucid dream, I designed a musical interface with TouchOSC to accessibly play a Pan Drum through Ableton Live 9 sampled by Soniccouture and created a contrasting water on metal soundscape that would awaken a stage production set between two worlds 

Performed and composed in real time for the stage production of The Dybbuk by S. Ansky at UC San Diego 

Blair Nelson, Ableton

Between Two Worlds

Words and music composed for the stage production of When Last We Flew, written by Harrison David Rivers and directed by Colette Robert at Diversionary Theatre, San Diego California, 2012.