10/09/25
So proud that Suba Sankaran and I were recognized by the Toronto Theatre Critics Awards for our work on Mahabharata!l Such an honour.
And of course congrats go to the band, cast, designers and company.
Globe and Mail article on the awards.
12/07/25
Sanjay Talwar's beautiful direction gave me the opportunity to create an underscored thriller based on the 1940's movie about a blind woman being victimized and fighting back to criminals on the search for a mysterious doll.
Assistant Daniel Tessy helped through tech to bring this on stage.
30/06/25
Shared with Suba Sankaran, we won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for sound design and music for part one, Karma, of Whynot Theatre's Mahabharata.
Mahabharata was nominated for 18 Dora's and our win was one of 5 we won this year.
24/05/25
Happy to be able to help Guillaume Cote through sound design on his piece, Grand Mirage, at his goodbye performance for the National Ballet. I helped unify his piece through sound design and new music based off a film he used as setup in the work.
23/05/25
Robert Lepage's amazing reimagining of Macbeth at the Stratford festival set in an 80's biker world. Composing and doing sound design for this piece was a career highlight, with numerous challenges and so many opportunities to try some new ideas.
We had 6 electric bikes we rebuilt into stage motorcyles, worked out how mylar mirrors became Faraday cages and had the pleasure of combing djent electric guitar with some baroque influences.
03/04/25
Created music and sound design for Guillaume Coté and Jonathan Young's solo ballet/performance piece for the amazing Sara Mearns at the New York City Centre.
With a couple of trips down for workshops in New York and the East Hamptons we created a 30 minute piece. With electric guitar and strings, the music was edited and produced by David Travers Smith.
18/02/25
Whynot Theatre's Mahabharata started an epic international tour, taking 40+ performers to Banff, Perth, Toronto, Ottawa and ending at the Lincoln Center in New York.
What an honour and privilege to work be able to present this amazing 2 night performance to audiences in such amazing venues.
Jan 20-28 workshops and rehearsals in Banff
Feb 2-16 in Perth, Australia
April 1- 21 at the Bluma Appel in Toronto
May 5 - 25 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
June 17 - 30 at the Lincoln Centre in New York
19/11/24
Live foley and sound design for staged podcast/radio plays!
Such a pleasure to work on two 30 minute radio plays for the National Arts Centre. Working with two separate teams I created live foley and sound design for Cicadas by David Yee and The Woman of 1000 Years by Berni Stapleton. Working with 3 actors and four musicians of the National Arts Centre Orchestra we performed the pieces live and recorded them for podcast. I did the mixing and editing of both of these works and am very happy with the way they turned out.
Both are available for streaming here:
https://nac-cna.ca/en/podcasts/show/irresistible-neighbourhoods?fbclid=IwY2xjawGpzulleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdU9l0vwwTC0pWLFsNAtnJm8_Mq8_KdIXESTREN-ZS8ZyMHbVSvBvj9Gnw_aem_L7RZAIFeMZpLPtq3iTXD6w#podcast-about-section 15/11/24
For their 10th anniversary, Mcmaster's LIVELab remounted a reworked show of ours, Synaptic Rodeo. Created with my partner Julia Aplin, actor/writer Anna Chatterton and media artist Jim Ruxton we reworked this piece with some new tech and director Evalyn Parry. This piece really changed so much about how I think about music and the mind, we researched the predictive mind and the default mode network and created this show that follows what it might be like to lose one's predictive mind.
Its not often that I play live for a show while running mic mutes, EEG to guitar, guitar to laser, motion capture to live sampling and spectral analysis to player piano.
https://livelab.mcmaster.ca/events/livelab-10th-anniversary-double-pendulum-synaptic-rodeo/ 15/09/24
What a privilege to get to be part of this team and production. Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's script was a smart and modern take on an older Chinese classic tale that director Nina Lee-Aquino brought to stage beautifully. It was so interesting learning more of the culture and finding a more modern way to build a world of sound.
At the Shaw Festival and then the National Arts Centre.
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/35941 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.
10/06/24
So fun working with Rouvan and Rafeh Silogix and Modern Times Theatre on this new script based on the writings of Rumi. We worked up in the courtyard of the Aga Khan Museum in a beautiful setting, battling spring rain and weather and triumphantly coming up with a lovely show.
https://www.moderntimesstage.com/the-caged-bird-sings1 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.
10/04/24
We premiered this amazing dance version of Hamlet at the Elgin theatre. Such a privilege to work with producer David Travers Smith and an amazing team of musicians. Peaches, Patricia O'Callaghan, Ernie Tollar, Mark Duggan, Drew Jurecka, Rebekah Wolkstein, Shannon Knights, Amahl Arulanandam, Joe Phillips, Jessi Dietschi and Ben Grossman. Recorded by David Travers Smith at Cantebury Sound.
Amazing choreography by Guillaume Coté, the super creative directing of Robert Lepage and an amazing cast of dancers made this one a total pleasure and honour to work on.
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!
22/11/23
Working with director Herbie Poole and assistant sound designer Jacob Lin along we created a cast performed foley track for the cast of the radio play version of Its a Wonderful Life. I gave a few tips and a quick workshop and the cast picked it up quickly, with everyone chipping in some great additions to the foley world.
18/11/23
Director and producer Craig Pike's Angels In America was a joy to work on, presented at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Great play, great cast and team. The two nights of shows were long and great theatre.
14/07/23
First showing of Guillaume Coté and Robert Lepage's Hamlet, a full length dance version of the Shakespeare I'm writing music for. This version will used samples for the music but this fall we'll record a band of string quintet, electric guitar, harpsichord and percussion for a score that is over an hour and a half. Super exciting and cool version that I'm very proud to be composing on.
Premier in Saint Sauveur 10/07/23
Director Selma Dimitrijevic used a cast of 6 people rotating through 2 parts in this production of one of Shaw's shorter works. Rather than using a fixed score with different people playing each show, I used cues based of groups of variations of ideas, with each cue firing off a random option that included not playing anything. This gave the show a slightly different score to work with the different casting for each show.
13/06/23
Helped implement Michael Laird's design and manage and mix Scott Joplin's opera, Treemonisha, for Volcano Theatre at the Luminato Festival. Its a great piece with a live band onstage that just needed a bit of sonic help to work at the Bluma Appel theatre, a subtle job that helped the audience fully experience the work without getting in the way.
11/06/23
Reworked the original sound design for Jean-Pierre Perreault's 1986 choreography for Citadel + Compagnie for the Luminato Festival. Its a beautiful piece where all the sounds are created by the dancers. I helped design and mix the stage mics to pick up all the footsteps, breaths, vocal sounds and textures that create a fascinating score.
19/05/23
Jim Ruxton and David Bobier's installation used 10 channels of sound exciters to create a wall for 'listeners' to lean into and experience sound as full body vibrations. I created a 3 minute, 10 channel piece, Perception/Preception using low frequency sounds of square waves to play with the change between rhythm and pitch. Leaning into the wall and feeling/experiencing the works for this installation was really exciting.
Haptic Voices
