Post:Ballet has commissioned me to score their new work this season, titled “When in Doubt”. It premieres this weekend, July 20-21, at the Herbst Theatre.
The SF Chronicle has generously done an interview and write-up of our piece in advance of its world premiere, and the California Literary Review also has a nice interview with Choreographer Robert Dekkers.
Here’s a sneak peek of the score for you:
And here’s a sample of past work we’ve done together:
I’ll be composing the original score to another short film starting next week. This’ll be my third, and my second with director Robert Dekkers. More to come later!
Still Around, the HIV Story Project’s compilation featuring my short film “Ours” with Robert Dekkers, just won the Crystal Cactus Award for Best Feature Documentary, at the Out in the Desertfilm festival. Congratulations to all the cast and crew for the beautiful film we all made together!
The first short film I scored, Ours is playing this Thursday, 12/01/11, at the Roxie Theater in SF @ 7pm, as part of Still Around. A number of the other filmmakers will also be there, if you’d like to join us!! Since the last time it played here in SF, it has screened in Prague, Czech Republic; Seattle; Milwaukee; and Bern, Switzerland. It’s playing tonight in Hamburg, and has upcoming screenings in South Africa, LA, Chicago, and many other places.
The more recent film, Bug Chaser, recently screened at the Dark Carnival Film Festival in Bloomington, IN, and I’m excited for more (and local) dates to start being announced.
I also recently recorded an album playing lead guitar on the amazing Tawnee Kendall‘s upcoming debut album. We’ll be playing our first show together at the Rockit Room on Saturday, Dec 17th, at 8pm as The Hangover Brigade. Come see us, and hear how awesomely we rock.
A sneak peek of my new collaboration with Post:Ballet will be showing this Friday at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, 5-9pm. I’ve crafted a really neat soundscape for this piece, and am excited to debut it – see you there!
Last year, I scored a short film for the HIV Story Project’s film “Still Around”, and I just found out it’ll be having its West Coast Premiere at Frameline35 in June! I’ll be there with the cast & crew to celebrate its release, please join me!
Still Around
@ the Castro Theatre, for the Frameline film festival
429 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA 94114
Friday, June 24, 2011, 1:15pm
http://www.frameline.org/
A recent review of its World Premiere in Boston described it, saying “The best films in this outstanding anthology give us … [t]he drama, dangers, and enrichment of finding out who you are–and laying claim to it–without letting labels get in the way.”
So I recently performed the music for a ballet in San Francisco. The company was Post:Ballet, the piece was called “The Happiness of Pursuit”, and we performed the show two nights at the Cowell Theater. As usual, I was joined by my partner in crime, Joe Hickey, and this actually counts as my first show I’ve ever played on electric guitar… I feel like I’m breaking the law with that. =^b We got good reviews in the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Speaking of Dance. We even got a nice mention on ABC7News. You can view a highlight reel here:
I also recently scored a short film for the HIV Story Project film compilation entitled “Still Around”. I don’t know how long it’ll be before the film is available for viewing online, but it’ll be making its way around film festivals within a few months, I gather.
Both of these things have got my creativity flowing, and I’m trying to crank out some new material while I’m on a roll. Woot.
Well, not that I’m dancing, but I’ll still be on stage. I’m collaborating with Robert Dekkers and his company “Post:Ballet” on a world premiere at Fort Mason’s Cowell Theater. I’ll be performing original music live both nights.
Post:Ballet “Concert One”
Fort Mason’s Cowell Theater
8pm – Fri & Sat, July 16 & 17, 2010
99 Marina Blvd, SF, CA, 94123
$20 in advance, $25 at the door