Mayne Stage. Musical Performance. Chicago, 2011
This was a gorgeous evening of dance and music, part of the 2011 Chicago World Music Festival. I played keyboards for the 3-part musical suite musically directed by Carlo Basile of Las Guitarras de Espana. The piece featured movement and sound from the worlds of modern jazz & dance, flamenco, and Indian and African contributions from the evening’s previous ensembles.
EP Theathre. Original music production / Sound design. Chicago, 2008.
For this highly stylized theatrical retelling of the life of rabble-rouser Emma Goldman, I wrote music that updated the period socialist-songbook style with some modern sounds and improvisational elements. Here are the overture and the curtain music, two of my favorite pieces from the show.
Mt. Greenwood Park. Performance, Audio Co-Production. Chicago, 2008.
This piece was a lot of fun – a performance to inaugurate Chicago Sculpture Works’ piece, Sound Sculpture. The inauguration of the new park and the sculpture itself was capped by a performance by myself, Jacob Worley-Hood, and some percussionists from around Chicago.
Jacob and I co-produced the audio recording for the event, which is the audio track for the video clip below. The performance was a structured improvisation created by the performers in the days before the inauguration.
Chopin Theatre. Design / Video / Sound. Chicago, 2006
A whilrwind of a one-woman play, this biographic piece traveled around Iran and to Europe and back, following the life of legendary Iranian film-maker Forough Farrokhzad.
Working with source video brought from Iran by the playwright and my own thematic motion graphics, the designer and I came up with a model that would work both as a scenic backdrop and as a metaphor for a woman who often looked at the world through the barriers of her identity.
{ photos by gretchen werner }
