January 16th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
I made some music for this trailer for an exciting new film by Peter Cohn. My music starts at about 1:00 and reappears at 3:15.
“Holy Land” is intended to be a non-partisan film about the current situation in the West Bank. As you can see in the trailer, Peter has already filmed some stunning footage of events there, as well as interviewed some pretty intense individuals. More information is available here.
November 18th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
I’ll be in Germany and Switzerland in early December to record and perform with Ingrid Laubrock’s new UK/USA-based octet at the legendary SWR New Jazz Meeting… the band is:
Ingrid Laubrock – saxophone
Mary Halvorson – guitar
Tom Arthurs – trumpet
Ted Reichman -accordion
Liam Noble – piano
Ben Davis – cello
Drew Gress – bass
Tom Rainey – drums
we’re also playing gigs in Niederstetten, Karlsruhe and Zurich…. should be pretty good….
September 19th, 2011 at 4:40 pm
Some of my music is used in this extremely beautiful short film by Karen Bellone and Lisa Rinzler:
This is a preview for an art installation that will premiere in LA on Sunday, September 25, 2011. More information is available here.
July 6th, 2011 at 12:57 am
DEAR MANDELA, an excellent documentary feature by Christopher Nizza and Dara Kell, will premiere at the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa on July 26. I had the honor and pleasure of writing the score for this film. I met Chris and Dara at the Sundance Documentary Composers Lab last summer and worked very closely with them for a few intense months. They were ideal collaborators- deeply attuned to musical nuance and with very specific ideas for the atmosphere they were trying to create. The music ended up sounding more like a science fiction score than standard documentary music – it underscores the bizarre contradictions at the heart of its story- young South Africans left behind in the post-Apartheid era who fight back against injustice. But please note – that is not my music in the trailer!
And of course, you may have noticed the new design of this website. Thanks to Dave Flaherty at Robador Web Design for his fine work!