Audio Production
Composed, arranged, and performed this track using ALK2, a new DAW developed in Berlin by ZENAUD.IO
Eric Pan joined me for musical fantasticism.
Audio Production
Played as keyboardist and co-composed music with the band “Bad Marriage”, a band made up of members of Wild Child, Phox, Snowmine, and Sun Nectar. Mixed three tracks for The Wild Honey Pie “On the Mountain” series. ‘
Performance
Toured as music director and keyboardist for Hockey, an NYC-based band formerly signed to Capitol Records and Virgin Records. We toured for 11 weeks throughout the year 2013.
Below is a video we recorded with the Wild Honey Pie for a Buzz Session. ‘
Audio Production
Composed brand theme for About a Worker, a Paris-based fashion brand working to teach factory workers to become designers, expressing their own vision of the fashion industry.
The music has three main components: factory sounds that I recorded onsite at Mode Estime factory which were built into a custom synth patch in Kontakt, a drone constructed with slowed-down and filtered factory sounds, and a classical piano element. The theme is designed to feel like a sewing machine itself, representing the repetitive nature of the needle in the fabric and the parallel repetition of the lives of the workers, who in many parts of the world are overworked and underpaid.
–I did not record the voice over, just composed and recorded the music–
Audio Production
This is a cover / mash up of Son Lux’s “Lost it to Trying” and James Blake’s “Limit to Your Love” released August 2014. Inspired by the lyrics of both songs, combined they convey a message of finding the limit to the love shared between lovers, and failing to overcome said love because of trying too hard. Or maybe it is about cats.
The string quartet was performed by Rebekah Durham, Tomoko Akaboshi, Laura Sacks, and Courtney Kaita. Drums by Dave Scalia, bass Christian Carpenter recorded by Brian Trahan and Harper James at Degraw Sound in Park Slope, Brooklyn. `
Audio Production
Credits: Songwriter, producer, mixing, multi-instrumentalist
This is my current band. The instrumentation is piano, bass, drums, and string quartet, which makes performing a blast. The single, Just an Echo, is available below, along with two of the string quartet scores. ’
Audio Production
Credits: Producer, add’l recording engineer, piano and keyboards, backing vocals, aux percussion
This record was recorded in Washington, D.C. in a basement and at Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty’s personal studio. It was then mixed in four days by the songwriter and me with grammy winning engineer Brian Thorn, and mastered by Joe Lambert (Animal Collective, The National, Deerhunter). It was released to critical praise from Stereogum, Brightest Young Things, and many others in January 2013.
Check out the Stereogum review here:
http://www.stereogum.com/1213822/farewell-republic-lines-stereogum-premiere/mp3s/
Audio Production
Credits: Producer, recording engineer, multi-instrumentalist.
For this record, I wrote and arranged parts for Hannah’s beautiful compositions, which we recorded in the Duderstadt Audio Studio at the University of Michigan and at my home studio in Ann Arbor, MI. Below I’ve included the string quartet score for Away From You. Please enjoy!
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Audio Production
Credits: Songwriter, producer, add’l recording engineer, piano, organ, trumpet, aux percussion, vox.
This was my personal project growing up – Butterfly Assassins was my Chicago-based “Chicago rock” band, which went on multiple midwestern and east coast tours, playing Chicago venues such as House of Blues, Metro, and Shubas Tavern with bands including Hanson, Girl Talk, Company of Thieves, Wax on Radio, Plain White T’s, This is me Smiling, etc. Fuuuu-uuunnn! Learned a ton, worked with amazing engineers at Gravity Studios, Shirk Music and Sound, and United Technique Studios, and mixing engineer Ed Stasium (The Ramones, Mick Jagger, Freddy Mercury).
This project involved a fair amount of arranging for strings, tenor sax, vocals, and trumpet.
For full credits and track listing, check out http://butterflyassassins.bandcamp.com/
Composition
Credits: Composer, live performance (piano, processed vocals, computer).
For this dance project, I composed a 30-minute piece which I performed solo live on piano, processed vocal, and computer using Logic Pro 9 and Ableton Live. The performance took place at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, 2012, on August 22nd.
This piece was a ball of joy – working with Amy Cova and her wonderful dance crew was smooth and magic… it felt like we were constantly in awe of each other. My first assignment for this project was to read the novel “Born to Run” by Christopher McDougall. The book details the lives and customs of a native tribe in Mexico called the Tarahumara, the most shocking of which is an occassional 50-100 mile casual run over and around steep and treacherous mountains, after a night of heavy drinking and dance. The craziest part is that they do that in sandals, and don’t get injured.
The piece is inspired by the effects of running on the mind, the way long runs lull us into a drone-like state of peace and the way stress seems to melt and reform into energy that pulses through the body. The first excerpt occurs right around the 0:14 minute mark, where a trio of dancers are moving in unison. The final excerpt occurs at the end of the piece.
Audio Production
Credits: Recording (live) and mixing engineer, arranger, producer, co-music director, pianist.
With the University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, I had the pleasure of working with talented artistic director Jeffrey Steiger on constructing, arranging, and performing the music for “Institutional Change, The Musical”. The purpose of the musical was to raise questions among provost, faculty, and staff members, as well as students, about how their education system is currently functioning and how it could be improved. The process went something like this:
-Jeffrey would write lyrics and music on his guitar, and sing rough ideas to me.
-Using his songs, we would then negotiate progressions and melodies that conveyed his message and were musically effective.
-Together we would teach the music to the singers and other musicians. (That said, brilliant cellist Courtney Kaita wrote most of her own parts).
-We would take the show on the road, traveling to Alabama, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan to perform for the faculty and staff of various universities.
At every performance, I was amazed at the level of engagement of the audience and the conversations that followed. It really felt like issues were surfacing that had not been previously discussed, and hearing the chair, faculty, and staff all speaking to each other without the hierarchy getting in the way and working things out was always my favorite part.
Quite an incredible experience!!
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/theatre/index.php
Performance
Credits: Piano performance.
This is a sample of me playing classical piano. I play weddings, receptions, and improvise jams, classical/jazz pieces. I also teach private lessons.