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Music for theater

Hair

NYU Skirball Center, 2006

Theater Mitu and the NYU undergraduate theater program’s production of Hair was without a doubt the hottest stage piece I’ve had the privilege of being involved with. Director Ruben Polendo describes the show thus: “An orchestra of chaos and order—Hair explores the landscape of counterculture as history, as fact, as absence and as force. Propelled by undeniably powerful music—the piece challenges notions of nostalgia by creating an aesthetic of memory, of possibility and of resistance.”

Musical director Todd Almond and I reworked the songs to give them a 2006 feel: glitchy drum loops, Björkian synths and punk-rock orneriness.

Aquarius

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Easy To Be Hard

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Amy Gordon: Round She Goes

I did a custom hip-hop mashup for this rollerskating comedienne’s one-woman show.
City At Peace New York presents: What’s The Story
Cherry Lane Theatre, 2008

City At Peace New York presents: Revolution In Progress

Michael Shimmelman Performing Arts Center, 2006

Original musical dramas written and performed by diverse groups of teenagers from the five boroughs of NYC. I co-wrote and produced beats and tracks with Todd Almond.
Notes In Motion – Extract

Philip Coltoff Center, 2006

I played bells, shakers and other ambient percussion for choreographer Erin Hunter Jennings’ modern dance piece From Here To There.

True Stories From The ER That You’re Never Gonna Hear On Television

2003 New York City Fringe Festival

Rob Bronstein wrote and performed this tragicomic monologue about his real-life experiences with emergency medicine in Spalding Gray fashion, very physically animated on a bare stage. I accompanied the show onstage with semi-improvised guitar through a variety of digital effects – delay, ring modulator, and so on.