11/09/24
So much fun working with director Craig Hall on our third Sherlock for the Shaw Festival. I had a great time scoring this one in a more filmic way, with much more underscoring to support drama based more on characters battling their wits and intelligence in scene work. Damien Atkins was again a great Sherlock. Writing mystery music is so enjoyable, so much you can do and a great chance to go more orchestral than usual in theatre and draw on the themes and music from our two previous productions.
04/06/24
Very excited to be nominated for this year's Louis Applebaum award from the OAC this year. Having had the chance to study briefly with Applebaum at York, this is a true honour. This is the second time I've been nominated!
04/06/24
Super excited to be nominated for sound design for Three Sisters and YPT's Its a Wonderful Life this year at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards.
04/03/24
This show was everything that I like about theatre, a great script, great team and director in Mumbi Tilndyebwa Otu and great designers. It gave me a chance to learn a bit more about a different culture, setting Chekov in Nigeria in the 1960's and a chance to lear a bit more about Nigerian music working with vocal coach Kunle Olorundare. There was some music to write, some sounds to fill out the story and work to help coach the acotrs to play some music for the show. Total pleasure.
https://www.soulpepper.ca/performances/threesisters
04/01/24
During Covid i completed a Masters in Composition up at York and this year am expanding that starting up a PhD in Digital Media.
Over the last few years, inspired by working on Synaptic Rodeo at the LIVELab in McMaster, I've been investigating what the neuroscience model of the Predictive Mind means as a composer and musician. Its very exciting work to me, reframing how I think we hear and create sound in both a simpler framework that allows for more complex and clearer thinking about creation.
Also excited to return to LIVELab this fall to remount Synaptic Rodeo!
