The Opposition Party is a project I cofounded along with Jason Kaulas, Michael Weimann, and Bryan Resendiz, which has grown over the years to include 10 musicians. The Opposition Party delivers vintage afrofunk sounds with energy and fidelity driven by 4 horns, multiple percussionists, and a tight, grooving rhythm section. Acclaimed vocalist Mark Ford leads the show.
Archive for the ‘Sound’ Category
Dancing At The Revolution
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 Sound Sculpture
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.
Bride of Acacias
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 }